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Report No. 84-200 GOV
FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO THE CONTROL OF NARCOTICS AND
OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS, ENACTED 1961-1984: BRIEF SUMMARIES
By
Harry L. Hogan
Specialist in American National Government
Government Division
November 13, 1984
CONGRESSIONAL
RESEARCH
SERVICE
THE LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS
HV 5801 A
The Congressional Research Service works exclusively for
the Congress, conducting research, analyzing legislation, and
providing information at the request of committees. Members,
and their staffs.
The Service makes such research available, without partisan
bias, in many forms including studies, reports, compilations,
digests, and background briefings. Upon request, CRS
assists committees in analyzing legislative proposals and
issues, and in assessing the possible effects of these proposals
and their alternatives. The Service's senior specialists and
subject analysts are also available for personal consultations
in their respective fields of expertise.
ABSTRACT
This report contains sumnaries of enactments, treaties, and reorganization
plans, passed from 1961 through 1984, that have some clearly indicated relationship
either by specific reference or by virtue of legislative history—to the Federal
effort to prevent drug misuse through control of the supply of narcotics and other
dangerous drugs.
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CONTENTS
ABSTRACT iii
INTRODUCTION 1
BRIEF SUMMARIES OF PUBLIC LAWS
P.L. 67-228: Use of Interstate or Foreign Commerce for Racketeering
Purposes, Federal Crime 2
P.L. 87-274: Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act 2
P.L. 88-368: Juvenile Delinquency Act, Extension 2
P.L. 89-74: Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965 3
P.L. 89-793: Narcotic Addict Rehabiliation Act of 1966 (NARA) 3
Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective April 8, 1968 3
P.L. 90-351: Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968:
Title 1, Law Enforcement Assistance 3
P.L. 90-639: Increased Penalties for Dangerous Drug Offenses 4
P.L. 91-296: Marihuana and Health Reporting Act 4
P.L. 91-452: Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 4
P.L. 91-508: Financial Recordkeeping and Reporting of Currency
Transactions 6
P.L. 91-513: Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
(Controlled Substances Act; Controlled Substances Import and Export Act)... 7
P.L. 92-13: Increasing Appropriation Authorizations for the Commission on
Marihuana and Drug Abuse g
P.L. 92-31: Authorizing Certain Activities for Prevention and Control
of Juvenile Delinquency g
P.L. 92-73: Department of Agriculture—Environmental and Consumer
Protection Appropriations Act, 1972 g
P.L. 92-129: Selective Service Act Amendments g
P.L. 92-226: Foreign Assistance Act of 1971 9
P.L. 92-245, 92-246, 92-247: Authorizing U.S. Contributions to the
Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the
International Development Association 9
P.L. 92-255: Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 10
P.L. 92-293: Relating to Care for Narcotic Addicts on Probation, Parole
or Mandatory Release u
P.L. 92-381: Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act, Extension 11
P.L. 92-420: Increased Treatment Options under NARA 11
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P.L. 93-83: Crime Control Act of 1973 II
P.L. 93-87: Federal-Aid Highways Act of 1973 12
P.L. 93-189: Foreign Aseistance Act of 1973 12
P.L. 93-218: Disposal of Opium, National Stockpile 12
P.L. 93-281: Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974 13
P.L. 93-415: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974........ 13
P.L. 93-481: Controlled Substances Act Appropriation Authorization,
FY 75-77 14
P.L. 93-618: Trade Act of 1974 14
Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973 15
P.L. 94-237: Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972, Amendments.. 15
P.L. 94-329: International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control
Act of 1976 15
P.L. 94-419: Defense Department Appropriations Act, FY 1977 16
P.L. 94-455: Tax Reform Act of 1976 16
P.L. 94-503: Crime Control Act of 1976 17
S. Res. 578 (94th Cong.): Bail for Narcotics Offenders Ig
H. Res. 1350; House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control,
94th Congress Ig
P.L. 95-92: International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control
Act of 1977 jg
P.L. 95-115: Juvenile Justice Amendments of 1977 19
P.L. 95-137: Extending Appropriations Authorizations for the Enforcement
of the Controlled Substances Act 19
P.L. 95—142: Medicare—Medicaid Anti—Fraud and Abuse Amendments I9
P.L. 95-384: International Security Assistance Act of 1978 19
P.L. 95-410: Customs Procedural Reform and Simplication Act 20
P.L. 95-461: Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1978.....*.*.'.*.' 20
P.L. 95—481: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriation Act,
FY 1978......,......,,,....,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 21
P.L. 95-537: Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act
of 1978 21
P.L. 95-633: Psychotropic Substances Act of 1977 !!*.!!*.!!*.".!!!!!!*.! 21
H. Res. 77: Continuance of House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and
Control, 95th Congress 22
H. Con. Res. 265: Endorsing Hermosillo Declaration 22
P.L. 96-43: Speedy Trial Act Amendments of 1979 22
P.L. 96-53: International Development Cooperation Act of 1979 22
P.L. 96-92: International Security Assistance Act of 1979 23
P.L. 96-132: Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act.
FY 1980 * 23
P.L. 96-157: Justice System Improvement Act 23
P.L. 96-181: Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation
Amendments of 1979 ^ 24
P.L. 96-350: Possession or Transfer of a Controlled Substance^"Abroad or ""
on the High Seas, for Import Into the U.S 24
P.L. 96-359: Infant Formula Act of 1980 25
P.L. 96-509: Violent Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1980 25
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P.L. 96-528; Agriculture Appropriations , FY 1981 26
P.L. 96-533: International Security and Development Cooperation Act
of 1980 26
H. Res. 13: Continuance of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control, 96th Congress 26
P.L. 97-86: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
FY 1982 27
P.L. 97-113: International Security and Development Cooperation Act
of 1981 27
P.L. 97-116: Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981 28
P.L. 97-248: Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1983 28
H. Res. 13: Continuance of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control, 97th Congress 28
P.L. 98-151: Further continuing appropriations, FY 1984 28
P.L. 98-164; Department of State Authorization Act, FY 1984 and FY 1985 29
P.L. 98-236: Amendment to the Contract Services for Drug Dependent
Federal Offenders Act of 1978 29
P.L. 98-305: Controlled Substance Registrant Protection Act of 1984 29
P.L. 98-329: Banning Methaqualone 30
P.L. 98-411: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 30
P.L. 98-473 (Title II): Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984... 31
P.L. 98-499: Aviation Drug-Trafficking Control Act 35
P.L. 98-573: Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 36
P.L. 98-596: Criminal Fine Enforcement Act of 1984 36
H. Res. 49: Continuance of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control, 98th Congress 36
BRIEF SUMMARIES OF TREATIES
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 37
1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 37
Convention on Psychotropic Substances 37
FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO THE CONTROL OF NARCOTICS AND
OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS, ENACTED 1961-1984: BRIEF SUMMARIES
INTRODUCTION
During the past twenty-three years, Congress has enacted a large number
of laws intended, in whole or in part, to prevent the misuse of narcotics and
other dangerous drugs. Of these enactments, some are designed to reduce the
demand for such drugs—through treatment, education, and intervention
efforts—and others are aimed at reduction of drug supply—through regulation of
manufacture and distribution, by curbing illicit traffic, and by foreign
assistance for the control of drug production and trafficking abroad.
This compilation provides summaries of enactments, treaties and
reorganization plans, passed from 1961 through 1984, that have some clearly
indicated relationship—either by specific reference or by virtue of legislative
history—to the Federal effort to prevent drug misuse by means of supply
reduction. Measures for the prevention of drug misuse through demand reduction
are not included.
Appropriation laws are included only if they contain provisions bearing
on the substance of the activity or program for which funds are being
appropriated.
It should be noted that many measures of a general nature—such as broadly
directed anti-crime laws or laws authorizing the activities and funding of
general law enforcement agencies (Coast Guard, Customs Service, FBI, etc.)—may
also contribute to the drug control effort.
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BRIEF SUMMARIES OF PUBLIC LAWS
P.L, 87-228
Makes it a Federal crime, punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or 5 years
imprisonment or both, to travel or use communications facilities in interstate
or foreign commerce to carry on or to aid racketeering activity (including any
illegal organized enterprise involving narcotic drugs).
P.L. 87-274; Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act
Authorizes $10 million for fiscal year 1962 and each of the two succeeding
years to make grants to Federal. State, local and other public or nonprofit
agencies and organizations to pay part of the cost of carrying out projects
demonstrating or developing practices for the prevention, diminution, and
treatment of juvenile delinquency and holding promise of making a substantial
contribution to the solution of juvenile delinquency problems (including the
problem of juvenile drug abuse).
Provides technical assistance services to States, municipalities, and other
agencies—including investigations, reports and short term training.
Directs the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
in administering the Act, to consult with the President's Committee on Juvenile
Delinquency and Youth Crime on matters of general policy and procedure.
P.L. 88-368; Juvenile Delinquency Act Extension
Extends for an additional 2 years the Juvenile Delinquency and Youth
Offenses Control Act of 1961. with provision for a special demonstration project
for prevention and control of juvenile delinquency in the District of Columbia.
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P.L. 69-74; Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for special
controls over the manufacture and distribution of depressant and stimulant drugsincluding
increased recordkeeping and inspection requirements, control over
intrastate commerce in such drugs as well as interstate—and to make possession
of the drugs (other than by the user) illegal outside of the legitimate channels
of commerce.
P.L. 89-793; Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966
Provides for the possibility of civil commitment, for treatment, of narcotic
addicts charged with Federal law violations; provides for the possibility, under
certain circumstances, of civil commitment to Federal care (for treatment purposes)
of addicts \dio are not charged with any criminal offense; and provides for grants
to States to assist in developing and maintaining specialized services and programs
for addicts. Also, makes Federal marihuana law violators eligible for parole.
P.L. 89-794; Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective April 8, 1968
Merges the Bureau of Narcotics (Treasury Department) and the Bureau of Drug
Abuse Control (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) into a new agency,
the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in the Department of Justice.
P.L. 90-351; Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968:
Title I, Law Enforcement Assistance
Authorizes a program of formula grants to States for the purpose of improving
and strengthening law enforcement, which may include efforts to treat and
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rehabilitate narcotic addicts within State criminal justice systems; and also
authorizes a program of "discretionary" grants to States and localities for
implementation of "special emphasis" law enforcement activities, which also may
include drug abuse control projects.
P.L. 90-639; Increased Penalties for Dangerous Drug Offenses
Provides increased penalties for illegal trafficking in depressant and
stimulant drugs, Including LSD and other hallucinogens, and makes possession
of such drugs illegal (first offense a misdemeanor) unless obtained through a
valid prescription.
P.L. 91-296; Marihuana and Health Reporting Act
(Title V of the Hospital and Medical Facilities Construction and Modernization
Amendments of 1970). Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to
make an annual report to the Congress on the health consequences of marihuana use.
P.L. 91-452; Organized Crime Control Act of 1970
Title I : Provies for the summoning of special grand juries in major
metropolitan areas, for the purpose of investigating organized crime activities,
and authorizes such juries to issue reports upon conclusion of their terms.
Title I I ; Provides that, and prescribes the manner in which, a witness
in a Federal proceeding may be ordered to provide information after asserting
his privilege against self-incrimination, and defines the scope of the iimaunity
to be provided such witness with respect to information provided under an order.
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Title III; Codifies previously existing Federal civil contempt procedures
designed to deal with recalcitrant witnesses in grand jury and court proceedings,
authorizing civil contempt commitment until the court order is complied with,
and makes subject to Federal process witnesses who flee State investigative
commissions to avoid giving testimony.
Title IV; Abolishes the "two-witness" and "direct evidence" rules in the
trying of Federal perjury cases, and provides for the prosecution of persons
making contradictory statements under oath, without requiring proof of the
falsity of one of the statements.
Title Vi Authorizes the Attorney General to protect and maintain Federal
or State government witnesses in organized crime proceedings, along with their
families.
Title VI; Authorizes the taking of pretrail depositions of Federal
Government witnesses in criminal cases against persons believed to have
participated in organized crime activity, and the use of such depositions as
evidence in subsequent prosecutions.
Title VII; Provides that in any legal proceeding of the United States, the
consideration of claims that evidence is inadmissable because derived from the
illegal use of electronic, mechanical or other device shall be limited to those
cases where the alleged illegal act has taken place within five years of the
time the claim is made; and limits disclosure of information by the Government
in such cases to only such as is relevant to determination of admissibility of
the evidence and is in the interest of justice.
Title IX: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). Amends
title 18, U.S.C., to prohibit infiltration of the management of legitimate
organizations by racketeering activity or by the proceeds of rackeetering
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activity where interstate or foreign commerce is affected; provides for criminal
penaltiee (including forfeiture of property to the United States) upon conviction
of violations of the prohibitions; and provides for civil remedies (e.g., courtordered
divestiture of interest) to prevent and restrain violations of the
prohibition provisions.
Title_X: Provides for additional sentences for habitual, professional, or
organized crime offenders convicted of a Federal offense.
Title XII; Establishes a Commission on Individual Rights to conduct a
canprehensive study and review of Federal laws and practices relating to special
grand juries and to special offender sentencing authorized under the Act,
wiretapping and electronic surveillance, bail reform and preventive detention,
no-knock search warrants, and the accumulation of data on individuals by
Federal agencies—to report within 6 years of establishment.
P.L. 91-508
Financial Recordkeeping. Requires the maintenance of records by
banks, businesses and other U.S. financial institutions where such records would
be useful in criminal, tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings.
Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act. Among other
things, requires any individual involved in exporting or importing monetary
instruments exceeding $5,000 to report such transactions to the Secretary of
the Treasury. Provides for the seizure and forfeiture of monetary instruments
involved in a violation of the reporting requirement. Authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to make information from the required reports available to any
other Federal department or agency upon request.
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P.L. 91-513; Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
Title II; Controlled Substances Act. Replaces previous narcotic and
dangerous drug contol laws (except those relating to importation and exportation;
see Title III) with a single statute and makes certain changes in the substance
of these laws, including (1) establishment of five separate schedules for the
classification of all narcotics and other dangerous drugs ("controlled substances")
with the extent of regulation of each drug or substance varying according to its
assigned schedule (but with distinctions between narcotics and non-narcotics in
the two most restrictive schedules); (2) transfer to the Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare of authority to designate the classification of substances
proposed to be regulated under the Act, in the absence of control required by
treaty in effect upon enactment; (3) extension of existing law's licensing
requirements for narcotics manufacturers to apply to manufacturers of all
controlled drugs and to all distributors of such drugs; (4) a revision of penalties
among which is one making any first-time simple possession offense a misdemeanor,
regardless of the drug involved—and one eliminating all mandatory minimum
sentences, except in cases involving a special class of professional criminal
(one shown to have been involved in a "continuing criminal enterprise");
(5) provision of possibility of expungement of police record, after satisfactory
probation, in the case of a first offender convicted of illegal possession of
a narcotic drug or marihuana (such a possibility already existed for other drug
offenders); (6) provision for possibility of use of "no-knock" search warrants
by law enforcement officers engaged in enforcing the Act; and (7) establishment
of a commission to conduct a study of marihuana, and to make recommendations
regarding its control. For carrying out functions under Title II, authorizes
Justice Department appropriations of $60 million for FY 1972, $70 million
for FY 1973, and $90 million for FY 1974. Separately, authorizes annual
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appropriations of $6 million for specific purpose of increasing Federal narcotics
enforcement strength by 300 agents plus support personnel.
Title III;—Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. Replaces with a
single new provision of law the existing statutes relating to importation and
exportation of narcotics and dangerous drugs, conforming to the provisions of
Title II; and repeals other revenue laws relating to narcotics and marihuana.
P.L. 92-13
increases appropriation authorizations for the Commission on Marihuana
and Drug Abuse.
P.L. 92-31
E«.„da tha proviaion, ot tha Juvanlla Dalinquancy Pravantion and Control
Act of 1968 for an additional year, .»i eatabli.haa an rntardapart«ental Counoil
of Juvanlla Dalinquancy to coordinate all Federal delinquency control programs.
Authorizes appropriations of $75 million for FY 1972.
A;p;o":It:on;T"":;;^°^ AgricuUure-Fnvironmental and
Contains a provision barring the payment of Federal subsidies to farmers
who knowingly allow wild marihuana growing on their land to be harvested.
P.L. 92-129; Selective Service Act Amendment
contain, a proviaion dlracting ch. Armad Forcaa: to idantify drug dapandant
aarvicaman and to provid. tham .ith traatmant, to idantify pro.peotiva a.rvicaman
mho are drug ot alcohol dependent, rafua. tham entranoa into tha Armed Forcaa,
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and refer them to civilian treatment facilities; and to report to Congress
within 60 days of enactment as to implementation of the provisions and with
recommendations for additional legislative action determined necessary "to
combat effectively drug and alcohol dependence in the Armed Forces and to
treat and rehabilitate effectively any member found to be a drug or alcohol
dependent person.
P.L. 92"226! Foreign Assistance Act of 1971
Among other things, authorizes suspension of foreign assistance to countries
not cooperating in attempts to curb illegal drug traffic to the U.S., and creates
an aasistance program designed to encourage international narcotics control*.
P.L. 92-245. 92-246. 92-247
Authorizes U.S. contributions to and participation in the Asian Development
Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Development
Association, respectively. Each contains a provision instructing the U.S.
Executive Director for the relevant institution to vote against any loan (or
other utilization of the institution's funds) to any country with respect to
which the President has made a determination that its government has failed to
take adequate steps to prevent narcotics and other dangerous drugs from entering
the United States unlawfully or from being sold unlawfully to any U.S. Government
personnel or their dependents within the country's jurisdiction.
* Amended by P.L. 92-352 (State Department appropriations authorizations,
1972) to provide for a specific FY 1973 appropriation authorization of $42,500,000
for the assistance program.
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P.L. 92-255! Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
Title II; Establishes an office in the Executive Office of the President—
to be called the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention <SAOI>AP)--to
coordinate and direct Federal drug abuse control efforts related to rehabilitation
of drug-dependent persons, education, training, and research; nakes specific
appropriation* authorizations for the new office. Although "drug traffic
prevention" functions (law enforcement activities, diplomatic negotiations, and
foreign assistance for controlling drug production and traffic) are excluded
from the jurisdiction of the Office, provides that the Director of SAODAP may make
recommendations to the President in connection with any drug traffic prevention
function, and that he shall consult with and be consulted by all agencies involved
in such functions regarding their policies, priorities, and objectives. Also
specifically provides that the Director shall report, in writing to the President,
the conduct of any agency—be It concerned with abuse prevention or traffic
prevention—which "substantially impairs the effective conduct" of any other drug
function. Further provides that the Attorney General must give prior notice to
the SAODAP Director of any scheduling action (addition, removal, or transfer)
under the Controlled Substances Act. Specifies June 30, 1975, as the expiration
date for the Office.
Title III; Directs the President to develop a "comprehensive, coordinated
long-term Federal strategy" for all drug abuse prevention and drug traffic
prevention functions conducted, sponsored, or supported by the Federal Government.
Requires such strategy to be promulgated initially no later than nine months
after enactment of the title. To assist in preparing strategy, directs the
President to establish a Strategy Council, consisting at least of the Director
of SAODAP, the Attorney General, the Secretaries of HEW, State, and Defense,
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and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Provides that the strategy must be
reviewed, revised as necessary, and promulgated as revised at least once a year.
P.L. 92-293
Authorizes the Attorney General to provide care for narcotic addicts placed
on probation, released on parole, or mandatorily released (who are not eligible
for handling under the provisions of the Narcotic Addict Rehabiliation Act of
1966).
P.L. 92-381
Extending the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968
for 2 additional years. The Act provides for grants to assist States and
communities (agencies outside the juvenile justice system) in furnishing
diagnostic, treatment, rehabilitative, and preventive services to youths who
are delinquent or in danger of becoming delinquent—which services may include
drug abuse treatment or prevention projects.
P.L. 92-420
Amends the Narcotic Addict Rehabiliation Act of 1966 to increase treatment
options available through judicial disposition of addicts—especially to allow
methadone maintenance.
P.L. 93-83; Crime Control Act of 1973
Funds the law enforcement assistance program under the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for three additional years—authorizing appropriations
of $1 billion for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, and $1.25 billion for FY 1976.
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Reduces State-local matching requirements from 25 to 10 percent except for Part C
construction, and increases to 50 percent the local non-Federal share to be paid
by the States for both Part B planning and Part C action grants. Contains a
provision specifically requiring States receiving grants for correctional
programs to provide "necessary arrangements for the development and operation
of narcotic and alcoholism treatment programs in correctional institutions and
facilities and in connection with probation or other supervisory release programs
for all persons, incarcerated or on parole, who are drug addicts, alcoholics,
or alcohol abusers." Further contains a Part C amendment referring specifically
to "centers for treatment of narcotic addicts" as a possible component of a
comprehensive State plan.
P.L. 93-67; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973
Authorizes, among other changes, funding of research by public or private
agencies, institutions and individuals to explore the relationship between drug
use and highway safety.
P.L. 93-189; Foreign Assistance Act of 1973
Authorizes appropriations of $42.5 million for the international narcotics
control program established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1971, for each
of fiscal years 1974 and 1975, and contains a requirement that the President
transmit to Congress quarterly and semi-annual reports on all aspects of
U.S. international narcotics control programs and activities.
P.L. 93-218
Authorizes the disposal of opium from the National Stockpile.
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P.L. 93-281; Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the separate registration
of practitioners who use narcotic drugs in the treatment of addicts.
P.L. 93-415; Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
Replaces and generally expands the programs authorized by the old Juvenile
Delinquency Prevention Act. Establishes an Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention within the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration,
to administer a formula grant and contract program of assistance to States and
localities for the development of delinquency prevention and control programs
.(defined as meaning "any program or activity related to juvenile delinquency
prevention, control, diversion, treatment, rehabilitation, planning, education,
training, and research, including drug and alcohol abuse programs, the improvement
of the juvenile justice system and any program or activity for neglected,
abandoned, or dependent youth and other youth who are in danger of becoming
delinquent"). Authorizes appropriations of $75 million for FY 1975, $125 million
for FY 1976, and $150 million for FY 1977. Creates a Coordinating Council on
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to coordinate Federal juvenile
delinquency programs, and creates an Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention to recommend policy and management of Federal programs.
Establishes a National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
to serve as an information clearinghouse and training center. Authorizes the
Secretary of HEW to make grants and provide technical assistance to localities
and nonprofit private agencies for the development of facilities to serve the
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needs of runaway youth, outside the justice system—authorizing appropriations
for this purpose of $10 million for fiscal years 1975 through 1977. Extends the
old Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act for an additional year.
P.L. 93-481
Authorizes appropriations for enforcement of the Controlled Substances
Act by the Drug Enforcement Administration—$105 million for FY 1975, $175
million for FY 1976, and $200 million for FY 1977. Also, repeals the "no-knock"
search warrant provision of the Controlled Substances Act, and extends the
possibility of parole to all persons convicted of a narcotic or dangerous drug
offense under the Federal laws In force prior to enactment of the Controlled
Substances Act.
P.L. 93-618; Trade Act of 1974
Among other things, provides for duty-free treatment of any eligible article
from any "beneficiary developing country" designated by the President, no country
to be so designated if it fails to take adequate steps to cooperate with the U.S.
to prevent the unlawful entry into the U.S. of narcotic drugs and other substances
controlled under the Controlled Substances Act vdiich are produced, processed or
transported in that country. Also requires the President to submit a report at
least once each calendar year listing those foreign countries in *Aich narcotic
drugs and other controlled substances are produced, processed, or transported
for unlawful entry into the U.S., and requires that the report include a
description of the measures taken by these countries to prevent such activities.
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Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973
Consolidates and entrusts to a single new agency within the Justice
Department, to be known as the Drug Enforcement Administration, all Federal
activities relating to the prevention of illicit traffic in narcotics and
dangerous drugs.
P.L. 94-237; Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972, Amendments
Among other things, establishes, on a 3-year basis, an Office of Drug
Abuse Policy in the Executive Office of the President, to succeed the defunct
Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention in providing coordination and
policy formulation for Federal efforts to prevent and control drug abuse.
Authorizes $700,000 for FY 1976, $500,000 for the transition, and 2 million
for each of FY 1977 and 1978. Specifically authorizes certain research efforts
by NIDA, including those that relate to the development of non-addictive
substitutes for opium derivatives—with appropriation authorizations of
$7 million annually through FY 1978.
P.L. 94-329; International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act
of 1976
In addition to other matters, extends the "International Narcotics Control"
program under the Foreign Assistance Act, for another two years, with appropriation
authorizations of $40 million for FY 1976 and $34 million for FY 1977. Provides
that no part of the FY 1976 money may go to any country where illegal traffic in
opiates has been a significant problem, absent a Presidential determination and
certification to Congress that the country is "signficantly reducing the amount
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of illegal opiates entering the international market." Prohibits participation
by any U.S. official in any "direct police arrest action" in a foreign country
with respect to narcotics control efforts. Directs the President to make a
study of methods through which U.S.-funded narcotics control programs in foreign
countries might instead be assisted through international organizations.
P.L. 94-419: Defense Department Appropriations Act, FY 1977
Although the act contains no formal provision, the conference report
calls for an end to the random urinalysis testing programs of the armed services,
intended for the detection of drug abuse, by October 1, 1976, with funds saved
to be redirected to military alcohol abuse programs. The conference committee
also agreed that the Department should take "positive steps to make all commanders
aware of the fact that participating in a drug or alcohol abuse rehabilitation
program is, of itself, not to be considered grounds to deny reenlistment".
Moreover, the coimnittee indicated that treatment of civilian employees by the
military services should be limited to emergencies and to those places where
treatment is unavailable through public and private sources.
P.L. 94-455; Tax Reform Act of 1976
Establishes stricter rules of confidentiality with respect to Federal
income tax returns. Has the effect of limiting the circumstances under which
the Internal Revenue Service may make information available to other Federal
agencies.
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P.L. 94-503; Crime Control Act of 1976
Extends the law enforcement assistance program authorized by Che Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for an additional three years and
authorizes appropriations of $880 million for FY 1977 and $800 million for
each of FY 1978 and 1979 (along with an additional $15 million for each year
for a new community anti-crime program authorized by Sec. 103 of the act).
Provides that Che Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) is
under the policy direction and control of the Attorney General.
Provides for participation by State legislatures in the planning process.
Requires inclusion in the State Planning Agency (SPA) of a minimum of three
judicial members.
Provides for voluntary establishment of judicial planning committees to
develop annual State judicial plans, to be approved by SPAs and incorporated
into State plans.
Requires SPAs to allocate $50 million annually to such committees and
increases Part B planning block grants accordingly. Specifically authorizes
Part C funding for programs for stengthening Che courts, for preventing
crimes against the elderly, for ccnanunicy anti-crime programs, and for early
case assessment programs.
Requires that juvenile delinquency programs be allocated 19.15 percent of
Che total appropriation for LEAA.
Requires specific annual authorizations for Justice Department appropriations
beginning Oct. 1, 1978.
Authorizes the use of Part C funds for the "development of programs to
identify drug-dependent offenders (including alcoholics, drug addicts, and drug
abusers)"; and requires all States to establish "procedures for effective
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coordination between State planning agencies and single State agencies designated
under section (409)(e)(l) of the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 . . .
in responding to the needs" of such offenders.
Requires the Institute of Criminal Justice, in consultation with the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, to give research priority to determining the
relationship between drug abuse and crime and "to evaluate the success of the
various types of drug treatment programs in reducing crime."
Provides for the removal from the Federal civil service system of all
upper—level supervisory personnel in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
S. Res. 578 (94th Cong.)
Urges Federal judges to set more realistic bail for major narcotics law
offenders.
H. Res. 1350
Provides for the establishment and funding, during the 94th Congress, of
the House Select Comnittee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, for the purposes of
studying and reviewing the problems of narcotics abuse and control.
P.L. 95-92; International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1977
Among other things, extends the appropriation authorisation for the
International Narcotics Control Program under sec. 482 of the Foreign Assistance
Act for one additional year (FY 1978), at the level of $39 million.
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P.L, 95~115; Juvenile Justice Amendments of 1977
Extends and expands the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974, authorizing appropriations of $150 million in FY 1978, $175 million in
FY 1979, and $200 million in FY 1980. Relaxes certain stringent requirements
of the Act. Increases appropriation authorizations for the Runaway Youth Act.
P.L. 95-137
Extends appropriation authorizations for the enforcement of the Controlled
Substances Act for two additional years, $188 million for FY 1978 and $215 million
for FY 1979. Repeals the annual $6 million authorization under section 103 of
the Act.
P.L. 95-142; Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments
Contains a number of provisions for the general purpose of preventing
fraud and abuse under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including: stricter
penalties, requirement of the suspension of practitioners convicted of criminal
offenses, establishment of a uniform reporting system for health facilities,
and incentives for establishment of State Medicaid fraud units.
P.L. 95-384: International Security Assistance Act of 1978
Among other things: authorizes appropriations for the International
Narcotics Control Program (section 482 of the Foreign Assistance Act) for one
additional year (FY 1979), at the level of $40 million. Amends the "Mansfield
Amendment" of 1976 to provide specifically that no U.S. officer or employee
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may interrogate or be present at the interrogation of any U.S. person arrested
in any foreign country with respect to narcotics control efforts without the
written consent of that person. Also prohibits the use of any funds authorized
by the section in any program involving the spraying of a herbicide to eradicate
marihuana plants if the use of the herbicide is likely to cause serious harm to
the health of persons who may use or consume the sprayed marihuana, but provides
further that the prohibition does not apply when the herbicide is used in
conjunction with another substance that will provide a clear warning to potential
users. Establishes procedures under which the use of a herbicide in a marihuana
eradication program funded under the section is to be evaluated by the Department
of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency, to ascertain tdiether the
prohibition should be invoked; also requires the Secretary of State to submit
a comprehensive report to Congress each year on efforts taken to ensure compliance
with the requirements of the herbicide provisions and to prevent the spraying
of marihuana with herbicides harmful to humans.
P.L. 95-410; Customs Procedural Reform and Simplication Act
Among other things, amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase from $2,500
to $10,000 the maximum value of property (seized in connection with a violation
of U.S. customs laws) that is subject to administrative as opposed to judicial
forfeiture; makes by reference the same change with respect to all seizures
made under the Controlled Substances Act.
P.L. 95-461; Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1978
Among other things, extends specific authorization for support of certain
areas of research—including the creation, development, and testing of synthetic
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analgesics, antitussives and other drugs which are (A) non-addictive or (B) less
addictive than opium or its derivatives, to replace opium and its derivatives in
medical use.
P.L. 95-481: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriation Act, FY 1978
Contains a provision placing a $3 million ceiling on U.S. contributions,
during FY 1978, to the United Rations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.
P.L. 95-537; Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act of 1978
Transfers from the Justice Department to the Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts the authority to contract for aftercare services for released
Federal offenders trho are drug dependent, thus consolidating responsibilities
for supervisory care for such offenders in a single agency.
P.L. 95-633; Psychotropic Substances Act of 1977
Amends the Controlled Substances Act and other laws to meet obligations
under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances relating to regulatory controls
on the manufacture, distribution, importation, and exportation of psychotropic
substances. Provides for tighter controls on the manufacture and distribution
of the drug phencyclidine (PCP), including increased penalties for illicit
trafficking, and places certain restrictions on commerce in the PCP ingredient
piperidine. Also provides for seizure and forfeiture of moneys and other
negotiable instruments furnished or intended to be furnished in exchange for
illicitly transferred controlled substances.
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H. Res, 77
Provides for the continuance, during the 95th Congress, of the House Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
H« Con. Res. 265
Endorses the Hermosillo Declaration ("on Combating Traffic in Drugs at
the International Level", adopted by the seventeenth Mexico-United States
Interparliamentary Conference, May 1977) and urges the President to encourage
other nations to cooperate in an international effort to eradicate narcotics
trafficking and to eliminate illicit production of opium.
P.L. 96-43; Speedy Trial Act Amendments of 1979
Amends the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 to modify a number of requirements,
particularly to extend the period, from the time of arraignment, during which
a trial must commence. Specifically with respect to offenders idio might be
subject to the provisions of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966,
extends the periods of delay that are excluded in computing the time limits
for the filing of an information or indictment, and the commencement of trial,
to include delay resulting from any proceeding or deferral or prosecution
pursuant to that act.
P.L. 96-53; International Development Cooperation Act of 1979
Among other things, requires agencies that plan development assistance
programs for countries in which there is illicit narcotics cultivation to
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give priority consideration to programs that would reduce such cultivation
by stimulating broader development opportunities.
P.L. 96-92; International Security Assistance Act of 1979
In addition to other provisions, extends the appropriation authorisation
for the International Narcotics Control program under section 482 of the Foreign
Assistance Act. Extends the program through FY 1980, a 1-year extension,
authorising $51.7 million, with $16 million earmarked for the Republic of
Colombia. Provides that contributions for the U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control
may not exceed $3 million or 25 percent of total member-nation contributions.
Amends the anti-paraquat provision of 1978 to make clear that it is not
intended to jeopardize programs aimed at reducing narcotics traffic.
P.L. 96-132: Department of Justice Appropriation Authorisation Act.
Year 1980
Authorizes appropriations for the Justice Department for FY 1980. For
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), authorizes $198.3 million. Amends
the Controlled Substances Act (1) to authorize DEA to pay tort claims arising
in foreign countries in connection with the agency's operations, such payment
to be made in accordance with the Federal Tort Claims Act, and (2) to repeal
the requirement that an award of compensation be made to informers in accordance
with the customs laws.
P.L. 96-157; Justice System Improvement Act
Amends Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. Establishes
a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
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TransferB the research operations of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
(LEAA) to the new NIJ and its statistics operations to the new BJS. Places all
three entities—LEAA. NIJ, and BJS--under a new Justice Department agency, the
Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics (OJARS). Authorizes $750
million per year for FY 1980 through 1983 for the major assistance activities,
education and training, and administration; $25 million for each of these
fiscal years for research; $25 million for each year for statistical activities;
and S25 million for each year for a community anti-crime program.
P.L. 96-181t Drug Abuse Prevention. Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendments
of 1979
Among other things, transfers to the President the responsibilities of the
former Office of Drug Abuse Policy. Expands membership of the Strategy Council
on Drug Abuse to include appropriate State and local government officials.
Extends specific authorization for the National Institute on Drug Abuse to
conduct or support research on designated subjects, including the development
of synthetic analgesics, antitussives and other drugs which are non-addictive
or less addictive than opium or its derivatives, to replace opium and its
derivatives in medical use.
P.L. 96-350
Makes it unlawful for any person on board a U.S. vessel or a vessel subject
to U.S. jurisdiction—or for a U.S. citizen on any vessel—to possess, manufacture,
distribute, dispense, or unlawfully import a controlled substance. Also makes it
unlawful for any person anywhere to possess a controlled substance intending or
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knowing that it will be unlawfully imported into the United States. Provides for
first offense penalties of up to 15 years imprisonment, or a fine of up to $25,000,
or both, and of double those maximums for a second or subsequent offense.
P.L. 96-359: Infant Formula Act of 1980
Among other things, contains provisions (1) to increase the maximum penalty
for trafficking in marihuana in amounts exceeding 1,000 lbs., to 15 years in
prison, or $125,000, or both (double for a second offense); (2) to extend the
1978 amendments to the Controlled Substances Act relating to the commerce in
the POP constituent piperidine; and (3) to direct the Attorney General to make
available to the States additional information on the extent of, and on trends
in, the abuse of drugs.
P.L. 96-509; Violent Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1980
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974 to include the finding that the justice system should give additional
attention to violent crimes committed by juveniles, particularly in the areas
of identification, apprehension, speedy adjudication, sentencing, and
rehabilitation. Repeals declarations of purpose relating to the establishment
of training programs and centralized research and information services dealing
with juvenile delinquency.
Title II; Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974, to specify, among other things, that the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention shall be (1) under the general authority of the Attorney
General and (2) under the direction of an Administrator with final authority
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over specified administrative functions. Provides for a 3-year planning cycle
for formula grants. Requires that 5 years after the enactment of the amendments,
States receiving funds may no longer detain juveniles in jails or lockups housing
adult offenders. Provides for an emphasis on removing juveniles from jails and
lockups, on serious juvenile offenders, on the training of personnel to deal
with offenders with learning disabilities, on exemplary activities, and on the
implementation of juvenile justice standards. Authorizes appropriations of
$200 million each year for FY 1981-1984.
P.L. 96-528
Makes appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
programs for FY 1981 and for other purposes. Among other things, prohibits the
use of funds appropriated pursuant to the act for making production or other
pa3nnent8 to persons or corporations that harvest—for illegal use—marihuana or
other prohibited drug-producing plants.
P.L. 96-533; International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980
Among other things, extends the appropriation authorization for the
International Narcotics Control program under section 482 of the Foreign
Assistance Act. For FY 1981 authorizes $38.6 million. Makes available certain
aircraft, communications equipment and operational support to the Colombian
anit-narcotics enforcement program.
H. Res. 13
Provides for the continuance, in the 96th Congress, of the House Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
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P.L. 97-86; Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for FY 1982
Among other things, by way of clarifying the Posse Comitatus statute,
authorizes certain kinds of cooperation by the Armed Services with civilian law
enforcement authorities for specified purposes, including enforcement of the
Controlled Substances Act.
P.L. 97-113; International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981
Among other things, authorizes appropriations for the International Narcotics
Control program under section 482 of the Foreign Assistance Act: $37.7 million
for each of the fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Repeals the provision of the act
that had prohibited the use of assistance funds for drug crop eradication efforts
using an herbicide shown to be harmful to human health; however, requires the
Secretary of State to inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
of the use or intended use, by any country or international organization, of
any herbicide to eradicate marihuana under a program receiving assistance.
Further requires the Secretary of HHS to monitor the health impact of the use
of marihuana that has been sprayed by an herbicide and to report to Congress
any evidence of harmful effects. Allows funds earmarked for Colombia under
the FY80 appropriation to be used for marihuana eradication (with paraquat).
Urges the President to spend at least $100,000 to develop a substance that
clearly warns persons who may use or consume marihuana that it has been sprayed
with the herbicide paraquat or other herbicide harmful to the health of such
persons. Requires such a substance, if developed, to be used with the herbicide.
Allows funds earmarked for Colombia under the FY80 appropriation to be
used for marihuana eradication (with paraquat).
Directs the President to make an annual report to Congress on U.S. policy
for establishing an international strategy to prevent narcotics trafficking.
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P.L. 97-116! Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981
Among other things, permits the waiver of simple marihuana possession
offenses, involving 30 grams or less, as grounds for deportation of the alien
spouse, child, or parent or a United States citisen or permanent resident.
P»L. 97-248; Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
Contains provisions designed to remove impediments to Internal Revenue
Service cooperation with other Federal law enforcement agencies. Specifically,
decentralizes authority to apply for tax disclosure orders, eliminates
"Catch-22" standards for acceptable applications for disclosure orders, and
substitutes the United States for Individual Federal employees in civil damage
actions for unauthorized disclosure of tax information.
H. Res 13
Provides for the continuance, in the 97th Congress, of the House Select
COTsnittee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
P.L. 98-67 (Title II): Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act
Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for all "eligible
articles" from any Caribbean country specifically designated under the act
unless that country fails to meet certain enumerated requirements. One
requirement is that the country must take adequate steps to cooperate with the
United States to prevent narcotic drugs and other controlled substances (as
listed in 21 U.S.C. 812) produced, processed, or transported in such country
froB entering the U.S. unlawfully.
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P.L. 98-151; Further continuing appropriations, FY 1984
Contains a prohibition on the provision of assistance, through programs
funded under the Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act as provided for in
P.L. 98-377 and P.L. 98-63 and out of funds appropriated under the act, to any
country during any three-month period (after October 1, 1983) following a
certification by the President to the Congress that the government of such
country is failing to take adequate measures to prevent narcotic drugs or
other controlled substances (cultivated, produced, or processed in that
country, or transported through it) from being sold illegally within the
jurisdiction of such country to U.S. Government personnel or their
dependents or from entering the United States unlawfully.
P.L. 98-164: Department of State Authorization Act, FY 1984 and FY 1985
Contains provisions making U.S. assistance to any country that is a
major producer of opium, coca, or marihauana contingent on reductions by that
country in the levels of such production. Requires the President to submit,
annually, a report on U.S. efforts to establish and encourage an International
strategy to prevent the illicit cultivation and production of, and traffic
in, narcotics and other controlled substances. Specifies that reports shall
identify source countries and determine the "maximum reductions in illicit
drug production which are achievable" In primary source countries; sulxnission
of report is to be followed by consultations between the Administration and
Congress on appropriate steps to be taken with respect to delinquent countries.
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P.L. 98-236
Affleads the Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act of
1978 to extend the authorisation of appropriations, through FY 1986, for
contracts with public or private agencies for the supervision of released drug
offenders.
P»L. 98-305: Controlled Substance Registrant Protection Act of 1984
Makes it a Federal crime to rob or burgle a pharmacy or other dispenser
(registered under the Federal Controlled Substances Act to manufacture,
distribute or dispense the drugs regulated under that statute) of a substance
controlled under the Federal Controlled Substances Act ^ (1) the replacement
cost of the substance is at least $500, (2) the person committing the
offense traveled in interstate or foreign commerce or used any facility in
commerce to facilitate the act, or (3) another person was killed or suffered
significant bodily injury as a result of the offense. Authorizes penalties
of up to 20 years Imprisonment or $25,000, or both; where bodily injury
occurs, up to 25 years or up to $35,000, or both; where death occurs, up
to life imprisonment or $50,000, or both.
P.L. 98-329
Transfers the drug methaqualone from Schedule II to Schedule I under the
Controlled Substances Act, thus banning it except for specifically approved
experimental purposes.
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P.L; 98-4U; Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judlclarv. and
Related Agencies Appropriation Act. 1985
In addition to making appropriations for the Justice Department for FY
1985, provides that the authorities contained in P.L. 96-132, "The Department
of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1980", shall remain
In effect until the termination date of the Act or until the effective date
of a Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act (for FY 1985),
whichever is earlier. Also extends exemptions, for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, from certain restrictions on undercover investigative operations,
and authorizes their application to similar operations of the Drug Enforcement
Administration—requiring from both agencies detailed audits and reports on such
operations.
P.L. 98-473 (Title II); Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
Chapter I; Bail. Amends the Bail Reform Act to (1) permit Federal
courts to consider the factor of potential danger to the community in
determining whether to release an accused Individual pending trial (or appeal,
if convicted) or, if release is appropriate, in determining the conditions for
release and (2) increase penalties for Jumping bail.
Chapter lit Sentencing Reform. For development of a more uniform and
predictable Federal sentencing system, establishes a sentencing commission to
formuate guidelines for use by the courts when determining sentences.
Eliminates parole and allows only limited "good time" credits. Requires
guidelines to reflect possible effects of sentences on Federal prison
capacities. Specifies that departure from guidelines must be explained in
writing by the court. Repeals Youth Corrections Act.
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Chapter III; Forfeiture. Amends both the Controlled Substances Act and
the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Imposes the
sanction of criminal forfeiture for all felony drug offenses. Expands the
scope of previously authorized criminal forfeiture sanctions under RICO to
Include the forfeiture of racketeering activity proceeds. Raises the ceiling
(to §100,000) on the value of property subject to administrative forfeiture.
Creates two funds from forfeiture proceeds to maintain seized property and to
pay for certain law enforcement expenses and in other ways facilitates
forfeitures in drug-related and racketeering cases. [See also Chapter XXIII,
below.]
Chapter V; Drug Enforcement Admendments.
Part A; Controlled Substance Penalties. Amends both the Controlled
Substances Act (CSA) and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA)
to (1) Increase the maximum prison penalties for trafficking in large amounts
of an opiate, cocaine, phencyclldlne (PCP). or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),
(2) increase the level of maximum fines that may be imposed as penalties for
trafficking in any^ controlled substance, (3) Increase prison penalties and fines
for trafficking in any amount of most non-narcotlc substances in CSA Schedules
I or II (such as LSD and PCP), (4) Increase penalties for trafficking in
marihuana In amounts ranging from 50 to 454 kilograms, (5) permit State and
foreign drug convictions to be considered under the enhanced sentencing
provisions applying to repeat drug offenders, and (6) create a new offense under
the Act of distributing a controlled substance in or on, or within a thousand
feet of, the real property comprising a public or private elementary school,"
a first offense being subject to double the maximum penalty for a regular
trafficking offense and a second offense being eubject to a mandatory minimum
of three years Imprisonment and a life-time maximum. [See also Chapter XXIII,
below.]
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Part B: Diverson Control Amendments. Amends the Controlled Substances
Act to (1) permit the Attorney General to deny an application for practitioner
registration if he determines that its Issuance would be inconsistent with the
public interest, (2) make it easier to revoke or suspend any registration under
the CSA (manufacturers, importers, distributors, and practitioners), (3)
eliminate some practitioner recordkeeping requirements and tighten others,
(4) simplify practitioner registration requirements (allowing a three-year
life-span if determined appropriate), (5) clarify the control of isomers, (6)
establish new emergency authority for the Attorney General to place under
temporary controls any uncontrolled substance not being marketed in the U.S. for
medical purposes—including registration, recordkeeping, and criminal sanctions
for violation, (7) authorize a program of grants to State and local governments
($6 million a year for FY 1985 and FY 1986) to assist them in suppressing
diversion of controlled substances from legitimate medical, scientific and
commercial channels, and (8) expand Import permit requirements to include the
importation of certain non-narcotlc Schedule III substances.
Chapter VI. Division I: Justice Assistance. Among other things,
provides for Federal funding, through matching block grants to the States, of
State and local law enforcement programs "of proven effectiveness or which
offer a high probability of improving the functions of the criminal justice
system and which focus primarily on violent crime and serious offenders."
Specifically indicates drug trafficking as one of the "critical problems of
crime" that funded projects may address. Authorizes appropriations of §70
million for FY 1985.
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Chapter VI. Division II; Amendments to the Juvenile Justice and
Prevention Act of 1974. Reauthorlres a program of assistance to
States for the development of programs to combat juvenile delinquency, and of
alternatives to Incarceration of juveniles.
Chapter IX; Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act Amendments.
Designed principally to prevent the laundering of money by drug traffickers
and organized crime figures, (1) prohibits the attempted transport, out of the
U.S., of monetary instruments exceeding $10,000 (as well as actual transport,
as under previously existing law, the minimum being Increased from the previous
$5,000) absent the prior filing of a report with the Treasury Department, (2)
allows customs officials to search, without a warrant, for unreported amounts
of cash brought Into or carried out of the country, (3) authorizes rewards to
informants providing original Information on a major violation of the Act, and
(4) Increases the penalties and fines for failure to keep the records and
file the reports required under the Act.
Chapter X; Miscellaneous Violent Crime Amendments
Part A; Murder-for-Hire and Violent Crimes In Aid of Racketeering.
Extends previously existing Federal jurisdiction over contract killings and
violence to cover those Involving travel In interstate or foreign commerce or
using a facility of commerce, and also those committed for anything of pecuniary
value received from a "racketeering" enterprise.
Par^. Creates a new offense of soliciting the commission of a violent
Federal felony.
Chapter XI; Serious Non-violent Offenses
Part A. Makes it an offense to warn anyone that he or his property is
about to be searched by Federal authorities.
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Part H. Prohibits the possession of certain contraband articles—Including
any narcotic drug—by a Federal prison Inmate.
Chapter XII; Procedural Amendments
Part A. Prosecution of Certain Juveniles as Adults. Provides for Federal
prosecution, as adults, of certain Juvenile defendants charged with serious
Federal drug offenses or crimes of violence.
Part B. Wiretap Amendments. Authorizes emergency wiretaps without a court
order in certain specified situations (Including illegal currency transactions
and offenses related to victim-witness Intimidation).
Chapter XIII. National Narcotics Act
Creates a National Drug Enforcement Policy Board, an Interagency council
to coordinate Federal drug law enforcement activities, under the chairmanship
of the Attorney General. Gives chairman authority to approve budget
reprogramming requests of any agency. If drug law enforcement is Involved, and
allows him to direct the reassignment of personnel, with the concurrence of the
head of the agency affected.
Chapter XXIII
Authorizes an alternative sentence of a fine of up to twice the proceeds
from a violation of the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances
Import and Export Act, or the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization
chapter of title 18, U.S. Code. Authorizes the proceeds of forfeited property
to be placed In a fund for the maintenance of seized property, the purchase of
evidence, and the retro-flttlng of seized and forfeited conveyances for law
enforcement purposes.
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P»L» 98-499; Aviation Drug-Trafficking Control Act
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to (1) require the mandatory
revocation, for up to five years, of the airman certificate of someone convicted
of a violation of a State or Federal law relating to controlled substances,
and (2) provide for additional penalties for the transportation of controlled
substances by aircraft*
P.L. 98-573; Trade and Tariff Act of 1984
Contains amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 to raise the ceiling (from
$10,000 to $100,000) on the value of property subject to administrative
forfeiture (unless contested) because of its Involvement in a violation of
U.S. customs laws and to remove entirely the ceiling In the case of conveyances
used to import, export, transport, or store any substance covered by the
Controlled Substance Act. Raises (from $250 to $2,500) the amount of the bond
required from a claimant who contests such forfeiture and who seeks a Judicial
hearing and determination. [With the exception of the amount of bond required
in contested cases, the provisions are essentially the same as those of Fart D
of Chapter III of P.L. 98-473, the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.]
P.L. 98-596t Criminal Fine Enforcement Act of 1984
Amends Che Federal criminal code to improve the collection of fines and to
increase the maximum fine level for certain offenses.
H. Res. 49
Provides for the continuance, in the 98th Congress, of the House Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
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BRIEF SUMMARIES OF TREATIES
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961
[Entered into force for the United States June 24, 1967). Replaces previous
multilateral international treaties for the control of narcotic drug traffic with
a single new instrument, designed to simplify and strengthen the existing machinery
of regulation. [TIAS 6298]
1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961
Increases the authority of the International Narcotics Control Board.
[26 UST 1439; TIAS 8118]
Convention on Psychotropic Substances
[Entered into force for the United States April 16, 1980]. Provides for the
international control of depressant, stimulant, and hallucinogenic substances not
subject to the Single Connection on Narcotic Drugs. [TIAS 9725]
COORDINATIOK OF FEDERAL EFFORTS TO CONTROL ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFIC
(ARCHIVED—01/10/85)
UPDATED 12/31/84
BY
Harry Hogan
Government Division
Congressional Research Service
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CONGRESSIONAL
RESEARCH
SERVICE
THE LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS
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ISSUE DEFINITION
How best to coordinate the Federal Government's multi-agency efforts to
curb illicit traffic in dangerous drugs has once again become an issue of
major interest to the Congress. Critics of the current Administration's
anti-drug program contend that it lacks an overall strategy and that it
suffers from the absence of a central mechanism for the formulation of
general policy as well as for the broad direction of operations. A number of
bills pending in the 98th Congress are designed to remedy the perceived
deficiency, through the establishment of an agency with explicit authority
over the development and implementation of all Federal government efforts to
control drug traffic. Frequently described in the press as "drug czar"
proposals, these measures have been generally opposed by the Reagan
Administration on the grounds that such an agency is unnecessary and
potentially disruptive? however, a version enacted during the closing hours
of the 98th Congress was the result of a compromise acceptable to the
President.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY AKALYSIS
I. Immediate Background
II. Historical Perspective
III. Alternatives to a Drug Czar
IV. Summary Discussion
I. Immediate Background
On Jan. 14, 1983, President Reagan exercised a pocket veto on an omnibus
crime control bill passed during the closing hours of the 97th Congress. His
principal objection to the measure was that it contained a provision for a
so-called "drug czar" office, to be known as the "Office of the Director of
National and International Drug Operations and Policy." The agency, the
director and deputy director of which were to be subject to Senate approval,
would have been authorized to ---
(A) develop, review, implement, and enforce U.S.
Government policy with respect to illegal
drugs ;
(B) direct and coordinate all U.S. Government
efforts to halt the flow into, and sale and
use of illegal drugs within the U.S.;
(C) develop in concert with other Federal
entities concerned with drug control the
budgetary priorities and allocations of
those entities with respect to illegal
drugs; and
(D) coordinate the collection and dissemination
of information necessary to implement U.S.
policy with respect to illegal drugs.
In connection with the drug czar provision, the President's memorandum of
disapproval stated:
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The creation of another layer of bureaucracy
within the Executive Branch would produce friction,
disrupt effective law enforcement, and could threaten
the integrity of criminal investigations and
prosecutions — the very opposite of what its
proponents apparently intend.
He contended moreover, that "although [the provision's] aim — with which I
am in full agreement — is to promote coordination, this can be and is being
achieved through existing administrative structures."
The President's assertion that coordination is being achieved under the
present system is challenged in a report recently issued by the General
Accounting Office. (Federal Drug Interdiction Efforts Need Strong Central
Oversight; GGD-83-52; June 13, 1983). Focusing on drug interdiction, the GAO
found that, although the level of cooperation among the principal agencies
concerned has been increasing, the fragmentation of authority and
responsibility "has a certain amount of inefficiency and interagency conflict
built in." In particular, the GAO points out, "congressional oversight and
executive branch resource allocation decisions relative to drug interdiction
are difficult under these circumstances." Accordingly, the agency recommended
that the President
— direct the development of a more definitive
Federal drug strategy that stipulates the
roles of the various agencies with drug
enforcement responsibilities and
-- malce a clear delegation of responsibility
to one individual to oversee Federal drug
enforcement programs.
II. Historical Perspective
For close to lOO years the Federal government has been involved in efforts
to curb the non-therapeutic use of dangerous drugs. Beginning in 1887, with
enactment of a law that forbade the importation of opium into the United
States by subjects of the Emperor of China, a long series of statutes has
created a major Federal role in the regulation of drug commerce and in the
enforcement of restrictions designed to prevent the abuse of drugs.
As a matter of course, the responsibility for administering and enforcing
Federal drug control laws has been divided. Since many of the most
restricted drugs enter the country illegally from abroad, the agencies
charged with policing the national borders — the Customs Service, the Coast
Guard, and the Border Patrol — have an important part to play. Regulation
of the domestic drug industry is the province of both the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) and the Food and Drug Administration, while in addition
the DEA has authority for the investigation of violations involving dangerous
drugs and for liaison with foreign law enforcement officials in matters
pertaining to dangerous drug control.
Other agencies with drug control responsibilities are: the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI); the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters in the
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State Department; the Federal Aviation Agency; the Internal Revenue Service;
the Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics (OJARS); the Agency
for International Development; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
and the Department of Agriculture. Additionally, there is t-he necessary
participation of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department and of U.S.
Attorneys.
Especially during the past 15 years, the level of the Federal commitment
to control of drug abuse has increased substantially. Spending for "law
enforcement" related to this purpose rose from $37 million in FY 1969 to
approximately Si.05 billion in FYSS. The same years saw the initiation, or
significant increase, of Federal programs to reduce the demand for drugs
through treatment, education and primary prevention.
Calls for increased coordination are not a new occurrence. Along with a
number of other approaches, the "overlord" system itself has in fact been
tried — in a structure established, in 1971, by former President Richard
Kixon.
In declaring a "War on Drug Abuse" President Nixon was responsible for a
number of initiatives directed at the problem that causing such a high degree
of public concern at the time. Among them was the creation of the Special
Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), headed by a director which
the press at that time labelled "the drug czar." Placed in the Executive
Office of the President, the agency was authorized to supervise and be
responsible for all Federal drug abuse programs involving prevention,
education, treatment, training and research.
In initial discussions at the White House, the Nixon drug czar plan had
envisioned the inclusion of law enforcement functions within the scope of the
office's concerns. however, reportedly it was argued with persuasion -- by
the Justice Department and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
that a director who would have the necessary stature in both the law
enforcement and the treatment-prevention communities could not be found. It
was further argued, also with effect, that of these two general areas the
treatment-prevention side was at that time in greater need of central
direction.
In 1972, the year following Presidential establishment of the new agency.
Congress provided a statutory base, for a 3-year period, through the Drug
Abuse Office and Treatment Act. Two key congressional findings noted in the
legislation were as follows:
The effectiveness of efforts by State \nd local
governments and by the Federal Government to
control and treat drug abuse in the United States
has been hampered by a lack of coordination among
the states, between States and localities, and
throughout the Federal establishment.
Control of drug abuse requires the development of
a comprehensive, coordinated long-term Federal
strategy that encompasses both effective law
enforcement against illegal drug traffic and
effective health programs to rehabilitate victims
of drug abuse.
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Although finding substantial support for the addition of law enforcement
efforts to the coordinative jurisdiction of SAODAP, a fact reflected in the
above findings, Congress acceded to the Administration view that the office
should have no effective power over drug law enforcement agencies. The
exclusion of such authority continued, during the years of the agency's
operation, to draw criticism.
Despite the existence of SAODAP, conflicts and the lach of a unified
objective continued in evidence, and in 1973 — 2 years after the
coordinating agency had been created -- the National Commission on Marihuana
and Drug Abuse could still find that in SAODAP's designated sphere of
operation "the fragmentation of authority threatens to defeat its attempt to
organize federal and state activities into an integrated response, under
clear and understandable policy guidelines."
The National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, established by an act
of Congress and partially appointed by President Nixon, had been given the
task of conducting two comprehensive studies -- one on the country's
marihuana problem and what to do about it and the second on the problem of
drug abuse in general and the appropriate national response. In its detailed
report on the general drug problem, the Commission described the development,
during the preceding five years, of a "drug abuse industrial complex" --
marked by duplication of effort, uncertainty of direction and a lack of
interagency coordination." Above all, the Commission noted the emergence of
a large Federal drug bureaucracy, "displaying the common propensity of
bureaucratic infrastructures to turn short-term programs into never-ending
projects."
Despite the fact that coordination and a unified policy were still eluding
the government when the National Commission wrote its report, the panel gave
SAODAP credit for making progress in that direction. However, the Commission
recommended a far more radical approach to the coordination problem than any
proposed before or since: the creation of a single agency with responsibility
for all primarily drug-related functions, both for the formulation of policy
and for actual day-to-day operations. The recommendation envisioned that the
agency director would have sub-cabinet rank but would nevertheless report
directly to the President.
Although supporting the concept of a single drug control agency -- with
the suggestion that it be called the Controlled Substances Administration
the National Commission acknowledged two alternatives:
(1) that the system in effect at th.g time might be
continued "in the hope that SAODAP will more
effectively utilize its statutory authority
to bring some order out of administrative
chaos" or
(2) that SAODAP could be retained but given
specifically detailed program authority as
well as the budgetary control it already had.
The 3-year authorization for SAODAP expired in 1975. The Ford
Administration took the position that the agency's duration should not be
extended. The emergency , situation that had called for the extraordinary
measure no longer existed, the Administration maintained, and therefore the
business of directing Federal treatment and prevention efforts should be left
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to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which had been established by the
same statute as SAODAP. General policy concerning all drug matters were to
be developed by several Cabinet committees as well as by the Strategy Council
on Drug Abuse, also created by the SAODAP law.
In spite of the Ford policy, SAODAP never entirely faded away. In 1976,
Congress amended the SAODAP statute to establish a successor agency the
Office of Drug Abuse Policy (ODAP) -- on a scaled-down basis, the new office
being smaller in size than SAODAP and lacking its powerful tool of budget
review.
President Ford, who was defeated in 1976 in his bid for re-election,
declined to implement the ODAP amendment. In March 1977, Ford's successor --
President Jimmy Carter -- filled the vacant ODAP Director position with Dr.
Peter Bourne. Dr. Bourne was confirmed by the Senate in late May and
installed in office in June. A month later. President Carter submitted a plan
for the reorganization of the Executive Office of the President, which
included a provision for the abolition of ODAP. The plan (Reorganization
Plan No. 1, 1977) was not disapproved by Congress, and ODAP went out of
existence in early 1978. In all the successor agency to SAODAP was in
operation for little more than a half-year.
After ODAP's demise, however, Dr. Bourne became a presidential assistant
for international health and drug abuse and, as such, oversaw the operations
of a drug policy unit within the Domestic Policy Staff. After Dr. Bourne's
resignation, in mid-1978, the unit was supervised by the former Deputy
Director of ODAP, Lee Dogoioff. The Reagan Administration has continued
roughly the same arrangement, and in June 1982 the President issued an
Executive order (No. 12368) officially designating the unit the "Drug Abuse
Policy Office", and naming a director (Dr. Carlton Turner) to be "primarily
responsible for assisting the President in formulating policy for, and in
coordinating and overseeing, international as well as domestic drug abuse
functions by all Executive agencies."
III. Alternatives to a Drug Czar
If .we accept the proposition that the various Federal drug law enforcement
efforts, or the drug abuse prevention and treatment efforts, suffer from a
lack of coordinated policies and goals, is a super-agency -- i.e., a drug
czar — the only solution? certainly, other ways of approaching this problem
nave been conceived and tried during the past ten years.
First, the same legislation that established SAODAP also created a
Strategy Council, comprised of the department and agency heads who had the
greatest interest in the drug problem, the SAODAP director, and other
officials "as the President may deem appropriate." The mandate of the
Council is to develop a "comprehensive, coordinated long-term Federal
strategy for all drug abuse prevention functions and all drug traffic
prevention functions" of any agency of the Federal Government. The strategy
is to be reviewed and revised at least once a year. It is intended to cover
both broad policy objectives and operational matters. Certainly the case
could be made that in the policy-making area, the Strategy Council could
perform much of the function of a drug czar. The question is, after a
s.trategy has been framed and promulgated, who will follow up? Those who
support the super-agency idea maintain that continual monitoring is required
to see that a strategy is implemented. (Note; although the legislation
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requiring the establishment of the Council has never been repealed, the one*
strategy prepared by the Reagan Adhiinistration, for 1982, . involved
participation by government agencies only, without the members of the public
specified by amendments enacted in 1976).
The second alternative — in the law enforcement field -- is embodied, at
least partially, by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) itself.
Established by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, the agency was intended by
President Nixon to be the final answer to those who were charging that
enforcement was in disarray due to inter-agency rivalries and lack of
cooperation. Absorbing the manpower of three separate organizations, along
with all Customs personnel who specialized in drug law enforcement, DEA was
meant — by embracing the majority of enforcement people within one
organizational structure -- to provide a "unified command" in the
"counteroffensive" against drug abuse. Despite this move, which did not
involve the narcotics control efforts of the state Department or the coast
Guard, the rivalry problems have continued, according to many observers.
Cited most frequently as the biggest trouble area is the relationship between
DEA and Customs. Also, until the recent shift within the Justice .Department
(Jan. 21, 1982) that gave the FBI concurrent jurisdiction with DEA over drug
law enforcement, the former agency was inactive in the field, thus providing
its agents with little incentive to share intelligence or otherwise cooperate
with their DEA brethren.
The third coordinating mechanism that has been tried -- by Presidents
Nixon, Ford, and Reagan — is the inter-agency committee. The Ford
Administration argued against the extension of SAODAP on the grounds that the
agency had achieved its purpose as an emergency measure and that the time had
come to return to normal institutional structure and procedure. in answer to
the contention that a continued White House-level agency was necessary to
give the anti-drug effort the needed "clout," Administration defenders
pointed out that if this line were followed with respect to every important
Federal undertaking, there would be an overwhelming number of White House
agencies. Furthermore, it was held that a more effective and appropriate way
to achieve coordination was the one recommended by a special task force ^of
the President's Domestic Council in the fall of 1975 and subsequently taken
by President Fords creation of a Cabinet Committee on Drug Abuse Prevention
and a Cabinet committee on Drug Law Enforcement. The members of the latter
were the Attorney General and the Secretaries of the Treasury and of
TraxiSportation, with the DEA Administrator acting as Executive Director. The
two committees were modeled on the Cabinet Committee for International
Narcotics control, created by former President Nixon, which the Domestic
Council group evaluated as having been "quite successful."
Growing out of the two cabinet committees created by President Ford was
the so-called "Principals Group," comprised of the chiefs of the operating
agencies having the greatest responsibility for drug abuse control. The
group was at one time given high marks for resolving conflicts and promoting
cooperation, especially among the enforcement agencies. (An expanded version
of the Principals Group is still functioning, under the designation "White
House Oversight Working Group," meeting once a month. A separate entity, the
"Working Group on Drug Supply Reduction" is.concerned with "law enforcement
only.)
Finally, the Reagan Administration has established its own versions of the
cabinet committee: the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, chaired by the
Attorney General, and -- in connection with the President's new anti-drug
trafficking task force initiative -- a Cabinet Committee on Organized Crime,
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IV. Summary Discussion
The argument over the drug czar proposals reflects a disagreement over the
value and appropriateness of various kinds of government mechanisms. Neither
side denies the need for coordination, both in policy-making and in
operations, although there is disagreement over the degree to which it has
been achieved by the Reagan Administration under the present system.
Essentially, the opponents of the czar concept see it as hostile to the
cabinet system of government. That system allots authority and
responsibility to various departments along reasonably coherent
jurisdictional lines, they argue, and when areas of responsibility overlap —
as frequently happens -- the appropriate mechanism for achieving coordination
is one of an inter-cabinet nature. A special "overlord" agency of any kind
depreciates the system, opponents say.
On the other side, proponents have been dissatisfied with the
inter-cabinet and inter-agency structures tried in the past. While many of
them may agree that the czar solution does violate the logic of the cabinet
system, they make the case that the drug problem is special -- that the
dimensions of the threat and the necessary complexity of the government's
response demand a departure from "business as usual." They hold that only an
entity with direct access to the President -- and one with budget review
authority as well as the power to influence actual agency operations — can
successfully overcome the inherent impediments to coordination of effort
among Federal agencies.
To what extent does past experience offer guidance for judging the above
positions?
Although appraisals made both by Members of Congress and executive branch
officials are available, it is difficult to form a clear idea of the results
of the various approaches taken. In one of the few outsider assessments of
SAODAP, a political scientist — writing in 1981 -- examined the agency from
the aspect of the light it shed on styles of Presidential management. While
noting certain early successes, G. Larry Mays pointed to an eventual failure
in meeting original expectations (The Special Action Office for Drug Abuse
Prevention: Drug Control During the Nixon Administration. International
Journal of Public Administration, v. 3, 1981). The reason he cited was an
apparent loss of confidence in the agency's^director, Dr. Jerome Jaffe, by
influential presidential aides and thus, presumably, also by the President.
Crediting President Nixon with a genuine interest in the drug problem.
Mays noted that Dr. Jaffa's contact man in the Nixon White House was Egil
("Bud") Krogh, a trusted high-level aide who could guarantee that the SAODAP
director would have ready access to the President. However, Mays stated,
"after Jaffee waivered on the matter of replacing Dr. [Bertram] Brown of the
National Institute of Mental Health, Krogh was no longer his contact and he
was relegated to dealing with one of the many junior aides in the White
House." This, Mays concluded, marked "an end to Jaffe's effective contact
with the President and consequently a loss of influence." Under the next
director, Robert DuPont, the agency was moved physically out of the Executive
Office of the President (EOP) and located in Rockville, Maryland, and was
generally perceived as further diminished in terms of its impact on the
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process of Presidential decision-maKing.
Professional employees of the agencies directly responsible for dealing
with the drug problem offer varying informal evaluations of SAODAP. While
many appear to welcome any move that highlights the drug problem and that
projects the image of a higher level of priority, others express the doubt
that any formal entity, such as SAODAP or the proposed drug czar office, can
accomplish what is intended. According to the latter, to the extent that
there indeed remain coordination difficulties -- after all of the
consolidating moves of the past 10 years what is needed is not a new
overlord office but rather (1) a definite and sustained interest in the
problem on the part of the President and (2) one high-level Presidential aide
who has access to the President, to monitor the operating agencies and to
bring important conflicts to the President's attention. One veteran
enforcement official has commented privately, "We've already had a drug czar,
the only kind that works, and that was Bud Krogh." (See above.)
Ultimately, in trying to answer the question "Do we need a drug czar?",
the Congress is faced with a series of additional questions, both theoretical
and practical. Is the general principle sound? Does the concept of a
super-agency, which would coordinate and direct a group of operating agencies
having some common function, do violence to the logic of Executive Branch
departmental structure? Is that structure sacrosanct, or does the growth of
the White House Staff and the EOP indicate that in many respects it has
already been found wanting? To solve a coordination problem in any area, is
there a better and more appropriate alternative to creation of a
super-agency, such as the cabinet committee or other similar inter-agency
mechanism? Alternatively, have such arrangements been fruitful in the past?
Assuming that there are indeed exceptional problems that warrant creation of
a super-agency, is drug abuse one of them? Are the present organizations and
arrangements -- the Reagan Administration's Cabinet Council on Legal Policy,
the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program, the border
interdiction task force program under the direction of the Vice President,
the Drug Abuse Policy Office in the EOP, and the general lead taken by the
Attorney General in the drug enforcement field — working or not? Have they
been given enough time to demonstrate their potential? Can any office such
as one of those now proposed be successful if the President in office is not
in sympathy with the idea? On the other hand, if it is the responsibility of
Congress to create effective government institutions that will survive the
preferences and style of a particular administration, is a drug czar office
so essential that those preferences should be discounted?
LEGISLATION
H.R. 3326 (Shaw)
Establishes the "Office of the Director of National and International Drug
Operations and Policy" to ensure (1) the development of a national policy
with respect to illegal drugs, (2) the direction and coordination of all
Federal agencies involved in the effort to implement such a policy, and (3)
that a single high-level official, "accountable to the Congress and the
American people," will be charged with the responsibility of coordinating the
overall direction of United States policy, resources, and operations with
respect to the illegal drug problem. Specifies that there shall be both a
Director and a Deputy Director — the Director to be appointed by the
President from among the Vice President and the heads of the executive
departments of the U.S. and the Deputy Director also to be appointed by the
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President but with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provision'' is made
specifically for the participation of the Office in the development of
budgetary priorities and allocations of the operative agencies.
H.R. 4028 (Hugnes, Sawyer, Smith of Fla., and Oilman)
Reestablishes an Office of Drug Abuse Policy (ODAP) in the Executive
Office of the President. Amends the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and
Rehabilitation Act to revise the authority (still contained in the statute)
of ODAP, to provide for a Deputy Director for Drug Abuse Prevention and a
Deputy Director for Drug Enforcement. Sets forth authorities for the
Director of the office, which include the establishment of policy and
priorities for all Federal drug abuse functions and the coordination and
oversight of such functions. Stipulates that the Vice-President may be
appointed Director. Among specific powers provided is review of all annual
budgets of departments and agencies engaged in drug abuse functions.
Authorizes appropriations of $500,000 for FY84 for carrying out the act.
Requires the Director to submit a written report to Congress annually on the
activities conducted under the statute. H.R. 3664 introduced July 26, 1983;
referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and on Energy and
Commerce. H.R. 4028, a clean bill in lieu of H.R. 3664, introduced Sept. 29;
referred to the Committees on Judiciary and on Energy and Commerce. ordered
to be reported (amended) by the Judiciary committee and referred to Committee
on Energy and Commerce, Oct. 4.
S. 1787 (Biden et al.)
National Narcotics Act of 1984. Creates a "National Drug Enforcement
Policy Board," to be chaired by the Attorney General and to be comprised of
various cabinet-level officials and others as may be appointed by the
President. Gives the Board specific authorities aimed at facilitating
coordination of U.S. operations and policy on drug law enforcement
including the authority to review, evaluate, and develop budgetary
priorities. Prohibits interference by the Board with "routine law
enforcement or intelligence decisions of any agency." Introduced Aug. 4,
1983; referred to Judiciary. Reported, without amendment, Aug. 4. written
report filed Oct. 25 (S.Rept. 98-278). (Contents of bill added by floor
amendment on Oct. 26, 1983, to H.R. 3959, a supplemental appropriation bill
that passed the Senate Oct. 27, 1983. Amendment dropped in conference.)
Passed Senate, amended, Feb. 7, 1984. In House, referred jointly to
Committees on the Judiciary and on Energy and commerce, Feb. 9, 1984.
Included as a part of a floor amendment to H.R. 5690, which passed the House
on Oct. 2. Also was included as part of H.J.Res. 648. The conference report
on H.J.Res. 648 was approved by the House and Senate on October 10, and
Signed into law on Oct. 12, 1984 as P.L. 98-473.
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U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and
Foreign commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the
Environment. Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
Act and the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act
authorizations. Hearing, 96th Congress, 1st session,
on H.R. 3037. Mar. 27, 1979. Washington,'U.S.
Govt. Print. Off., 1979. 254 p.
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U.S.. Congress. Senate. committee on Government
Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Federal narcotics enforcement; interim report.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976. 191 p.
(94th Congress, 2d session. Senate. Report no. 94-1039)
U.S. Congress. senate. Committee on Human Resources.
Drug Abuse [office] and Treatment Act -- 1972;
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S. 525. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979.
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Welfare.' Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act
amendments of 1975; report to accompany S. 1608.
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1971; report to accompany S. 2097. Washington,
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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
10/12/84 -- The President signed H.J.Res. 648 into law
(P.L. 98-473) .
10/10/84 -- The House and Senate both agreed to the conference
report on H.J.Res. 648 (Continuing Appropriations,
FY85), which contained the contents of S. 1787 as
passed by the'Senate and as included by the House
in a bill passed on Oct. 2.
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10/02/84 — The House passed K.R. 5690, an omnibus crime control
bill that included the provisions of S. 1787
as previously passed by the Senate.
02/07/84 — The Senate passed an amended version of S. 1787,
reflecting a compromise acceptable to the
Reagan Administration.
11/15/83 — The drug "czar" and drug commission provisions
of the Senate-passed supplemental appropriations
bill were dropped by the House-Senate conference
committee.
10/26/83 — The Senate added the contents of S. 1787, a
so-called "drug czar" bill, to H.R. 3959, a supplemental
appropriations bill that was subsequently passed by
the Senate on Oct. 27. Also added was a proposal to
create a "Commission on Drug Interdiction and
Enforcement."
10/04/83 — H.R. 4028 was ordered reported, amended, by
the House Judiciary Committee and referred to
the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
09/15/83 — The House Subcommittee on Crime approved a clean
bill to amend Title II of the Drug Abuse Office
and Treatment Act for the purpose of recreating
the Office of Drug Abuse Policy in the Executive
Office of the President (HOP). Deputy Directors
both for Drug Enforcement and for Drug Abuse
Prevention would be appointed under the bill's
provisions. An amendment accepted in subcommittee
mark-up would allow the President to name the
Vice President as Director. The bill was introduced
Sept. 29 as H.R. 4028.
08/04/83 — A.n altered version of the Administration omnibus
crime control bill was reported by the Senate
Judiciary committee (S. 1762). A separate bill
to establish a "drug czar" office was also
reported (S. 1787).
03/23/83 -- The White House announced the creation of a new
drug interdiction group headed by Vice President
Bush. The National Narcotics Border Interdiction
System (NNBIS) was charged with coordinating the
work of Federal agencies that have responsibilities
for interdiction of sea-borne, air-borne and
across-border importation of narcotics and other
dangerous drugs -- principally the Customs Service,
the Coast Guard, and the armed services.
01/14/83 -- President Reagan withheld his approval of
H.R. 3963 (97th Congress), thus exercising a
pocket veto. He was especially critical of a
provision establishing a "drug czar" office to
coordinate Federal drug law enforcement.
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12/20/82 -- A scalefi-down version of the Violent Crime and Drug '
Enforcement Improvement Act (H.R. 3963, 97th
Congress) was cleared for the President. It
contained provisions for the creation of a so-called
"drug czar" office to coordinate Federal drug
law enforcement.
10/14/82 -- The President announced a major new drive
against illicit drug trafficking. Subsequently
designated the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement
(OCDE) task force program, the initiative
involved creation of 12 regional task forces
for the investigation and prosecution of major
trafficking cases. It was anticipated to
require the hiring of 1,200 new investigators
and prosecutors.
06/24/82 — By Executive Order the President established the
Drug Abuse Policy Office in the Office of Policy
Development (EOP) for the purpose of performing
the duties specified under Title II of the Drug
Abuse Office and Treatment Act. According to the
order, the Director of the Office would be
"primarily responsible for assisting the
President in formulating policy for, and in
coordinating and overseeing, international as
well as domestic drug abuse functions by all
Executive agencies." Dr. Carlton Turner, the
President's senior advisor on drug abuse policy,
was appointed Director.
01/29/82 -- The President announced creation of the Cabinet
Council on Legal Policy, to be chaired by the
Attorney General. The Council was charged with
the review of matters pertaining to
interdepartmental aspects of law enforcement
policy, with an initial emphasis on narcotics
enforcement and immigration and refugee policy.
Subsequently, the Council formed the Working
Group for Drug supply Reduction, under the
chairmanship of the Associate Attorney General.
01/28/82 — President Reagan announced the establishment of
a special task force to combat illicit drug
traffic in South Florida. Composed of officials
from a number of Federal agencies, to work with
State and local authorities, the task force was
placed under the direction of Vice President
Bush.
01/21/82 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation was given
concurrent jurisdiction, with the Drug Enforcement
Administration, over the enforcement of dangerous
drug laws. Under the new arrangement, the DEA is
required to report to the Attorney General through
the FBI Director.
07/00/81 -- Dr. Carlton Turner was appointed as President
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* Reagan's "senior advisor on drug abuse policy."
03/00/78 — The Office of Drug Abuse Policy (ODAP) was
terminated. ODAP Director Peter Bourne was
designated a presidential assistant for
international health and drug abuse and,
as such, supervised the operation of a unit
of the Domestic Policy staff charged with
formulation of policy on matters pertainig to
drug abuse. This arrangement was continued
under his successor, Lee Dcgoloff.
07/15/77 -- President carter submitted Reorganization
Plan No. 1 of 1977 to Congress. The plan proposed
a reorganization of the Executive Office of the
President, one aspect of which was abolition
of the Office of Drug Abuse Policy.
06/00/77 -- Dr. Peter Bourne took office as the director
of ODAP, having been previously confirmed by
the Senate.
03/00/77 -- President Carter announced that ODAP would be
established and that the Federal Drug Abuse
Strategies would be "revitalized."
04/27/76 — A presidential "Drug Abuse Message to the
Congress" announced the creation of the cabinet
Committee on Drug Law Enforcement (CCDLE) and
the Cabinet committee on Drug Abuse Prevention,
Treatment and Rehabilitation (CCDAPTR). Modeled
on the Cabinet Committee on International
Narcotics Control, established by President
Nixon (see below), the two committees were
charged with the development and implementation
of overall Federal strategy and the strengthening
of interagency coordination.
03/19/76 -- Amendments to the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment
Act became law. Among other things, they provided
for the establishment of a successor agency to
SAODAP, to be known as the Office of Drug Abuse
Policy (ODAP), on a scaled-down basis, to be
known as the Office of Drug _Abuse Policy (ODAP) .
Subsequently, President Ford declined to implement
the legislation and proposed a rescission of
appropriations for the proposed agency.
00/00/76 — The House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control was established, for the purpose
of studying and reviewing, from a unified
perspective, the problem of narcotics abuse
and its control. The initial panel included
members from all standing committees with
jurisdiction over significant aspects of drug
abuse control.
06/30/75 -- The Special Action Office for Drug Abuse
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Prevention statutory authorization expired. The *
Ford Administration declined to support extension.
00/00/73 — The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration (ADAMHA) was established in the
Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare -- comprised of three institutes of equal
status: the National Institute of Mental Health,
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse. The new agency was subsequently authorized
by statute (Title-II of P.L. 93-282).
00/00/73 -- The Drug Enforcement Administration was established
by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973. To create
the new Justice Department agency, the Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was combined with
the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, the
Office of National Narcotics Intelligence, and all
Customs Service personnel principally involved
in drug law enforcement.
03/21/72 -- The President approved the Drug Abuse Office and
Treatment Act, among the provisions of which were
those (1) providing statutory baching for the
Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention,
With specific authorities and appropriation
authorizations for three fiscal years, at -the end
of which the agency was to be terminated, (2)
establishing a Strategy council, to be appointed
by the President, for formulation and continual
revision of a "comprehensive, coordinated
long-term Federal strategy for all drug abuse
prevention functions and all drug traffic
prevention functions conducted, sponsored, or
supported by any department or agency of the
Federal Government." (3).further expansion of
Federal treatment and prevention grant programs,
including initiation of a program of formula
grants to the States, and (4) establishment of a
National Institute on Drug Abuse, within the
National Institute of Mental Health, to administer
all programs and authorities of the secretary
of Health, Education, and Weifare with respect
to drug abuse prevention functions.
06/00/71 -- President Richard Nixon appointed Dr. Jerome
Jaffe, a psychiatrist, as a special consultant
to the President for narcotics and dangerous -
drugs and in a Message to Congress announced
the establishment of the Special Action Office
for Drug Abuse Prevention, located within the
Executive Office of the President, to
coordinate and broadly direct all Federal
drug-abuse programs concerned with prevention,
education, treatment, rehabilitation, training
and research.
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10/15/68 — The President signed P.L. 90-574, which contained
amendments to the community Kental Health Centers
Act establishing the first program of Federal
grants specifically for funding the treatment
of narcotic addiction.
00/00/68 -- Under Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1968, the
Bureau of Narcotics (Treasury) and the Bureau
of Drug Abuse Control (FDA) were combined into
the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
in the Justice Department.
11/00/63 -- The President's Advisory Commission on Narcotic
and Drug Abuse ("Prettyman Commission") issued
its final report. Among recommendations was
one that the President appoint a Special
Assistant for Narcotic and Drug Abuse, from the
White House staff, to provide continuous advice
and assistance in launching a coordinated
attack on drug abuse.
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Brown, Lawrence S., Jr. Who's on first? Anatomy of the
Federal response to drug abuse. Journal of the
National Hedical Association, v. 73, no. 2, 1981:
145-159.
Mays, G. Larry. The Special Action Office for Drug Abuse
Prevention: drug control during the Nixon Administration.
International journal of public administration, v. 3,
1981: 355-372.
U.S. Comptroller General. Federal drug enforcement:
strong guidance needed (Departments of Justice
and the Treasury). [Washington] 1975. (GQD-76-32)
91 p.
U.S. Comptroller General. Federal drug interdiction
efforts need strong centrai oversight. Report
to the Congress. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print.
Off., June 13 , 1983. 136 p. (GAO/GGD-83-52) .
Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney
General. Annual report of the Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement Task Force Program. Washington,
[Department of Justice] 1984. 132 p.
U.S. Domestic Council Drug Abuse Task Force. White
paper on drug abuse. A report to the President.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. 116 p.
U.S. Drug Abuse Policy Office. Federal strategy for
prevention of drug abuse and drug trafficking,
1982. Prepared for the President pursuant to
the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of
1972. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
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U.S. Strategy Council on Drug Abuse.' Federal strategy
for drug abuse and drug traffic prevention.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973-
Published irregularly.
U.S. National Commission on Harihuana and Drug Abuse.
Drug use in America: problem in perspective.
Second report, Washington, U.S. Govt. Print.
Off., 1973. 481 p.
U.S. Office of Drug Abuse Policy. Supply control:
drug law enforcement; an intergency review.
[Washington] 1977. 61 p. plus appendices.
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interagency review. [Washington] 1977. 59 p. plus
appendices.
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Drug Abuse. Final report. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print. Off., 1963. 123 p.
Congressional Research Service
The Library of Congress
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The drug trade is out of control. In Colombia last year, police
captured 14 tons of cocaine and washed it down the
Yari river. In the Mexican state of Chihuahua, drug agents
captured 10,000 tons of marijuana and burned it. Together,
the busts destroyed nearly two billion dollars' worth of illegal
merchandise—yet neither one made more than a ripple
in the booming American drug market, which President
Reagan's South Florida Task Force calls a $100-billion-ayear
business. The federal govenunent is currently spending
Sl.2 billion annually in its war on the drug trade; 37
separate agendes and 11 cabinet departments are involved
in the effort. And yet it is still difficult even to estimate the
size of the problem. The Mexican bust alone amounted to
eight times the previous estimate of total Mexican marijuana
production, and roughly equaled the previous estimate
of marijuana entering the United States each year.
The Reagan administration blames the Marxist governments
of Nicaragua and Cuba for consdously subverting
American sodety with drugs. In fact, the international
drug trade encompasses Latin Americans of all political
stripes. Some darlings of the American right are apparently
involved. (See "Inside Dope in El Salvador," page 15.)
The drug industry is the most vidous on earth. TTie Washington
Post recently reported yet another gruesome story; a
baby's body, stuffed with cocaine, sewed shut, and carried
on an airplane as if alive, to smuggle drugs into the United
States. In the past few months two Drug Enforcement
Agency officials were murdered in Mexico, Colombian justice
minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was assassinated, and a
$300,000 bounty was proclaimed for the murder of American
narcotics agents. There are other victims as well, from
the 7,000 Mexican peasants who were found doing slave
labor at the Chihuahua marijuana factory to the innocent
bystanders caught in Miami machine-gun battles. To fight
this menace, the Reagan administration has made drug enforcement
a top priority. However, its well-intentioned effort
is likely to consist mainly of strengthening existing
methods of drug control. And for this reason, it is likely to
be both ineffective and hypocritical.
The prevailing strategy for fighting the drug war is ineffective
because it aims enforcement efforts at drug trafficking,
not drug use. It puts money into DEA motorboats and
air patrols, customs inspection equipment, and even satellite
reconnaissance of suspected Latin American drug
fields. It attempts to corral Latin American governments
into grudging cooperation. But these methods will almost
inevitably fail when used against gangsters with effectively
unlimited funds, men who can afford to acquire boats,
airplanes, and landing strips for onetime use, and to buy
government officials by the hundreds. In Colombia over
300 officials—including the president's private secretary—
were recently found to be in the pay of cocaine kingpins.
In Bolivia the 1980 military coup brought to power a group
of officers widely known as the "cocaine colonels."
As long as the demand for drugs remains constant, drug
traffic will defy all attempts at enforcement. The reason is
that the drug trade is a perfect example of unadulterated,
free-market capitalism. Every new DEA seizure pushes up
both the price of drugs and the potential profits reaped
from smuggling them. And the higher the potential profit,
the more ambitious and desperate the criminals.
But illegal drugs are not some mysterious and uncontrollable
plague seeping north from the tropics. They are
commodities that are imported because there is an American
market for them. The surest way to stop the illegal
drug trade is to make that market dry up. This is where the
prevailing drug-control strategy is hypocritical. It exempts
from all blame the one class of people ultimately responsible
for this brutal business; American drug users. Every
time an American lights a joint or does a line of coke, he or
she is directly subsidizing murder across the hemisphere.
It doesn't matter if the user is a legislative aide to a compassionate
congressman or an inner-city pimp. As Colombian
drug lord Roberto Suarez Gomez boasts, his fortune
came entirely from "the depravity of the Yaiiquis."
So how to make the market dry up? The most obvious
way is also the most draconian; go back to the 1950s and
make the use of drugs subject to such severe punishment
that demand decreases. Today the possession of marijuana
has attained a semi-legal status in some parts of the
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country. Eleven states have decriminalized the drug, and
another 29 have made possession a misdemeanor. Under
decriminalization, the law treats those caught with marijuana
like speeding motorists. The offenders get a ticket,
pay a token fine (in effect a consumption tax), and promise
to be more discreet next time. Some states, like New York,
seem to have decided that even this benign practice isn't
worth enforcing. You can go to a movie in Manhattan and
get high simply by breathing. Yet while possession up to a
specified amount (usually one ounce) is tolerated, the sale
and cultivation of marijuana is still a felony in almost every
state. That's why criminal drug marketers come into play.
In effect, the legal status of marijuana smoking is like
Prohibition, which banned the production and sale of alcohol
while leaving drinkers alone. The result in both
cases is that crime flourishes.
Several states are attempting to curtail other socially
unacceptable practices—drunk driving and the criminal
use of handguns—by imposing mandatory jail sentences
on convicted offenders. If marijuana and cocaine users
drew the same sort of penalty, the demand for the drugs
and their black-market suppliers would almost certainly
decrease. This strategy would cut down drug-related violence,
and it would be less hypocritical than complaining
about that violence while condoning the use of marijuana.
Still, the philosophical drawbacks of such legislation are
obvious. Classical liberal thought puts a primacy on personal
liberty up to the point where an individual's actions
threaten to harm society as a whole. It's easy to contend
that because the drug culture breeds violence, an individual's
freedom to use drugs must be subjugated to the
health of society. But to effectively curtail drug consumption,
the state would have to consistently invade the privacy
of people's homes, where most drug use takes place. Is
it possible to maximize personal liberty while defusing the
drug wars?
That's solution two: legalization of marijuana, and perhaps
even of cocaine. By allowing anyone to grow and sell
marijuana (and removing all penalties for possession), the
black market for this drug, and the violence associated
with it, would be eliminated. A government agency like
the FDA could then regulate the sale of pot, complete with
warnings like those on cigarette packages and a guarantee
that the product isn't laced with potentially lethal drugs
like "angel dust" (an all too frequent reality on the streets).
Revenue from a sales tax on marijuana could finance a
government campaign to educate the public on the dangers
of drug use. Anyone would be free to get high, but
would also be made fully aware of the potential health
hazard. This idea is no more untenable than the current
situation, which boasts both a plague of violence and
widespread drug use.
The real choice to be made in fighting the drug trade,
then, is between crackdown and legalization. Both alternatives
probably seem absurd to comfortable, middleclasfe
Americans whose only connection to the drug trade
is the occasional toke. But they are not at all absurd for the
thousands of American and Latin American victims of
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drug-related crime. Neither solution is easy. But if we
honestly want to stop the drug trade, we must decide
what our values are—whether we want drugs or not—and
then make a choice, and enforce it. We cannot conhnue to
have things both ways.
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Drug Wars: Murder in Mexico
The Camarena case exposes corruption and strains relations with Washington.
Abricklayer walking down a road near
the Mexican town of Villahermosa
discovered the two plastic bags half buried
in the dirt. Inside were two bodies decomposed
beyond recognition. It was not until
two days later that a positive identification
could be made. The corpses were those of
U.S. narcotics agent Enrique Camarena Salazar
and Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a Mexican
pilot who had flown occasional missions for
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Both had been kidnapped a month
earlier in Guadalajara; their brutally tortured
bodies confirmed American law-enforcement
officials' most disheartening
fears. "Now is the time to honor and mourn
our dead," said Attorney General Edwin
Meese in his first public statement since
becoming head of the Justice Department.
"But the drug traffickers who committed
these crimes will have no rest."
A military transport plane brought Camarena's
body back to the North Island
Naval Air Station near San Diego. "It was
a very sad journey," John Gavin, U.S.
ambassador to Mexico, told Geneva Camarena,
who stood by her husband's flag-
2S
draped coffin with her young son. Camarena
had spent five years in the hot drug
wars of Guadalajara. He had been due for
reassignment to the DEA's San Diego field
office this week. Feelings over the case ran
high in Washington. Nancy
Reagan, who has taken a personal
interest in the administration's
war against narcotics,
was distraught. And
Secretary of State George
Shultz told the Senate Appropriations
Committee, "Our
level of tolerance has been exceeded
by these events."
Even so, the administration's
response was diplomatically
calibrated. In most matters,
Mexico officially remains
a good friend to the United
States. And it is very much a friend in need.
The country's economy is still recovering
from the dual blows of declining oil revenues
and the developing world's second highest
foreign debt. Shultz specifically rejected the
notion of using economic sanctions to prod
the Mexicans into a more vigorous attack on
Camarena: Martyr
official corruption and drugs. "What does
bringing down the Mexican economy accomplish?"
asked a State Department official.
"It-just creates a mess."
Instead, the administration turned up the
heat of its rhetoric. Ambassador
Gavin has spoken with increasing
forcefulness on the
subject of official Mexican corruption,
and the State Department
has made no attempt to
censor his remarks. There was
a good cop, bad cop side to
Gavin's approach. Washington
officials have considered
warning American travelers to
^ avoid Mexico and disrupting
s border commerce through increased
cargo searches. But
Gavin argued that it would be
better to threaten such sanctions.through
press leaks and official statements than to
put them into effect.
Meanwhile, the DEA pressed ahead with
us investigation. NEWSWEEK has learned
that U.S. agents are focusing on a reputed
drug dealer and hit man who uses the name
NEWSWEEK/MARCH 18. 1985
Manuel Salcido, but is
known around Guadalajara
as "CochiJoco" (Crazy Pig).
DBA officials have received
reports from several'sources
that before the kidnappings,
Cochiloco had complained
that Camarena, who was investigating
Mexican cocaine
smuggling, had been
harassing his operation. He
allegedly threatened to kill
the DEA agent if the pressure
continued. Cochiloco
is also said to have boasted
that he had murdered a
DEA informant, and officials
in Washington confirmed
that one of Camarena's
informants had been
killed. U.S. officials did not
believe, however, that Cochiloco
had planed the
kidnapping-murder on his
own. According to DEA
sources, he worked for a cocaine
syndicate run by Rafael
Caro Quintero, said by the DEA to be
one of the biggest traffickers in Mexico. The
DEA also suspects the involvement of two
other alleged kingpins: Juan Malta Ballesteros
and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.
Snapahott Additional evidence that
top traffickers may have been involved
emerged when Mexican police belatedly
raided Gallardo's ranch a few days a^er
the kidnapping. Gallardo had disappeared
by then, but a photograph of Camarena
was discovered at the ranch. The snapshot
had been taken at the headquarters of the
Mexican Federal Judicial Police (MFJP).
As of last week, Mexican police had not
yet explained how the picture had fallen
into Gallardo's hands.
American officials could point to one
victory in the drug war. DEA agents in
Miami arrested Norman Saunders, chief
minister of the Turks and Caicos islands in
the West Indies, and charged him with conspiring
to provide a "safe
haven" for drug traffickers
in the British territory. If
convicted, Saunders could
become the first head of a
foreign land to be sent to
prison in the United States
on drug charges. The arrest
was the culmination of an
operation that began in January
when a DEA informant
indicated that top island
officials might be involved
in the narcotics business.
Posing as traffickers, undercover
DEA agent Gary Sloboda
and the informant met
with Saunders both in the
islands and in Miami. In
their final, secretly videotaped
meeting, the informant
paid Saunders S20,000,
Marine guards carry the coffin: Fellow agents vowed to settle scores
allegedly for having protected the movement
of cocaine. The men also discussed the
possibility of smuggling 800 kilograms of
cocainea week into the United States. Then
DEA agents moved in for the arrest. Altogether,
Saunders was accused of having
accepted 550,000 to allow drugs to move
freely through the islands.
But American investigators were chiefly
concerned about solving the murder oftheir
agent—and they were deeply disturbed by
the apparent eagerness of the Mexican authorities
to close the case once the two
bodies were found. On the Saturday before
the discovery, Mexican police received an
anonymous letter saying the remains were
located on the ranch of Manuel Bravo Cervantes,
a small-time criminal with a past
record of homicide. When police arrived at
the ranch, gunfire erupted from the small
main house. One policeman was killed, as
were Manuel Bravo, his wife and sons.
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Three days later, the bodies
were found on the outskirts
of the ranch.
But U.S. officials quickly
rejected the implication
that the Bravo family was
behind the deaths of Camarena
and Zavala. Police had
searched the ranch immediately
after the shoot-out—
and no bodies were found at
the time. They went back
with DEA agents the following
Tuesday, but again
they found no trace of the
victim^ It was only around
6 o'clock that evening that
the young Mexican man
. came upon the suspicious
I bags. He ran to inform the I chief of his village, and, according
to DEA officials,
I when he returned with the
I chief, the bags had been
3 moved a short way. There
was additional evidence
that the bodies had recently
been planted on the site. Ambassador Gavin
noted, for example, that the dirt found
on the bodies did not match the soil of
the ranch. "This thing
smells," said one U.S.
agent involved in the
search. The real killers,
he argued, were trying to
frame the Bravo family.
C<9s: It was not the
first time that an apparent
breakthrough
seemed to have been
manufactured for U.S.
consumption. When the
Americans complained
that Mexico was not doing
enough to root out its
corrupt cops, the MFJP promptly trotted
out former policeman Tomas Morlett Borquez
and announced that he was a "prime
suspect" in-the kidnappings. He was later
released for lack of evidence,
and U.S. officials
now believe his arrest was a
charade. According to confidential
documents, when
Morlett was stopped on
Feb. 24on the Tecate-Tijuana
Highway, he apparently
failed to notice that the
Mexican police were accompanied
by agents of the
DEA. "I thought you were
going to stop me in Tijuana,"
Morlett told his captors.
According to the DEA
officials on the scene, the
MFJP agents apologized
and told Morlett they were
S only carrying out orders
I from Mexico City. Morlett
= reportedly responded by
(Continued on page 32)
Burning pot
29
A G-Man's Anger
Francis (Bud) Mullen is a G-man's G-man: tight-lipped,
courageous and, when he chooses, quietly intimidating. Seven
years ago FBI Director William Webster brought Mullen in
from the field to help de-Hoover the bureau's Washington
headquarters. And when the Drug Enforcement Administration
was being placed under FBI control in 1981, Mullen was
lapped as point man for the Reagan administration's war on
drugs. A 23-year veteran of the FBI, Mullen, 50, was preparing
to retire last month when DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salarar
was kidnapped in Guadalajara. As a private citizen, Mullen
is now free to talk candidly about drug wars that he believes are
being fought valiantly—and against uphill odds.
The Camarena murder darkened Mullen's final days in the
government—but hardened his resolve. He has ignored White
House cautions to temper his criticism and avoid any international
incident. "I'm going to continue to speak out until we
find out what happened to Enrique
Camarena," he says. "I think it's time
to ignore the sensibilities of some individuals
and face the fact we have a
problem down there. This entire incident
is a blot on the nation of Mexico."
Mullen's anger stems not just
from the death of one of his agents,
but from what he sees as the endemic
corruption among Mexican authorities
that he thinks contributed to
Camarena's murder. "We can go on
forever making a seizure here and
there," he says, "but until the Mexicans
themselves root out that corruption,
I don't think we'll ever stop the
flow of drugs from Mexico."
Mullen has always been a realist.
He doesn't believe thai the outgunned
DEA can wipe out the drug
lords on its own. Unless the illequipped
governments of such drugproducing
countries as Peru and
livia find the will and the resources to
clamp down, he says, all that can be
done "is stabilize the problem." But
Mullen is encouraged by a newfound
commitment to law enforcement in
such traditional centers of drug production
and distribution as Colombia. "If every government,"
he argues, "would do what the Colombians, the Europeans or
we're doing, we could eliminate the drug problem." Still, he
believes that the agency's efforts have sent the drug traffickers
backward, and he sees evidence of success in the very desperation
with which the Mexican drug syndicate is now attacking
DEA agents. "It means they are really being hurt," he says.
"[Now] it's a matter of who will cave in first."
Model: Mullen argues that lawmen need to organize their
efforts much more effectively. One of the major problems he sees
is the hodgepodge of federal law-enforcement agencies fighting
for turf. Right now the FBI, DEA, Customs Service and Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireaimsarerivalfiefdoms. "There are
too many people who want to be in charge." says Mullen. To
coordinate efforts better, he thinks one agency head should
direct the government's entire antidrug effort. Mullen is quick to
point out that he is not proposing a one-agency national police
force. "I don't believe that's what people want," he says, "and I
don't believe it should happen. I think it's nice to have a little bit
of friendly competition." His recommendation is based on the
Ex-DEA chief Mullen: 'Who will cave infint?'
CIA-Pentagon model. "I think we should have in the lawenforcement
community [something] similar to what we have in
the intelligence community, [someone] like the director of Central
Intelligence." His choice for the hypothetical top job is his
former FBI boss, William Webster.
Mullen thinks that better utilization of new technology
could also help stymie international drug traffic. However, he
does not support a heavily endorsed congressional proposal to
pump S150 million into the building of a Customs Service air
fleet. The squadron, to be composed of 16 P-3 Orion aircraft
equipped with combat radar, would patrol the East, West,
Gulf and Florida coasts in search of cocaine-carrying small
aircraft. "It's going to be showy," says Mullen, "but 1 don't
think they're going to find anything. It's just too vast an area
out there." He thinks a much better idea would be to utilize
already available military equipment' and manpower. "The
military has [the gear] out there," he contends. "If they're
going to have maneuvers, why not hold them in the border or
trafficking areas? I think that the military really ought to be
doing more in the interdiction area."
Mullen dismisses the notion that this
plan could lead to military abuses.
"There is sufficient ovenight on the
part of Congress and others," he
says, "to deter infringement on individual
liberties."
•amp: There are other pressing
problems besides confusion at home
and corruption abroad. Mullen is
convinced that enemies of the United
States are using their homegrown
drug traffic as a foreign-policy weapon.
"I've never seen any evidence that
said the Soviets had sat down and
plotted this out," headmits, "but I do
believe there are ulterior motives on
the part of some countries who see
[the drug traffic] as undermining our
government and society." He argues
that governments in Nicaragua, Syria,
Bulgaria and Cuba—knowing that
the bulk of cocaine and heroin is ultimately
consumed in America—are
purposely doing nothing to clamp
down on drug producers and movers:
"We know that in the Bekaa Valley
the Syrian Army is facilitating heroin
traffic. The Syrian government could
stop that, but they haven't. The Cuban government could stop
the transiting on their territory, but they haven't. You've
got to know that Fidel Castro sits down there and tokes areat
delight in this."
Ultimately, however, Mullen thinks there will be no victory in
the war on drugs until American attitudes undergo a fundamental
shift. To accomplish that, he envisions a national drugeducation
program aimed at children and adults, coupled with a
closer watch on legal prescriptions and a new emphasis on
alternative physical-fitness cures. He also contends that "bankers
who are laundering money, attorneys who are profiting from
defending traffickers, and professional athletes and the people
in the entertainment industry who are using drugs" are an
integral part of the problem. Indeed, says Mullen, these Americans
"should take some of the credit for the murder of agent
Camarena because they're contributing to the problem as much
as thrae corrupt traffickers down there who are directly responsible."
If the attractions of drugs cannot be destroyed, he says.
drugs will destroy all they attract.
ELAINE SHANNON rn Washington
30
5 o NEWSWEEK/MARCH 18. 1985
INTERNATIONAL
(Continued from page 29)
saying that he hoped what the cops had told
him was true, or else the MFJP agents
would be in a lot of trouble.
NEWSWEEK has learned that Ambassador
Gavin asked the DEA to draw up a list
of everything that is known or suspected
about drug-related corruption in Mexico.
Numerous allegations have already been
compiled. One of the most serious is that
Mexico's opium- and marijuana-eradication
program, which U.S. officials had long
hail^ as a model, may in fact be tainted
with corruption. Among other things, DEA
officials have been told that some Mexican
eradication pilots had substituted water for
the herbicides they were supposed to spray.
"They weren't killing the fields, they were
watering them," says a frustrated U.S. official.
The allegation has yet to be confirmed.
But Mexico's share of the U.S. market for
heroin, marijuana and cocaine is increasing
sharply, leading some American officials to
conclude that the eradication program is
verging on failure.
Sboot^htu And the violence continues
to grow. Last week marijuana traffickers
massacred half the police force of San Fernando,
30 miles from the Texas border.
Four policemen and a civilian were apparently
tailing a suspicious tank truck when
their car was rammed off the road by a
Mercury Grand Marquis. As one officer
radioed for help, the occupants of the Mercury
opened fire with machine guns, shotguns
and pistols. The four officers and the
civilian were killed without firing a shot.
When three more policemen arrived at the
scene they also were shot, but survived.
When still more state policemen arrived,
they discovered 1,700 pounds of marijuana
in the abandoned tank truck. By Mexican
standards it was a relatively insignificant
haul. There was no indication that San Fernando
police had stepped up their drugenforcement
efforts in response to U.S.
pressure. They had just met some unusually
nasty traffickers on a bad day.
The U.S. Customs Service closed nine
isolated border stations after an informant
warned that an inspector would be kidnapped
or kiUed. "The developments in
Mexico emphasize the reality of the
threats," said Charles Conroy, public-affairs
officer for the southwest customs region.
The threats were also being taken
seriously at the DEA, where coldly furious
agents insisted they would continue the
fight. "We are willing to accept our losses,"
said deputy administrator Jack Lawn.
"What we will not accept is terrorism, and
this has only strengthened our resolve."
That was not just bluster. The DEA now
had its martyrs, and despite their previously
comfortable position in Mexico, the traffickers
could expect to be hit hard.
HARRY ANDERSON wiOi ELAINE SHANNON and
ZOFIA SMARDZ in Waahingion. JOSEPH HARMES
in Meaico and bureau reports
32
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Research Service with permission of copyright claimant.
WHO'S mVOlVED^ HOW IT WORKS, AND WHERE IT'S SPREADING
• n the beginning, the state trooper
Kfrom New Mexico got nothing but
• grief from higher-ups for not writing
more traffic tickets. They complained
that he was wasting too much time
counting c^h confiscated from cars
speeding eastbound along his lonely
stretch of "Cocaine Corridor"—Interstate
40 outside Albuquerque. In one
car, the trooper found $128,000 stuffed
into a spare tire. "I used to have to give
the money back to those crooks," he
grumbles.
Now, however, the trooper has no
^uble convincing anyone that the cash
is important The confiscated loot comes
from drug sales on the West Coast Its
destination: Florida banks serving as
loading bins for a global money laundry
that washes away any connection between
dealers' profits and their drugs.
The trooper, who insists on anonymity
for fear of "Colombians with machine
guns," is no longer giving the money
back.
Instead, after years of unsuccessfully
trying to curb drug dealing, bribery, and
tax evasion, law enforcement officials
are going after money launderers with a
vengeance. Their primary targets are
the incredible $80 billion in cash transactions
generated by the drug trade, and
the highly sophisticated businessmen
who mastermind this shadow world of
front corporations and bank-secrecy havens
{box, page 79).
The nascent crackdown is going to hit
people all over the world, from broker
age houses to Atlantic CiQ- gambling
casinos before it runs its course. Bankers'
lives will change dramatically. Already,
a ranking congressman has introduced
legislation that would make
bankers who deliberately ignore the
laundering of illegal cash proceeds liable
for sentences of up to 10 years. At a
minimum, bankers will have to pay the
price for increased vigilance; higher ad-
FOLLOWING THE
MONEY TRAIL
1. Drug dealer gives iaunderer $250,000 tn
cash from street sales
2< Launderer, working with accomplice, goes
to s^ral banks to purchase 50 money
orders for S5.000 each.
The money orders are deposited in the account
of a P^amanian "frwit" company, perhaps an
import-export firm set up just to handle such
transactions. No report to the government is
necessary because each cash transaction
was under $10,000
*
• a
74 BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH 18,198S
7 COVER STORY
A7.';'> ^' s'jrtv^nje^-a? ,-!!ji'?::veatt .airpr J
-- t;,.
ministrative costs and the loss of some
legitimate business.^
Average citizens will be caught in the
crossfire, too. Government intrusion into
financial privacy will increase with the
Treasury's plan to monitor some overseas
money transfers. And more personal
information could become available as
prized banking havens such as Switzerland
come under renewed pressure to
loosen up on confidentiality.
CASH stiZED. The heat is on because federal,
state, and special joint task forces
have decided that focusing on "the
cash trail" is the best way to hurt organized
crime. "We want to go after the
money," says John M. Walker Jr., Assistant
'Treasury Secretary for enforcement
and operations. Cash, says James D.
Harmon, executive director of the President's
(immission on Organized Crime,
is "the life-support system without
which organized crime cannot exist"
The crackdown is already having some
impact Using a new law that allows the
authorities to confiscate cash hoards,
Treasury has seized some $75 million in
illegal profits in the last four years.
Twenty-one banks have been penalized
for failing to file government forms required
for cash transactions of more
than $10,000. Treasury sources say an
additional 41 financial instituUons are
under investigation for similar offenses.
And scores of other banks could be
caught up in grand jury proceedings involving
money laundering in Boston,
Chicago, San Francisco, Newark, and
New York.
Launderers don't just use banks, either.
In the "pizza connection," named
for the chain of pizza parlors that served
in Uie early 1980s as Mafia drug drops,
launderers made cash deposits of $4.9
million at Merrill Lynch, Kerce, Fenner
& Smith Inc. and $15.6 million at E. F.
Hutton £ Co. before they were caught
The problem extends overseas, too. In
the same pizza connection case, launderers
made large cash deposits in two of
Switzerland's most revered banks, Swiss
Bank Corp. and Credit Suisse. These two
were among nine European banks with
which Bank of Boston Corp. exchanged
more than $1 billion in unreported cash.
And Frankfurt police sources, although
they did not identify any specific banks,
say that Swiss institutions have been
used by German launderers to hide their
profits from heroin they import from
Turkey.
The global reach of organized crime
has forced foreign governments to step
up their efforts to control money laundering.
Information that came out of the
Bank of Boston case led the Irish government
to confiscate nearly $2 million
from a Dublin bank account belonging
to the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
Irish officials believe their actions put a
stop to an imminent arms deal. The Italian
police have also been working closely
with their U. S. counterparts to nail Mafia
investments in Italy made with laundered
money. Thus far, the Guardia di
Finanza has uncovered some $250 million,
including office buildings, a hotel in
Milan, vineyards, and shares in private
Italian banlra.
IN THE MIDDLE. Next month the Council
of Europe, the 21-nation legislative organization
based in Strasbourg, will hold a
major meeting to discuss the "financial
assets of criminal organizations." The
British Parliament is ^cussing proposals
to expand the government's wiretapping
authority to include currency transactions.
And even the Swiss, who
typically defend their secrecy provisions,
are having senior-level discussions with
U. S. authorities in March on how to better
coordinate law enforcement efforts
(l»ge 82).
Authorities are also tugging at the
veil hiding criminals' money in the banksecrecy
havens that seemingly flourish
3. The money is wired to a Panamanian .
bank account. Panamanian bank secrecy
laws prevent U.S. investigators from finding
out who owns the account or
looking at transactions in the
account. Profit from the
drug sales Is either heid in the Panamanian
bank or returned as needed to a U.S. bank
account controlled by the drug dealer,
perhaps anottier front company
4. Some of the $250,000 is transferred from
the Panamanian bank to Coiombia, where
it is converted into pesos to buy the next
shipment of cocaine
>
in any country big enough for an airstrip
and small enough to be tempted by
a bonanza of bank deposits. Interpol, the
agency that coordinates international
law enforcement, is designing model
banking legislation for the Caribbean to
be presented at a meeting in Anguilla,
West Indies, in March. "There is now,
more than ever, a worldwide concern
about illegal money flows," says a senior
offlcial at Interpol.
For the banks caught in the middle of
this law enforcement crusade, the stakes
can be large. The $500,000 fine assessed
against Bank of Boston for failing to
report $1.16 billion in cash shipments to
banks in Switzerland and elsewhere in
Europe may turn out to be the least of
its problems. Rhode Island's attorney
general has asked the state's banking
board to review its approval of the Boston
bank's purchase of a Rhode Island
bank. And several local towns have
pulled their deposits out of the bank.
The loss of business in the wake of laundering
charges can be surprisingly severe.
Deak & Co.'s bankruptcy filing
was precipitated in large part by customers
withdrawing their deposits after the
Commission on Organized Crime linked
the company to money launderers.
Although laundering is primarily assorted
with the drug trade, the business
is far more widespread. Wealthy Latin
Americans who secretly shipped money
out of uihospitable or unstable countries,
have drained as much as $50 billion in
capital from developing countries. U. S.
tax collectors estimate they lose as much
as ^ billion a year because of the laundering
of illegal proceeds. Laundering
has even led federal agents to crack a
prostitution ring that was routing its
proceeds through the Bahamas. Major
U. S. corporations have also be^ involved
with laundering. Prosecutors'
ability to trace $96,500 intended for use
as a bribe through banks in the U.S.
and Canada was vital to the recent conviction
of a Southland Corp. executive
for securities law violations.
Lisa Nosv. But the main target in the
U. S. is the $80 billion-a-year drug trade,
a business that is transacted primarily j)
$20 bills. Without the services of money
launderers, America's drug dealers
would be drowning in cash. At the simplest^
level, laundering turns those $20
bills into something safer and more portable.
A suitcase filled with $1 million
worth of 20s weighs more than 100 lb.
and cannot easily be lugged around.
Laundering typically must also transform
cash into money that cannot be
traced. When the wash-loads were smaller,
and federal agents less nosy, the simplest
way to launder was to fly cash out
of the country and run the monev
through httle-nobc^ b^ks in Panama home free. The clean money can then be
the next cocaine shipdone,
but the cash is bulky and airport ment, to finance the fabulous lifestyle of
officials have grow used to spotting drug kingpins, or to buy real estate in
California. For tlieir efforts, launderers
^xes stuffed with bills. Several years typically earn a 3% commission.
recently, it was not hard to find
Irojas carrying $L43 million crammed bankers who wanted the business, parinto
six Mono^ly boxes out of the coun- ticularly in Miami. "There was so much
last monto, officials in Tex- capital pouring out of Latin America
^ ' and two p^sengers during those days it was easy to conof
a pnv^ jet flying $5.9 million out of vince ourselves that it was legitimate—
the country. or close to it," Admits one South Florida
As the volume of dirty cash ballooned, banker. In the words of one disgusted
launderers incr^ingly turned to large judge, Miami became "the Wall Street of
U.S. banks where huge money flows the drug trade." Until a few years ago
The tnck then is to it was common to see courier^ stanS
avmd havmg Ae bank file the required in bank lines with duffie bags, suitcases
$100^ cardboard boxes, and shopping bags
$10,000. Some take the dirert route and crammed with cash. "We didn^ think
!h2r anything of it." admits a Miami banker
510,000 or buy One Miami-based launderer, Beno Ghidescribed
to a congressional commit-
^ sophisticat- tee how he washed $240 million in eight
no J« accounts in the months, equivalent to $1.5 million each
so^e ^ corporations business day. He kept his office above a
so the forms don t provide any useful branch of Miami's Capital Bank and his
mformation. The really energetic laun- couriers were regulaf deposltora^owS
fo™"hv^ f ^emption from the stairs, although the bank was never acretS
fl any complicity. Ghitis' couriers
accepted that they never gave
i '"Ty their full names and didn't wait ar?und
safely in the bank, launderers can then for the money to be counted
send it by wre transfer into the ac- Ghitis maintained good refations with
counts of shell corporations m offshore his bankers. His lauodering oueration
9*^^ Cay- first paid Capital Bank onfr^ighth of 1%
wii counting, then one-half of 1%, and
local bwk-secrecy laws make it virtually finally a monthly fee of $300 000 At
impossible to trace, and the launderer is leastUl the dclid^ bTncrman- •
76 BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH 18,1985
9 COVER STORY
agers in such cities as Miami saw laundering
as one of the easiest ways to
improve their "cash in" figures and gain
favor with the higher-ups.-"'niere was
competition among br^ches for who
could show the moat 'cash in.' A guy on
his way up would have to be crazy to
say no," explains one Miami banker.
OOWO CORPORATE. In response to the
growth in the laundering business, Congress
last year increased the fines for
violations of currency reporting rules,
and law enforcement agencies made
laundering a top priority. That action
made laundering much more labor-intensive.
"Ghitis managed to launder nearly
a quarter of a billion dollars with just
one partner and a few couriers," says
one Miami-based enforcement official.
"We just convicted a ring that needed 16
employees to launder $10 million." And
laundering has moved farther afield, to
other U. S. cities, such as San FVandsco
(table, page 78) and also to Canada. ([Canadian
officials say $4 billion in drug
profits are already running through
their banks, many of which have a
strong presence in Caribbean havens.
To beat the $10,000 reporting requirement,
many couriers have cleaned up
their acts and gone corporate rather
than flamboyant They use leather briefcases
instead of duffle bags, sport telephone
beepers to keep in contact with
their associates, and constantly change
their addresses to avoid detection.
Because tellers have become more
suspicious of transactions just under
$10,000, the size of the laundereris deposits
is going down steadily, to $7,000
and even $5,000. The smaller the
amounts, the more herculean the task.
But the "smurfs," couriers who rmdte
the deposits, have proved to be remarkably
prolific. "On a good day, working in
teams, they can do 30, even 40 transactions
at $5,000 to $7,000 a shot," says
(3erard Kenna, a former Federal Biu-eau
of Investigation agent who, as president
of Profit Protection Inc., helps train
bankers to spot laundering.
LONQ LMES. The most unlikely people
can be smurfs. One group of grandmothers
on the West Coast laundered more
than $25 million through West Coast
banks before they were caught with the
help of an undercover agent who was
working at Security Pacific (Dorp., one of
the banks the grandmas used. To be
more efficient, smurfs target areas
where several banks are close to each
other and, like most people, they avoid
busy banks. 'There is very little smurfing
in New York City," says Charles
Saphos, an Assistant U. S. Attorney in
Florida, "because the lines are too long."
Until recently, money launderers
thought that they could work with impunity,
as long as they kept their operations
separate from their drug trade A NCW MEXICO STATE TROOVER PATROLS THE "COCAINE CORRIOOR" HEAR ALSUQUERQUI
COVER STORV 10 BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH IS, 1985 77
counterparts. But in the 1983 trial of
money launderer Eduardo Orozco Prada,
two new legal precedents were established.
The Assistant U. S. Attorney
prosecuting the case, Michael Feldberg,
convinced the jury that Orozco was a
Hnancial institution in and of himself
and therefore was required to file currency-
transaction reports.
Feldberg also secured the conviction
of Orozco as a co-conspirator who was
"aiding and abetting" drug traffickers,
even though Orozco had a policy of never
dealing directly with anyone who had
a drug conviction. Federal agents working
with Feldberg traced one of the deposits
in Orozco's ledger and discovered
that the initial deposit was transferred
six days later to a shipyard in Alabama,
where the money was used to pay for a
shrimp trawler. The ship, call^ Northern
Edge, was stopped two months later
in Colombian waters and found to be
carrying 14,000 lb. of marijuana.
A HOfi'si RANCH. By following that convoluted
transaction, the jury came to see
the laundering of money as an adjunct
of the narcotics trade. The same principle
garnered a guilty plea from another
launderer in California last year. "If you
can trace the money, you can make them
a co-conspirator now," says U. S. Customs
agent Dennis R. Fagan. "Ihey
don't have to even lay a hand on an
ounce of heroin."
New statutes have also been put on
the books to help use money laundering
to get at oi^nized crime. In certain
cases, authorities can now confiscate the
proceeds of money laundering. That
helps to defray the cost of the agencies'
expensive investigative operations. In
one recent case in Houston, the authorities
seized, among other things, a 120-
acre horse ranch near Dallas.
Such sustained pressure from federal
authorities, combined with the publici^
from the Bank of Boston incident, is
causing divisions within the banl^g
community. Some institutions have decided
to work hand-in-hand with authorities,
while others believe such cooperation
infringes on a customer's right to
Hnancial privacy.
Some banks are attacking the problem
with forceful new internal policies. Under
the guidance of a former FBI agent
who he^ its corporate securiQ', Sun
Banks of Florida Inc. will sell cashier's
checks only to regular customers. The
South Florida bank has also installed
new computer software that spits out a
daily list of accounts with cash transactions
of more than $10,000.
Sun is not the only bank using antilaundering
tactics. After two bank officers
were convicted as part of a money
laundering scheme in 1977, Chemical
W!;3 iidfili tn TsUio hsv--
• INO eMmS (STAHBINO AT «»HT) AND A
Pltl OF CASH AT A U. S. SiNAH HIARINOl
6HrTIS LAUNPSRID $340 MIUIOM IN nOHT
MONTHS. HtS COURISRS WIRI SO
WIU KNOWN AT TNI BANKS MS USIB THAT
THiT NiVER OAVf THEIR FUU NAMES ANB
UFT BEFORi THE MONET WAS COUNTIB
WHERE MOHEY LAUNDERING
SEEMS HOHEST
If FMeral Reserve Banks receive subsiantiaHy
more currency than they send out to
commercial banks (shown by positive numbers),
authorities suapaci laundering
MUlluis of dollars
City 1980 1984
El Paso S-78 $612
JacksonvfllB 1,157 1,394
Los Angeles -136 374
Miami 4,676 5,263
NBahvllle 297 422
Phlladelphls -102 625
San Antonio 458 645
San Francisco -166 1,172
DATA: FEOEnAL RESERVE BOARD
Bank instituted a strict program with
the help of Rudolph W, Giuliani, now
U. S. Attorney for the Southern District
of New York. Chemical has an extensive
training program for its tellers and routinely
monitors the volume of deposits in
all of the bank's 270 branches for sudden,
unexplained cash inflows.
While almost all bankers endorse the
idea that tellers should be on their toes,
few relish the notion that diey should
have to police suspicious transactions.
Luis Vigdor, vice-president of Manfra,
Tordella & Brookes, a foreign-exchange
and precious-metals concern, says his
company turns away people with paper
bags full of money, but he dislikes having
to make such decisions. "How can
you tell what is dirty money?" he asks.
Many bankers believe that the dollars
they see fleeing Latin America are a
response to domestic hyperinflation and
political instability. "Ihe purchase of
dollars is self-preservation in Latin
America," argues Vigdor. "It's just as
important as food there."
'HO QRAY AREA.' Many bankers see the
government's growing interest in morethan-
routine information as a threat to a
customer's right to privacy. They worry
that supplying information undermines
their responsibility to protect privacy in
cases where customers are not charged
with a crime. "The Bank Secrecy Act
does not impose an obligation upon
banks—or imbue them with the authority—
to investigate the activities of their
customers beyond the normal recording
of account information and verification
of customer identity," argues William L
Brown, chairman of Bank of Boston
Corp. "To go beyond this raises serious
questions about invasion of privacy."
Hjalma E. Johnson, president of
Bank of Pasco County and head of the
Florida Bankers Assn., says that his
bank recently turned over some information
to federal agents after reviewing it
at the most senior level, and getting advice
from lawyers. "But we could have a
lawsuit," he says.
Joseph C. Bail, Sun Bank's security
chief, says that oflicials at his bank do
not hesitate to call the authorities when
they smell something fishy. "All of my
law-abiding customers would want us to
give out the information. Anyway, we're
telling the authorities and not the public,"
he says. Ball thinks some of his
colleagues "may be hiding behind the
privacy issue. They don't want the administrative
costs or the trouble. There
is just no gray area there in my mind."
Harmon, of the Coipmission on Organized
Crime, goes further. He links
bankers who launder money to the drug
dealers themselves. "If they choose not
to help in the efforts to prevent narcot-
7B BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH 18, 1965 11 COVER STORY
ICS trafficking, they should know that
every dose of heroin or cocaine, every
bribe, and every bullet which finds its
way into the bo^es of federal agents, is
paid for by the'cash .which they never
opened their eyes wide enough to see,"
says Harmon. Bankers complain that
Harmon is singling out their profession
unfairly, but he insists he is soon going
to apply the same magnifying glass to
attorneys, who are sometimes used to
set up bank accounts for launderers and
then fall back on the attorney-client privilege
when challenged in court
To remove any question about whether
bankers are entitled to turn over information
about suspicious transactions.
Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-N. Y.) and
Representative Bill McCollum Jr. (Rfia.)
are trying to push through legislation
that would amend the Right to Financial
Privacy Act Treasury's Walker
says he supports such modification.
In the new assault on money laundering,
the Treasury will soon begin to
monitor selectively the checks and wire
transfers of about 250 of the country's
most internationally oriented banks. 'The
agency wants to focus on transactions
with banks in countries where U. S. officials
believe bank-secrecy laws are being
used to facilitate laundering. Officials
will also be taking a much ha:^er look at
the banks' lists of customers who are
exempt from filing the currency reports.
Already, Ae Treasury has asked to see
tiie lists of 200 of.Florida's banks.
OAnm Hous. In another major tightening-
up effort, beginning May 7, casinos
will have to file the same forms as
banks for cash transactions. Today, federal
enforcement officers say, one of the
easiest ways to wash money is to go to a
casino, ex^ange the dirty money for
chips, hang around the tables for a few
days, and then exchange the chips for
checks and walk out
But even with all these new laws,
there are still gaping holes in the effort
to stem laundering. Although U. S. officials
have won more cooperation recently
from such traditional banking havens
as the Cayman Islands and Switzerland,
authorities in cities like London, Toronto,
Hong Kong, and Frankfurt do not monitor
large cash transactions. And most
international bankers want things to
stay that way. "Top management is less
worried about snuffing out unsavory depositors
and more worried about preserving
Frankfurt's role as an international
financial center," says an officer
at a major West German bank.
Political factors also complicate international
regulatory efforts. The head of
the City of London's fraud squad, Gerald
J. Squires, has to go through diplomatic
channels to gain access to justice
ministers every time his inquiries lead to
the Continent And even though Swiss
IN COLOMBIA, DIRTY NIOKEY PASSES
THROUGH VERY CLEAH HANDS
W!
hen U. S. agents went looking
for money launderers,
they thought they would
find the sort of cutthroats who run the
Colombian drug trade. They found
some Colombians all right But these
Colombians included a PhD candidate,
a soccer-team owner, and a grandson
of a supreme court justice. "These are
not your typical slimy criminal hastai^,"
says Charles Saphos, an Assistant
U. S. Attorney assigned to Miami's
Operation Greenback. "They've
got education and class."
Much to their chagrin, agents have
not had great success establishing a
direct link between the launderers and
the narcotrafieantes. The money launderers
work free-lance, combining their
laundering businesses with—or concealing
them in—import-export firms,
travel agencies, or legitimate currencyexchange
houses. Some examples:
• Roberto Botero was convict^ in the
U. S. of not filhig currency transaction
reports while laundering $57 million
through a Miami bank. He and his
brother Hernan, who will soon stand
trial on similar charges, come from the
cream of Colombian society. Their family-
owned Hotel Nutibara in Medellin is
"sort of the Waldorf-Astoria of Colombia,"
according to Joel Hirschhorn, Roberto's
lawyer. The family's vast holdings
include real estate, grain-trading
companies, and a soccer team.
• ^no Ghitis, who laundered nearly a
quarter of a billion dollars in eight
months, came from Colombia's prosperous
and education-conscious middle
class. Ghitis studied engineering, earning
a master's degree and cr^ta toward
a doctorate, before returning to
the family's travel agency in Call
• Gustavo Ronderos, who entered a
conditional guilty plea last summer to
charges of conspiracy to aid narcotics
trafficking, is the grandson of a justice
on the Colombian Supreme Court His
father, a businessman, was a colonel in
the Colombian army. Ronderos took a
fancy to golf during his school days in
Atlanta and twice won Colombia's amateur
golf championship.
The Boteros, Ghitis, and Ronderos
had more to offer than pedigrees. They
offer^ financial expertise. They of
fered legitimate overseas contacts that
the traffickers sorely lacked. And,
timiugh their travel agencies and money
exchange houses, the launderers
had the pesos the traffickers needed to
run their operations, and had more legitimate
customers for their dollars.
But the narcotrafieantes must launder
hundreds of millions in dollar profits.
Thus the launderers at times must
"lay off" part of their contracts to other
exchangers who can help augment
the peso supply. Even then, there may
not be enough pesos. During the narcotics
boom in the late 1970s, there
were so many , illegal dollars floating
around Colombia that the black-market
price for dollars was actually lower
than the official rate.
•MATiOHAL SMwrr.' Many of the best of
Colombian society saw very little
wrong with laundering money. Accordiug
to Botcro's lawyer, Hirschhorn,
"everyone in Colombia launders money,
not just the drug dealers." The reason
is Colombia's tough currency restrictions.
Colombians cannot legally
keep overseas bank accounts. And
there is a $5,000 annual cap on dollar
purchases for Colombians who wish to
travel overseas.
For years, upstanding Colombians
have turned to gray-market launderers
when they wanted dollars for travel or
for nest eggs that would be safe from
peso inflation. Ghitis said his customers
were coffee exporters trying to
evade taxes. As he explained to a U. S.
Senate subcommittee, "The national
sport in Colombia is to cheat the Colombian
govemmenL"
U. S. agents say that the launderers
they have apprehended have shown remarkable
cool—and little remorse.
"They think because they're not touching
the drugs they're clean," says one
Internal Revenue Service agent. But
that may be changing, and not just
because-of the new vigilance in the
U. S. The Colombian government's decision
this year to extradite Heman Botero,
despite a national campaign
mounted by his family to keep him
home, has raised the money-laundering
stakes. "Ifs becoming less socially acceptable
and a lot more dangerous,"
says the agent.
With time and more pressure, the
traditional money launderers may drop
out of the business and be replaced by
relatives of drug dealers. The dealers
"may get tired of paying commissions,"
says Bonni G. 'Tischler, director
of financial investigations for the U. S.
Customs Service. "And there is nothing
to stop them from sending their
sons to go^ schools, too."
By Carta Anne Bobbins in Miami, witk
FlisabetA Ames in Los Angeles
COVER STORY 12 BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH 18. 19SS 79
•
auttiorities are supposed to be cooperating
with U. S. officials on financial investigations
involving narcotics cases, there
are often lengthy delays. "It can take
years to get records from some of these
countries," says former prosecutor Feldberg,
now with Shea & Gould, 'if
they're any good on the other side, they
can keep two steps ahead."
MIH1M0T. In some South American countries
the hurdles can be even worse.
"Very often," says Representative William
J. Hughes (D-N. J.), chairman of the
House subcommittee on crime, "corruption
goes all the way to the top in some
of those countries." When corruption is
not the problem, there is always the issue
of sovereignty. The Colombian government,
for instance, would not allow
two of its naval officers to testify in
New York at the trial of launderer Oroz-
CO. When prosecutor Feldberg took a
gamble and flew down to Colombia in
May, 1983, to get the testimony, he was
hardly met wi5i open arms. "There was
BT IXTRABITINO BICARDe AMD SAID
MVOH JATTER, CDLOMBIA IMBBOVED
ITS RILATIONS WITH THi U. S.
a mini-riot going on," recalls Feldberg.
"A lot of people there were DEA targets."
Relations have improved somewhat
since President Belisario Betancur
allowed four Colombians, including Ricardo
Pavon Jatter and his brother Said,
to be extradited to the U. S. to face narcotics
and laundering charges. But such
cooperation is still not automatic.
Without effective global enforcement,
money launderers can simply take their
business elsewhere. The New Mexican
state trooper learned that fact when a
map was found in a money smuggler's
car showing routes that could be taken
to avoid the highways cruised by the
aggressive New Mexico state police.
"They've quit 1-40," says the trooper.
"They're taking other routes now."
By Sarah Bartlett and G. David Wallace
in New York, with Carla Anne Bobbins in
Miami, Lois Therrien in Boston, Ronald
Grover and Blanca Riemer in Washington,
John Rossant in Paris, and other bureau
reports
THE lAHG AND GROWING LIST OF HOT-MONEY HAVENS
ome of the world's most desirable
havens for laundering money
cannot be found in a Guide
MickelirL The havens are listed in a
.guide by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration. And if Switzerland,
Panama, Hong Kong, and other fourstar
venues of discreet banking lose
their luster in the crackdown on the
money trade, there will be no shortage
of new accommodations for hot money.
A quick tour of upstart havens
would head south from Miami, to the
Turks & Caicos Islands in the West
Indies. Crossing the Atlantic, a likely
stop would be the Channel Islands off
the coast of France. Half a world away
in the Pacific is Vanuatu in New Hebrides.
From there, it's a relatively short
hop north to Nauru.
Nauru is a recent addition to the
tour. It may be only an 8-sq.-mi. atoH,
but the 8,000 people on what used to be
called Pleasant Island enjoy such amenities
as not paying taxes and receiving
free health care, all thanks to the
island's valuable phosphate exports.
The problem is that the island's phosphate
rock is expected to run out in
about 15 years. So Nauru has set itself
up as a tax and banking haven. A cor>
poration can be charter^ there by mail
in only a few days.
The Naurus of the world explain
why law enforcement authorities sometimes
feel that trying to eliminate money
laundering by going after bank secrecy
havens is like trying to eradicate
the common housefly vrith a rock. But
bank secrecy, by shielding an account's
true owner or transactions, is crucial to
big laundering operations. So law enforcement
officials are pressing their
attack—with mixed success.
Two focal points for U. S. authorities
have been Switzerland and Panama.
John M. Walker Jr., Assistant Secretary
for enforcement at the Treasury
Dept, says the Administration now has
a ^tter relationship with those countries.
But frictions remain.
ATTACK ON SSCRBCV. The Swiss recently
permitted U.S. authorities to get
some secret account information they
said they needed to investigate an insider
trading case involving Santa Fe
Industries Inc. Even so, it took three
years and a tortuous slog through
Swiss courts. That was b^use the
Swiss allow their banks to provide information
only when Swiss law is violated.
And insider trading and tax evasion
are not crimes in Switzerland.
U.S. and Swiss officials plan to meet
again in March to trade gripes.
Panama seems even less cooperative.
Interpol officials say Panama, which
stan<h to get the money scared away
from other havens, refuses to attend a
March meeting, where lawmen want to
draft bank-secrecy guidelines for the
Caribbean. Panama is widely regarded
as the first stop for laundered money,
which is then rerouted to havens in
Europe and Asia for more cleansing.
But secrecy is under attack, even
from within some havens. In Switzerland,
the Socialist Party and Third
World pressure groups want to stop
Swiss banks from acting as a conduit
for capital fleeing from developing
countries. Although the Socialists
failed to get the laws changed, pressure
from them and from other countries
means more openness is likely.
Reducing secrecy in well-established
centers, however, pushes launderers to
other havens. The 1970 Bank Secrecy
Act prompted money runners to switch
their U. S. accounts to the Caribbean.
Now,- says a bank officer in Germany,
where only limited secrecy prevails: "If
we suddenly gave up our confidentiality,
a lot of big depositors—including
some launderers—would pack up and
move their money to Africa, Latin
America, or Hong Kong."
Some money might not move that
far. Austria, which has a secrecy law,
is already angling to grab accounts
from the Swiss. And money laundering
is moving into some areas where Westem
officials see no hope for cooperation.
Bulgaria, say Interpol officials,
has become a new laundering hotbed
for the drug trade, and even such
places as Libya have made known their
interest in handling drug money.
By G. David Wallace in New York, with
John Templeman in Lausanne and bureau
reports
82 BUSINESS WEEK/MARCH 18,1985 COVER STORY
13
© 1985 Newsweek, Inc. Reproduced by the Library of Congress, Congressional
Research Service with permission of copyright claimant.
Newsweek SPECIAL REPORT
U.S. agents become the latest casualties in a vicious
war between lawmen and Latin American drug lords.
Enrique Camarena Salazar bad just left
the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara to
keep a lunch date with his wife. As he
walked away from the btiilding, the 37*
yearK)ld U.S. dnig^enforcement agent was
intercepted by four gunmen who shoved
him into a getaway car and rapidly drove
Salzad Avianea Jet Arrests are up—end se are suppHea
away. Three hours later, Alfredo Zavala
Avelar, a Mexican pilot who flew occasion*
al missions for the American Drug riiforce*
ment Administration, set off to drive home
from the airport. He, too, was snatched at
gunpoint. Neither man has been seen since.
Camarena had been investigating several
Guadalajara-based drug syndicates. Because
of this investigation, c^e-named Operation
Padrino (Godfather), the DBA had
already seized 3,600 pounds of cocaine and
S20 million—an ! the traffickers were clearly
bent on revenge.
Camarena's wife alerted the DEA office
after her husband failed to return home by
the following morning. But when she and
the senior DEA agent in Guadalajara approached
the local police, they were told
that no search could begin without "official
notification." For three days the locals dawdled.
Only after DEA Administrator Francis
Mullen Jr. flew to Mexico and, according
to an associate, "started banging on
dttks," did the Mexican authorities launch
a full-scale search. Infuriated, Attorney
General William French Smith
drafted a cable to his Mexican
counterpart; it was so sharply
-worded that State Department
officials warned him it could jar
relations with Mexico. "They
can't do this to our agent," he
said, brushing aside the ^plomats.
And he urged Ronald Reagan
to phone Mexico's President
Miguel de la Madrid with a call
for action.
RepercuMii—i In the end,
Reagan chose to send a discreet
note underscoring his personal
concern. But the repercussions
of the twin kidnappings won't
end there. Camarena and Zavala
are only the latest casualties in a
war against the evil empire of
cocaine. Its realm extends from
the coca fields of Peru, Bolivia
and Ecuador to the jungle refineries of Colombia
and Brazil. Its outposts are remote
piers and airstrips in Mexico and the Caribbean;
its ports of entry dot the American
South and Southwest. With profits running
into billions of dollars, the cocaine lords vie
with Third World governments in wealth
and power. The traffickers tried to blow up
the U.S. Embassy in Bogota last November,
and administration officials fear that they
are undermining the fragile political systems
of Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, the Bahamas
and Jamaica. "There is no greater destabilizing
force for democratic government
than the power of the narcotrafico," says
Gustavo Sanchez, Bolivia's under secretary
of the interior.
Until recently, many Latin American
Abandoned refinery In Tranquliandla,Celombia:
Camarena, police Inspect a Colombian stash:
Refining chemicals, Reagan with de la Madrid,
14 14 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23. 1985
}espit« ma«sl¥« seliures and arrasts, tht fight against the flow of drugs has ortly begun
the American Consulate in Guadalajara: Some hard feelings after two mysterious kidnappings
NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 25, 1985 15
countries shrugged off their drug traffickers,
pairtly because they viewed narcotics as
a U.S. problem, and partly because they
were more worried about left-wing terrorists
and guerrillas. That attitude is giving
way to a sense of alarm. "There is hardly an
area of political activity or institutional life
that in some way has not been affected by
drug corruption," says Colombia's Justice
Minister ^rique Parejo Gonzalez. The
drug lords have vowed to kill Colombian
officials from the president on down. And
NEWSWEEK has learned that they've CFF*
fered S3SO,000 to anyone who will kidnap
Mullen or another high DEA official, intelligence
sources report that the kingpins
want to exchange Mullen for the six Colombian
accused traffickers in custody in the
United States and Spain.
The empire grows Uke a poisonous weed.
So great are its profits that every local victory
against the cocaine lords only seems to
open markets in other areas. In many rural
areas, the drug kings are seen as Robin
Hoods, spreading wealth in countries that
are desperately poor. Snowy riches have
corrupted officisds and produced strange
alliances. Colombia's neo-Nazi drug loi^
Carlos Lehder Rivas, has offered to cast his
lot with the leftist M-19 guerrillas, while
peasant coca growers in Peru are tied to
Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. And the
DEAhasproduced limited evidencethatthe
governments of Nicaragua and Cuba wink
at drug dealings that bring in badly needed
Western currency.
Zeah The DEA is fighting back with
courage and energy. At times, however, its
zeal has produced frictions with foreign
governments, which argue that they are
already doing all that they can. Latin American
diplomats point out that the United
States, with its huge appetite for cocaine, is
equally to blame. "Colombia will produce
the crops as long as there are consumers,"
says Guillermo Angulo, Colombia's consul
general in New York. "When there are IK>
consumers, there will be no production."
The consumption only grows. Between
59 and 78 tons of cocaine en tered the United
States in 1983. The State Department reported
last week that coca production had
risen by one-third over the past year alone.
And U.S. Customs agents in Miami discovered
2,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a
shipment of Valentine flowers on an
Avianca 747 cargo jet from Bogota. The
Reagan administration's south Florida interdiction
program has scored other successes.
But the heat on Florida has led entrepreneurs
to open other points of entry all
across the southern border. Long-range aircraft
are flying cocaine from Colombia into
Louisiana, Mississippi, the Southwest and
the CaroUnas. In the "Deliverance" country
of Georgia, former moonshiners have
turned from white lightning to coke. As
supplies increase, the price drops and the
dope of the rich and famous now threatens
to tap out cokeheads from every social class.
Mexico has become a major stop on
15
SPECIAL REPORT
ConfltciUd plan** In Hemcstsad, Flaj Cocain* ports of tntry dot th* U.S. South and Southw*st
Latin America's cocaine trail. Until the
mid-1970s, Mexico was by far the largest
supplier of American heroin, and it exported
huge quantities of marijuana as well.
But in 1974, the government launched an
extensive eradication program, spraying
growing areas with herbicides. By 1978,
the Mexican share of the U.S. heroin market
bad dropped from 80 percent to just 30
percent, and Mexican traffickers later
turned to cocaine to fill the void. Now as
much as a third of all U.S. cocaine is
smuggled in from south of the border.
According to government records, nearly
2,600 pounds of the powder have been
seized in Mexico since 1982.
The new cocaine traffickers selected
the pretty, tree-lined city of
Guadalajara as their headquarters.
It was close to a number of
clandestine airstrips and two major
fairways to the United States,
and its broming economy and
real-estate market made laundering
money relatively convenient
Most important, however, was its
proximi^ to the marijuana and
poppy fields of northwest Mexico—
and the families who had developed
drug-running experience
in exploiting them.
L«KK TO crimp those families,
the DEA organized Operation Padrino,
the investigation to which
Camarena was assigned. The drug
runners suffered extraordinary
losses. Because of Padrino and
other operations, one ring alone
had lost some $26 million and
6,000 pounds of coke. Last October
a DEA agent's car was sprayed with
machine-gun fire. In recent we^ more
than half a dozen Mexican policemen have
been killed in similar incidents. Last week,
four days after the Guadalajara kidnappings,
a man walked into the U.S. attorney's
office in El Paso brandishing a gun. A secretary
screamed and dropped to the floor. An
FBI agent drew his own pistol and pursued
the intruder, but the gunman got away.
By the time Mexican authorities finally
began searching for the kidnap victizns, every
trafficker known to live in Guadalajara
had already left town. "Every time you hit a
place, it's empty," the frustrated Mullen
A DEA raid in Florida: Fighting back with eeurag* and energy
!6 16
told a Mexican police chief. As the
investigation in Mexico fiTzled,
the Americans began to act on
their own. The U.S. Embassy
posted a $50,000 reward for information
about the kidnappings. In
Washington, DEA officii gathered
in their "war room" to field
leads from all over the United
States and Mexico. Every DEA
office was asked to call informants
for any hint of information. Allpoints
bulletins were issued for
possible suspects, and the Customs
Service began searching every
car that tried to cross the
Mexican border. "I think in Mexico
the problem is far deeper than
the government is willing to acknowledge,"
Mullen told NEWSWEEK.
"The traffickers are virtually
untouchable in many areas. I
think it's out of control."
Sboot-out: Among the suspects
in the kidnappings was the Caro
clan, whose leader, Rafael Caro
Quintero, is estimated to be worth
hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to law-enforcement authorities,
the Caros have launched
acampaign of intimidation against
Mexican police. Lut November, a godson
of Rafael Caro, together with four of bis
friends, shot it out with Guadalajara cops,
blasting away with AK-47 assault rifles
from behind an armor-plated Ford sedan.
Three of the guiunen were killed along with
three policemen. After that incident, say
local sources, a $5,000 bounty for the killing
of any policeman was offer^. Since then,
several cops have been murdered after
responding to complaints about supposed
domestic quarrels. Police are even more
suspicious of the Gallardo family, said to
be the leading drug family in Guadalajara.
U.S. officials have not ruled out the possibility
that the abductions may have
been the work of Colombians or
Mexicans on a Colombian payroll,
but they believe that one of
the Gua^ajara clans was behind
the crimes.
Police corruption has allowed
the drug lords to flourish. Most
Mexican drug agents earn less
than $400 a month, and the temptation
to supplement their salaries
with bribes is enormous. Critics of
the police cite a raid last November
in the northern state of Chihuahua
that netted 10,000 tons of
marijuana plants—equal to nearly
half the tonnage of pot seized in
Mexico over the past 11 years. The
critics believe an operation of that
size could only have been main-
^ tained with the complicity of some
Mexican authorities.
U.S. officials are far more encouraged
by the drug fight in Colombia,
where some 75 percent of
NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 25, 1985
the cocaine that reaches the United States
is refined. There is a new awareness
among the countries of Latin America and
the C^bbean that UlegBl drug production
and trafficking are dangerous to their own
societies," says Langhome Motley, assistant
secretary of state for Inter-American
Affairs. Colombians were shocked last
year when a once healthy Bogota bank
collapsed after a narcotraficante reportedly
witb^ew his deposits. The drug gangs also
seemed particularly fond of the national
airline, Avianca. Tlie S600 million bust in
Miami last week marked the 34th time in
five years that Avianca planes had been
found with cocaine aboard. The Colombian
government is fighting back: police
officii estimated last year that their regular
forces were taking one casualty a day.
Colombian officials "see that the money
engendered by the drug trade can be a
destabilizing influence," says Jack Lawn,
deputy administrator of the DEA. "They
know that the money will be used to support
terrorism in Colombia."
The Colombian police say they seized
40,000 pounds of cocaine paste, base and
finished powder last year. They also reported
the destruction of 27.5 million coca
plants and 262 co':aine labs. Altogether,
they claimed to have made more than 1,800
drug-related arrests. The DEA has also organiTMt
Operation Chemcon, a project designed
to track large purchases of ether and
acetone, chemicals essential to refining cocaine.
The DEA has been tracking shipments
of the chemicals and alerting South
American police and customs officials
whenever a large delivery is about to be
made. The price of a S5-gallon drum of
ether, which would cost a U.S. hospital
about SSOO, has now skyrocketed to between
$6,000 and $7,000 on the Colombian
black market
Despite such efforts, the drug lords are
still in business, in a report that warmly
congratulated the Colombian government
the U.S. State Department conceded last
week that coca production had actually fncreased
last year, although by a margind
amount Colombia's President Belisario
Betancur was embarrassed last year to discover
that his own press staff had been
infiltrated. Spanish police had broken up a
smuggling ring which was shippinjg cocaine
in film canisters from the international section
of the press office—in a Colombian
diplomatic pouch. Two weeks ago, police
arrested Roman Medina Bedoya, the head
of the press office, and charg^ him with
complicity.
Strategy: The DEA has set a strategy of
fighting the traffic at its source. That is
easier said than done in the Andes, where
the drug begins its long progress to cocaine
as the lowly coca leaf. The Reagan adminis-
ALONG THE COCAINE TRAIL: MONEY, MURDER AND POLITICS
From leal to paste to refined powder, cocaine makes its way northward from growws
and refiners in South America to dealers and consumers in the United States. The
size and many turrrs in the flow make It extremely iSfficuK for the U.S. Drug
Enforcwnent Agency to stop enterprising and ruthless narcotraHcantes.
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1Peasant farmers, abetted by comqit
gener^ and polltieim en the right
and rural guerriiiai on the lefL cuithrata
300,000 acres of coca fields in Peru, Bo-
Hvia, Colombia and Ecuador. Last year
tNy harvested an estimated 135^
tens of the raw coca leaf, nrhich told for
about $4 a pound.
2After the farmers precen the
coca leaf Into a dry paste, jungle
labs inCelombia use ether, acetone and
hydrochloric acid to refine the paste
Into cocaine. The drug cartel ships the
powder north by air and sea.
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SPECIAL REPORT
tration warned Bolivia last January that if it
did not improve its record in fighting drugs,
Washington might have to hold up a SS8
millinn aid package for drug suppression
and rural development. Since then there
have been a number of vigorous police and
Army raids (page 21). But not a single acre
of coca has been destroyed. The cash crop
still brings in nearly $2 billion a year—three
times the amount of Bolivia's official exports.
Yet the government of President Hernw
Siles Zuazo, a reformer, has been an
improvement over its predecessors. According
to U.S. officials, former President
Luis Garcia Meza and his chief of security,
CoL Luis Arce Gomez, were per^ally
involved wi± the cocaine trade during the
early 1980s. "Siles has managed to get the
Maria, but their efforts are directed exclusively
against the guerrillas. While traders
openly deal in cocaine paste, government
soldiers stand by to maintain law and order.
Smuggling is easy in Peru. Not only does
the country have a long and poorly patrolled
coastline, but iu Amazon valley offers
an open gateway to Colombia. More
and more Colombians are appearing in the
area. "We know they're here," says a U.S.
law-enforcement officer, "because more
dead bodies are turning up." Efforts to curb
them now threaten to divert the traffic to
Brazil. Until last summer police considered
Brazil mostly a transit point for drugs
bound for the United Sutes and Europe.
But during the final six months of 1984
Brazilian police discovered and uprooted 9
million epadu plants, a variety of coca. The
Amazon offers almost limitless potential as
Sandinista government ofNicara^a. Early
last year a DEA informant was hired to fly
3,000 pounds of cocaine from Colombian
kingpin Carlos Lehder to Miami via Managua.
During a change of planes, the informant
claimed, the cargo was unloaded by
Nicaraguan soldiers directed by Frederico
Vaughan, an aide to Tomas Borge, Nicaragua's
minister of the interior. However,
U.S. intelligence analysts concede that
there is no conclusive evidence that the
Nicaraguan government was directly involved.
it is possible, says one, that the
smuggling episode was simply the work of
"lower officials acting for personal profit."
Whatever the possibilities may be, cocaine
profits and corruption now soil the
political fabric of governments in a way that
would once have been thought impossible.
Last December a Bahamian commission of
inquiry issued a scathing report
portraying a country overrun with
drugs, corruption and moral decay.
"Hie commission found that
drug activity had "damaged all
strata of Bahamian society." Although
the commission found no
direct evidence that Prime Minister
Lynden Pindling was involved
in the trafficking, it certainly
raised some doubts. Pindling's
bank account contained some
$230,000 in unexplained deposits,
the commission said, and there
were ethical questions about nearly
$3.5 million received by him
and his wife. In addition, Pindling
bad received more than $500,000
from his former business partner
Everette Bannister, a man the
commission accused of soliciting
thousands of dollars from drug
smugglers. Pindling and Bannister
have denied any wrongdoing.
GBtttR There was a time when
cocaine was seen as ircejlaatuivvewlyj
harmless compared to heroin. No
IC more. The issue is not simply one
of measuring the danger to the
health of individual drug abusers.
Drying coca leaves In Boilwie: The government le out of the bueineea, but Ithae not eradicated the crop
government out of the cocaine business,"
said one State Department officer.
A promising, if still sporadic, eradication
effort in Peru is now tangled in the government's
fight against the Shining Path guerrillas.
Early last year, an elite police unit was
sent to the interior to force local farmers to
join a U.S.-backed crop-substitution program
or lose their land. Peasants enrag^ at
the central government and the United
States for attempting to eliminate the one
crop that promised growers any kind of
return began to took with more favor at the
Shining Path. Last November unidentified
assailants brutally murdered 19 Peruvians
at a coca-eradication center in the upper
Huallaga Valley, and the program was temporarily
halted. It has resumed now, but the
authorities seem to have lost their enthusiasm
for fighting drugs. Today, Army troops
are in fi^ strength in the area of Tingo
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a drug base. It is vast, impossible to patrol
yet near cities linked closdy to the outside
world. "It's a potential paradise for drug
traffickers," says Arthur Castillo, a government
drug buster in Brasilia.
As cocaine moves northward toward the
United States, Cuba and Nicaragua lie
astride the drug path. Ideolo^cal rightwingers
in the United States have long suspected
Cuba of dabbling in drugs to earn
hard currency and poison Americans. Intelligence
sources say there is evidence that
C^ba regularly gives safe passage to smuggler
a'rcrait of Jamaican registry. Drug runners
can also use Cuban waters to skirt U.S.
sea patrols. But lawmen say there has been
no hard evidence so far that Cuba is producing
or refining cocaine, or that it has been
directly involved in distributing drugs in the
United States.
Another case has been lodged against the
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but of correcting a threat to the welfare
of entire governments. Self-righteousness
won't help. "How do you tell some starving
farmer in Peru that he has to give up the
money he makes from growing coca," asks
one U.S. diplomat, "when back home the
drug culture is glorified by glittering head
shops on Hollywood Boulevard?" What is
needed is more support for lawmen and
better cooperation between the United
States and Latin America. It is not sensible
to argue or dawdle while the empire of
cocaine grows stronger. "This is a war to the
death," says Colombia's Justice Minister
Parejo. And neither the United States .tor
its neighbors to the south can risk the consequences
of losing.
HARRY ANDERSON with ELAINE SHANNON
ia Waihington, RON MOREAU In Bogota. JOSEPH
CONTRERAS in Cuadalajara. JOSEPH HARMES
in Mexico City, MAC MARCOLIS in La Paz.
MICHAEL SMITH in Lima and bunau reports
NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23. 1983'
Colombia's Kings of Coke
A cartel of ruthless smugglers protects its interests with bribes—and guns.
Carlos Lehder is the reputed narcotrafi*
cante numero uno—« long-haired coke
smuggler who bought an entire island in the
Bahamas and courted women in his private
disco with Beatles. Joan Baez and Rolling
Stones records. Pablo Escobar is "Robin
Hood"tohisneighborsinMedeHin, whereke
built housing/or the poor. Drug-enforcement
agentssay he rose from dealing small bags of
cocaine to amassing a $2 billion forturu,
winning an alternate seat in Colombia's Congress
on the side. Jorge Ochoa, Gilberto
Rodriguez. Neman Botero and Conzalo Rodriguez
are cut from the same cloth—cocky
adventurerswhofiaunttheirmillions.buying
everything from banks and hotels to soccer
teamsandfighting bulls.
Together they have become Colombia's
cocaine overlords—a small, tightknit
clique of smugglers almost as rich and powerful
as the Colombian government itself.
From heavily armed strongholds deep in the
Andes, according to U.S. drug-enforcement
ofBdals, they refine and smuggle S2 billion a
year in coke to the United States and the rest
oftheworld.Toprotecttfaeirextensive interests,
a number have allegedly formed their
own little cartel, buying as many opponents
as they can, murdering some of those they
can't. An all-out manhunt by Colombian
authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Adininistration has brought a few of them to
justice. But the strongest are still at large.
They remain so powerful that last year they
were able to approach Colombia's attorney
general with a startling offer: if the government
agreed not to extradite them to the
United States, they would help pay off the
country's $13 billion foreign debt.
Lehder (alias "Joe Leather" and "Joe
L^on") is allegedly the biggest of the drug
kings. Hestarted small. Theson ofa German
enpneer who moved to Colombia, he grew
up in the town of Armenia in the department
of Quindio. At 18 he left for the United
States. In 1973 he was arrested in Detroit for
smug^ng stolOT cars from South America.
He skipped bail, but was arrested again in
Miami for possession of200 pounds of marijuana.
He served nearly two years at Danbury
Correctional Institution, then in 1975
was put on a plane to Bogotl
Dnbniiiansr In 1979 the DEA learned
Aat Lehder had purchased Norman's Cay
in the Bahamas. He was listed as the president
of Air Montes, a Bahamian corporation;
but the DEA was convinced that his
real business was ferrying marijuana and
cocaine from Colombia to the United States.
He built a 3,300-foot runway protected by
radar, bodyguards and Doberman attack
dogs. He also commanded a Beet of aircraft—
some bought, according to a DEA
NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 25, IMS
informant, through an associate of Bahamas
Prime Minister Lynden Pindling. The
allegation has not been proved, and Pindling
has denied any involvement with Lehder.
While in the Bahamas, Lehder lived in a
sprawling villa. He owned a yacht, 19 cars
and four bicycles. One DEA informant said
he spent his time with fugitive financier
Robm Vesco, wandering around Norman's
Cay shooting automatic weapons at lizards
and coconuts. Another DEA informant said
Lehder threatened to kill one U.S. federal
judge per week ifhe was captured.
in 1981 a U.S. grand jury indicted Lehder
for cocaine smuggling, and about that time
he moved his base of operations back to
Colombia. He bought a farm at La Tebaida,
just outside Armenia. He purchased a local
newspaper, the Quindio Libre, which he
used to make strident attacks on U.S. and
Colombian officials. He also indulged his
taste for wild parties and women. At his
private resort, the Hotel Posada Alemana,
he built a discoteca dedicated to John Lennon;
its centerpiece was a statue of Lennon,
nude except for a helmet and a guitar—with
A bust In the Andes meunta nt: Oeclaring a 'war without quarter' on the cocaine trade
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A Colombtan Anny antidrug unit Combing the jungtt with hor$>i, tanks and U.S. chopptrt
abulkt hole through the heart Young women
flocked to his side, attracted by his moviestar
looks and charisma.
Lehder had another bizarre obsession—
Adolf Hitler. He recently called Hitler "the
greatest warrior in history"; he also stated
that all the Jews killed by the Nazis during
World War II had "died only working in the
fields and the factories." To forward his
views he formed a fanatically nationalist
political party, the Movimieiito Civico Latino
Nacional(MCLN). Hundredsofpeople
went to Lebder's "patriotic Saturday" rallies—
drawn, according to some reports, by
SOO- and 1,000-peso notes handed out
at the gate. Lehder is also alleged to
have funded a right-wing paramilitary
group called Death to Kidnappm
(MAS). MAS is charged with
killing dozens of leftists and labor
organizers; it is also said to number
former police and military officials
among its ranks.
Hideout; A^er Colombian President
Belisario Betancur vowed to
begin enforcing a two-year-old extradition
treaty with the United States
last spring, Lehder went underground.
In May police and soldiers
raided a hideout in the Llanos, Colombia'seastem
plains, and found evidence
that Lehder h^ been there;
they also found bulldozers, barracks
and laboratory facilities capable of
processing 6 to 10 tons of cocaine per
month. L^der was next sighted on
May 28, by a drug pilot working undercover
for the DEA in Colombia.
Theinformant said hesaw Lehder and
acrew load more than 3,000 poundsof
cocaine onto a plane bound for Nicaragua.
When that aircraft crashed,
Ochoa provided a Titan plane, ac-
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cording to the informant The pilot flew the
plane to Managua. There, according to the
informant he handed the cocaine over to
Escobar and Frederico Vaughan, an aide to
Nicaragua's minister of the interior.
Last month Lehder brazenly invited a
Spanish television crew to meet h'f" at a
hideout near the Brazilian border. He was
surrounded by machine gun-toting bodyguards
and looked eerily cool and seU'-confident
in a sleeveless black shirt. He didn't
deny being Colombia's premier drug trafficker,
but he tried to portray himself as a
revolutionary with a vision. He referred to
Embassy bombins victim in Bogota: A eocaina iinfc?
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cocaine as a "Latin American atom bomb"
that would win respect from imperialists. He
made a vague—and ideologically ambiguous—
threat to join forces either with disgruntled
military officers or with Colombia's
Marxist M-19 guerrilla movement. He
also bragged of escaping a recent government
sweep through the inland.
While Lehder operated out of the Bahamas
and the jungle, DEA authorities say
Escobar play^front man for the coke kings.
In 1976 he and five other men were arrested
in Medellin for selling 39 pounds of cocaine.
They were never convicted: two of the policemen
who apprehended them were assassinated,
and the arrest record disappeared
from thecourthouse. Over the next few years
Escobar grew increasingly wealthy—ostensibly
in the "tourist development" business.
He acquired extensive lanid holdings, built
a huge soccer complex and collected a personal
zoo with 4 giraffes, 2 Indian eleph^ts
and lOhippopotamuses. Heand Lehder also
did what they could to acquire political
influence. Escobar won his alternate seat in
Congress and used it to lobby agairut Colombia's
extradition treaty with the United
States. In 1982 the two men bragged of
having donated SI million to Colombia's
two main political parties, the Liberals and
the Conservatives. They also formed what
came to be known as the "Medellin cartel"—
a wealthy clan that was said by locals
to "own" many of the officials, judges and
policemen in the area.
ffiue JcanB Like Lehder, Escobar went to
ground after Betancur's extradition threat
last spring. U.S. officials had long been after
him. In 1982 he was cited by the DEA as the
source of 1,197 pounds of cocaine seized in
New Iberia, La. When Customs officials in
Miami made the largest U.S. coke seizure
ever—3,800 pounds found in a shipment
of blue jeans on a plane from
Colombia—the DEA again accused
Escobar. Where he was hiding was
unclear. Escobar wasoneofthosewho
met with Colombia's attorney general
, in late May; later he was seen in Nicaragua,
by the DEA informant. It is on
the basis of that Nicaraguan sighting
that the United States finally issued an
extradition request for Escobar.
Another member of the Medellin
cartel was Jorge Ochoa. The Ochoa
family ranch, on the Caribbean coast
between Cartagena and Barranquilla,
features a small airstrip, allegedly for
shipping cocaine, along with several
swimming pool^ a fleet of motor
launches, a vast open-air zoo and a
bullring. Ochoa's father, Fabio, raises
prize fighting bulls; his son has been
charged with smuggling 120 of them
from Spain. In 1977 DEA agents
linked Ochoa to a 60-pound cocaine
shipment seized in Miami. Later they
found evidence that he and his bodyguards
were selling coke in major cities
on the East Cout. Aided by DEA
intelligence, Spanish authorities fi-
0 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 25, 1985
The 'Leopards' Strike
Afitr years of truckling to drug lords, Bolivia is beginning
to fight back. Newsweek's Mac Margolis accompanied government
troops on two recent raids deep in cocaine country.
His report-
It was nearly dusk when 15 Army jeeps roared into the '"ain
square of Oiza, a Quechua Indian >dUage in the remote Vaile
Alto region of Bolivia. The Sunday market was in progress and
the square was jammed with produce stalls, vendors and buyers.
The police convoy pulled up in the marketplace, blocking the
main exit, and 160 camouflage-suited "Leopards," as this antidrug
unit is called, jumped out of their jeeps and began to fire
M-I and M-2 carbines into the air. The villagers scattered,
^bbing their belongings and vanishing
into the web of dirt alleys that
suiTounds the square. The Leopards
collared any peasant carrying a suspicious-
looking bundle In all, the soldiers
confiscated nearly 100 satchels
of coca leaves and 150 pounds of
"paste," the dry, whitish powder that
is made into cocaine.
The Leopards barked orders. Few
of the Quechua Indians understood
the soldiers' Spanish, and few of the
soldiers, who are mostly from highland
Aymara Indian tribes, spoke
Quechua. But a warning round from
a semiautomatic lifle or a rough
shove against the village's mud-andbrick
w^s was clear enough. "Shoot
me, shoot me here!" shrieked Maria
Lanza, as soldiers confiscated her
satchel of coca leaves. "Thank God
for la cocat'na. Because of cocaine we
can dress and eat well."
One Leopard commander estimated
that 80 percent of the population of
Cliza is involved in the clandestine
cocaine market. Across the country,
an estimated 100,000 peasant famClaaning
up Cllza: A vlllaga that thrivad on eoka
ilies now make their living in the cocaine business. It is not illegal
in Bolivia to grow and sell coca leaf, which workers chew as a
stimulant and a hunger suppressant; in a lean spason it can also
be made into tea. But the government is attempting to control
the flow of coca leaves by requir .ig buyers and sellers to be
Ucensed. The peasants protest that trading in coca is the only
way they can survive in a country where steady employment is
scarce and the minimum salary little more thu SIO a month.
Even as the soldiers drove off, firing their rifles behind them, the
villagers scrambled on the ground, fighting over the bits of coca
leaves that had spilled from the confiscated bags.
Rocky TnO: At midnight the Leopards went on another raid.
In Puca Mayu, another hamlet nearby, a peasant home had been
converted into nfabriqueta, a tiny factory producing cocaine.
Ten men had bera working all evening, taking turns stamping
barefoot in a huge trough filled with coca leaves, kerosene and
other chemicals. They smoked^n7/o,
a mixture of crude coca paste and
chemicals, and listened to music on a
tinny transistor radio. The Leopards
burst in and rounded up the workers,
locking them into the backs of the
jeeps and driving them down the
rocky trail to Coclubamba—and jail.
The small-timers busted by the
Leopards that night will probably
languish in jail for months, but they
will not be sharing their cells with any
of the country's big-time drug kings.
"The jails are full of a bunch of poor
Indians caught with a kilo or two of
coca paste," says one U.S. DEA official
in La Paz. "They can't afford
lawyers, and they'll stay in jail forever."
The few narcotraficantes, or
major drug dealers, who have been
arrested have no such problems.
They take advantage of a justice system
that is riddled with loopholes and
is infinitely vulnerable to bribery.
"They can buy just about anyone they
please," says the DEA official. "The
corruption is horrendous—and it
goes right up to the top."
nally caught up with Ochoa last Nov. IS.
They found him and Gilberto Rodriguez
negotiatingtobuy a51 million, }2,S00-acre
ranch outside Madrid. Both men were arrested;
Spanish authorities are currently reviewing
U.S. extradition requests for them.
A grand jury in Miami has indicted Ochoa
for his alleged role in the Nicaragua case.
Gilberto Rodriguez, meanwhile, was one
of three men—along with Gonzalo Rodriguez
and Botero—who might be called the
soccer-club three. Gilberto Rodriguez is
said to be the part owner, with his brother
Miguel, of CM's America soccer team.
DEA officials believe be was the source of
6,450 pounds of cocaine paste seized in California
in 1976; theyalsosayheused banks in
Miami and Colombia to finance drug smuggling.
Gonzalo Rodriguez, who is known as
"El Mejicano" (the Mexican), owns a large
piece of Bogota's Millonarios soccer team,
as well as a farm with a private landing strip.
NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 25. 1985
Botero is part owner of Medellin's Atletico
Nacional soccer club. In a recent joint DEACustoms-
Intemal Revenue investigation
called Operation Greenback, he and his
brother, Roberto, were allegedly caught
laundering 560 million through Landmark
First National Bank in Pl^ution, Fla.
Bank officials have denied any knowledge of
the laundering. Botero was among the first
trafficken extradited by Betancur's government,
and he is now on trial in Miami
nunder: Until recently, Colombian officials
were afraid to take on the drug overlords.
But then the cocaine smugglers made
a major blunder; they decided to assassinate
Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, the
one member of the Betancur government
who was crusading against them. In April
hired killers machine-gunned Lara to death
on a Bogota street, "l^e drug kings never
claimed responsibility, but they are universally
believed to have financed the hit The
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murder outraged many Colombians who
had seen the smugglers as appealing folk
heroes battling against the country's entrenched
elites. More important, it enraged
Betancur. For two years he had ignored
Colombia'sextradition treaty with the United!
States on the ground that it violated
national sovereignty. But at Lara's graveside,
he vowed to uphold the treaty. He
declared a state of siege and went on television
to proclaim "a war without quarter" on
the cocaine mafia.
The drug lords were forced to retrench.
Four days aAer the assassination, they reportedly
held an emergency summit in
MedelHn. Some headed to Brazil; others,
including Escobar, Ochoa and Rodriguez
Gacha went to the Cesar Park Marriott
Hotel in Panama. There they approached
former Colombian President Alfonso Lopez
Michelsen, who was staying in Panama,
with a peace offer. Lopez Michelsen prom-
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ised to communicate the message to Betancur,
and 10 days later Attorney General
Carlos Jimenez Gomez arrived in Panan^
Jimenez met with Escobar and other
members of the cartel and asked them to put
their offer in writing. In that memorandum,
which was later leaked to the press, the
negotiators claimed to represent 80 percent
of Colombia's coke traffickers. They offered
to give up their smuggling operations, to
help finance the country's debt and to work
to rehabilitate addicts. In exchange, they
asked for an end to the sute of siege, a
revisionof the extradition treaty with Washington
and new measures that would allow
them to repatriate all their assets. Jimenez
took the offer back to Bogota. But as soon as
itbecamepublic, there was an outcry. Betancur
firmly rejected it, saying that "under no
circumstances" would he accept the deal.
HeUcopterK Colombian and U.S. officials
now hope that by keeping the drug kings on
the run, they will force them to make more
Since 1980 the Colombian police
has assigned a crack paramilitary force, the
Special Anti-Narcotics Unit (SANU), to
fill] time for the smugglers. In all,
SANU employs 1,700 top Army and police
recruits. They work in teams across Colombia's
drug-producing inland, setting up
checkpoints, sweeping through the jungle
with jeeps, trucks, on horseback or on foo^
and swooping down on refining plants with
U.S.-suppliedUH-l helicopters.
Public sentiment has also begun to turn
against the smugglers. Lara's assassination
is one reason. Another is growing con«^
over basuco, the dangerous cocaine derivative
the traffickers sell at home. About three
years ago, the drug kings decided to stop
relying on coca supplies from Peru and Bolivia
and to start growing their own coca
leaves on Colombian soil. They quickly discovered
that these leaves weren't of high
enough quality for the U.S. market. So they
started processing them with chemicals and
selling the pasty yellow byproduct on
the domestic market Basuco is cheap—
about S5 a gram—and easy to lace into
cigarettes. And it has turned many Colombian
youths, and growing numbers of young
professionals, into strung-out addictt.
Even if life has become abit harder for the
Colombia mafia, the odds against shutting
them down remain overwhelming. Some
drug-enforcement agents concede that at
most, they can hope to keep the smugglers
offbalance and prevent them from enlarging
their empires. But as long as they can sell
billions of dollars' worth of coke abroad—
and as long as the domestic market for basuco
keeps expanding—they will have the
money and clout they need to fend off the
government's attacks. Colombian officials
have finally started todo battle with thedrug
overlords. But they are in for along, costly—
and probably very bloody—war.
MARK WHITAKERwilhELAlNE SHARON
ia Waihlngtonud RON MOKEAU in BogoU
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Feeding America's Habit
A booming demand frustrates law-enforcement efforts.
AMohave County sherirs deputy was of coke are ^ting In
camping near a deserted Arizona air- recent months, investigators have
strip last November when he spotted the an unusually large amount of c«h flwng
abandoned plane. Inside, he found 1,500 'hcFeder^Rescue
pounds of Colombian cocaine wrapped m cisco—just ^ it did in Miaro y
^^.green^dsilverfoilpackages-for
Narcod^gcnls in California set up a investigatorinKcniC^nty.C^.,whOTa
midnight stakeout on San Francisco Bay. sheriTs deputy watc^ ®
Thev ambushed eight frogmen swimming in take off in the Mojave Desert two weeks ago.
With 400 pounds of cocaine in duffel bags
from a Colombian ship offshore. Refbellny Sm^l, J!
Iowa authorities are taking a close look at becoming the landing zones of choiwfor the
package-delivery services. In one parcel, c^netr^c.';pey'rcfl>^ngmto^^^
they found a stash of cocaine tucked inside a
machinery part bound from Colombia to a
tiny Iowa hamlet Its population—380.
The white powder that feeds America's
habit still comes in largely through south
Florida routes. For the past four years the
Drug Enforcement Administration has
tried to sever that connection—and the traffic
has scattered like "a cue ball hitting a rack
ofbilliardballs,"saysU.S. Attorney Charles
Lewis, who heads the president's drug task
force in the Gulf Coast region. As much as
one-third of cocaine bound for the United
States now comes throu^ Mexico, and the
Texas. Arizona and California borders are
proving as porous to the flow of drugs as they
arc to the flow of illegal immigrants. Still
more cocaine is flown or shipped directly to
New York, the Midwest, the Southeast and
ports on both coasts. And the shifting dunes
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Texas and California and they're landing
wherever they can," says Los Angeles nwcotics
detective Gene Stephens. With a refueling
stop in the Bahamas or other islands,
aircraft from South and Central America
can fly into rural Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Kentucky and the Carolinas, landing
at hundreds of tiny airstrips built with government
industrial-development funds in
the 1960s. "It sort of backfired on us," says
Gordon Miller, regional coordinator for the
organized-crime drug-enforcement task
force in Atlanta. A few flights are even
hazarding remote airstrips in the northern
Rockies, where their cargoes fe^ the lucrative
market among Colorado skiers.
Fa,-h timea new entry point is discovered,
agentt have been quick to make arrese.
Cocaine seizures have doubled annu^ly in
Iowa and increased 29-fold in Texas in the
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lllct'» cu» biH hitting • rack of billiird billt'
last two yean. "We're making seizures at
historic levels," says Lewis, whose task
force numbers 149 people. "But the drug
cartels are also making historic efforts to
continue pumping drugs into our society."
Increasingly, the Colombian dealers who
dominate those cartels are settling down in
U.S. communities—particularly those with
large Latin populations or wealthy residents
where they can live inconspicuously. Marin
County, north of San Frandsco, is a favorite
ofbig'timedrug runners." You can go in and
buy a Mercedes with cash and you're not
going to stand out," says DEA spedal agent
Mike Fiorentino. Central Falls, R.I., with a
large Colombian community, has become
"the cocaine capital of New ^gland," authorities
say. And, laments police detective
Michael >^iiite, "The cocaine has brought
prostitution, robbery and violence."
Another alarming trend in the stateside
cocaine war is the partnershipof the Colombians
and older organized crime families.
Air surveillance: Record seizures, record volume
Italian Mafia chieftains once content to sell
heroin to black and Puerto Rican ghetto
residents "looked around and saw these Colombians
making a ton of money selling
cocaine to everyone and realized they had to
marry up," says Ronald Caffrey of the DEA
in New York. The Mafia, in turn, has provided
the Colombians with larger distribution
networks—and more sophisticated
money-laundering schemes, such as realestate
investments, limited partnerships and
blind trusts in foreign banlu, safe from confiscation.
"The trust buys their home, the
trust owns their BMW and the trust has an
account at Gumps," sighs John Gibbons of
the U.S. attomey'sofficein San Francisco.
Ghit: Changing patterns in cocaine consumption
worry authorities almost as much
as the proliferating supply lines. The world
cocaine glut has brought prices down—a
gram of cocaine now sells for about $50 in
New York City, less than an ounce of marijuana—
and what was once
a recreational drug for affluent
Yuppies is increasingly
prevalent among
middle- and lower-income
wage earners as well. According
to government estimates,
25 miUion Americans
have tried cocaine
and 5 to 10 million use it at
least once a month. But
Dr. Arnold Washton, cofounder
of a national
cocaine hot line (800-COCAINE)
insists those estimates
are low and that another
5,000 Americans try
cocaine for the first time
every day. Although the
typical user is still a 30-
year-old white male earning
$25,000 a year, use is
increasing among women,
rural residents and young
people—in part, experts
say. because of its glamorous
image. "Every day we read about another
celebrity or top athlete involved with
cocaine," says Dr. Larry Kroll, clinical director
of "Lifeline," a new treatment program
in Chicago. "It has a lot of glitter."
The popularity stems largely from the
perception that cocaine provides a
safe, nonaddictive high. But that benign
image is fast eroding. The National
Institute on Drug Abuse last
year declared cocaine to be a "powerfully
addictive" substance—and re-
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1 arrests, seizures, respiratory ailments
S and other serious health problems.
According to the NIDA, the number
of cocaine-related illnesses treated at
some hospital emergency rooms has
more than doubled since 1980, and
deaths involving cocaine have nearly
tripled. Medical experts say the risks
are cumulative and increase when cocaine
is injected or smoked—and rise
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A holding pen: Stiffar penalties
precipitously when mixed with other drugs,
as the deaths of John Belushi and David
Kennedy showed.
As the hazards become more apparent,
more users are seeking help for their addictions.
Washton's hot line, begun in 1983,
receives as many as 1,200 calls a day. In Los
Angeles alone, there are some 70 counseling
centers. The DEA is working with highschool
coaches and professional athletes to
warn young people of cocaine's dangers.
StilL ^ere is a Mortage of detoxification
programs. In Texas, some desperate addicts
who can't afford private treatment centers
have turned to what one clinic director calls
the "pop-a-cop" program: "You slug a cop
and they throw you in jail where you can detox
for a couple of weeks," John Cleveland,
head of Houston's Alternative House told
The Houston Post.
There is no shortage of suggestions on
how the nation's cocaine problem might be
curbed. Law-enforcement
agents are clamoring for
more money and manpower.
At a meeting in
New Orleans last month,
five Southern governors
urged the Reagan administration
to install radar
along the Gulf Coast
that might spot low-flying
planes. But many experts
think the tide won't be
turned until the penalties
are stiffened for those traffickers
who are nabbed. In
California, the maximum
sentence for conspiracy to
distribute cocaine is five
years in prison. "A guy we
convict with 350 pounds
may only do 2Vi years
in prison," says Robert
Schiro of the narcotics division
of the Los Angeles
district attorney's office.
"Ifyoucomeoutamillionaire,
that doesn't seem so bad." Federal
penalties are stiffer—sometimes including
confiscation of assets. But some savvy defendants
are pleading guilty to local charges
to avoid entering the federal system.
UKIK With their hands full trying to
locate cocaine dealers, law-enforcement
agents make little attempt to prosecute or
even arrest cocaine consumers. "If we tried
to target users, we'd be treading water—
there are so many users, we'd accomplish
nothing," says John Ryle, commander of
the Chicago Police Department's narcotics
section. Yet some experts believe that the
only way to win the cocaine battle is to put
pressureon the purchasers. "This war has to
be fought in the minds of citizens of our
country—it's they who spend billions of
dollars consuming these drugs," says U.S.
Attorney Lewis. "They're paying for bribery.
murder and corruption." And that's too
steep a price for any kind of high.
MELINDA BECK WITH BURATU REPORU
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FEDERAL EFFORTS TO CONTROL ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFIC
UPDATED 05/06/85
BY
Harry. Hogan
Government Division
Congressional Research Service
CONGRESSIONAL
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ISSUE DEFINITION
Suppression of illicit traffic is only one aspect of the general Federal
Government effort to prevent the abuse of narcotics and other dangerous
drugs, but in political significance it is undoubtedly paramount. Various
approaches to the problem have been suggested and tried since the first
explicitly anti-opium law was enacted in 1887. Most recently, in enacting
the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-473, Title II), the 9eth
Congress brought to a finish the work of many years on a variety of
significant proposals for the control of crime and illicit drug traffic.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY ANALYSIS
How to prevent the non-medical use of dependence-producing drugs has been
a public policy issue in the United States for well over half a century, but
in the past 20 or so years interest in the question has become especially
marked. During this period, an apparently sharp increase in heroin use in
many inner cities accompanied the widely-reported spread of the abuse of many
other drugs.
On the Federal level, both the Executive Branch and Congress have reacted
to public concern with new initiatives — legislative and administrative
as well as with the expansion of existing programs. Many approaches to the
drug abuse problem have been taken: treatment, education, primary prevention,
and research, in addition to an increase in so-called "law enforcement" or
"supply reduction" efforts.
Budget totals provide a measure of recent growth in the general Federal
commitment to combat drug abuse: spending for all activities for this purpose
rose from $74 million in Fy69 to approximately $1.5 billion in FY84; drug
abuse law enforcement spending went from $37 million to SI.2 billion during
the same period.
In the law enforcement area, the following are among significant issues
that have received attention in recent years and that are addressed by
legislation proposed in the 98th Congress: (1) the appropriate level of
penalties for the more serious trafficking offenses? (2) the use of bail and
other release procedures in the case of accused drug traffickers? (3) ways of
increasing Government seizures of assets involved in or derived from drug
trafficking; (4) problems posed to drug law enforcement by the Exclusionary
Rule? (5) coordination of Federal drug law enforcement efforts, both with
respect to policy formulation and to its implementation? (6) criminal
sentencing in general? (7) ways of securing maximum cooperation from foreign
countries in the control of drug production and trafficking, especially
through the International Narcotics Control program under the Foreign
Assistance Act? and (8) regulatory law changes designed to enhance efforts to
prevent drug diversion.
Proposals for more stringent penalties for drug trafficking raise the
following questions; (1) What are the proper and just penalties for the
offense in question? (2) Even if the offense is seen as justifying a
repressive penalty, would the penalty actually serve the interests of
society? (3) Are heavy penalties an effective crime deterrent? (4)
Regardless of deterrence value, are heavy penalties justified on the grounds
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that they remove a danger to the community for a substantial period of time?
(5) Is it the strict statutory penalty or the certainty of punishment that
acts as a crime deterrent? (6) As long as arrest and conviction rates remain
low, do statutory penalties have much impact? (7) Is it wise to limit
judicial discretion in the sentencing process? (8) Is there a solid basis
for the assumption that without mandatory penalties judges fail to impose
appropriate sentences?
Another major theme of the debate over how to stem drug abuse concerns the
actual structure of the Federal effort. The so-called "law enforcement" side
of that effort has undergone a number of reorganizations in recent years, but
questions continue to be raised. These include: (1) Do the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) and the Customs Bureau still have jurisdictional
difficulties despite Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, which was supposed to
solve this problem? (2) Is there sufficient coordination of Federal law
enforcement efforts in general? (3) Is there sufficient commitment at the
White House level? (4) Should all Federal activities concerned with drug
abuse problems be centered in one agency, as recommended in 1973 by the
National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse? Alternatively, should a
special "drug czar" office be established to formulate policy and to
coordinate activities of all operating drug enforcement agencies? (See
IB83168, "Coordination of Federal Efforts to Control Illicit Drug Traffic";
also Title II, Chapter XIII, of P.L. 98-473.)
A continuing concern of both Congress and the executive branch is how best
to secure the cooperation of other countries in the drug control effort. In
addition to diplomatic maneuvers and the operation of DEA agents overseas,
the United States presently provides direct monetary assistance to a number
of countries for narcotics control purposes. This "International Narcotics
Control Program" was *establ j.shed by a 1971 amendment to the Foreign
Assistance Act; in recent years the program's reauthorization has been
limited to a period of one year at a time. One of the most important of the
efforts initiated has been the poppy eradication operation in Mexico,
involving massive spraying of herbicides during the growing seasons. Until
recently, U.S. officials were highly enthusiastic about the program,
generally crediting it with a substantial decline in the amount of Mexican
heroin coming into the United States. However, there are now signs that
Mexican growers and traffickers have been recapturing a portion of the market
they had lost to Southwest and Southeast Asia (see IB83138, "Asian Drug
Trade; Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy.")
The International Narcotics Control program has been associated with a
number of controversial issues, including those concerned with (1) the level
of influence of Drug Enforcement Administration personnel in shaping the
efforts assisted; (2) direct participation of U.S. law enforcement officials
in foreign drug law enforcement activities; (3) use of U.S.-supplied
equipment and of U.S.-trained personnel for purposes other than drug traffic
control, particularly in support of non-democratic governments, and (4) use
of allegedly harmful herbicides in eradication programs, A related issue is
the general question of the diplomatic "linkage" of U.S. concerns over the
drug problem to all forms of U.S. assistance to, or other accommodation of,
drug source countries.
The 98th Congress saw the culmination of many years of work on a number of
general anti-crime measures as well as on several that are specifically aimed
at the drug problem. The principal enactment was an omnibus crime control
"package," consisting of twenty three titles (or "chapters") dealing with a
broad range of matters pertaining to criminal justice and procedure. Based
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on an amended Administration bill that passed the Senate in February 1984 (S.
1762) , the final version -- which was attached to a continuing appropriations
bill (H.J.Res. 548; P.L. 98-473) — contained many amendments and additions
reflecting positions developed in the House.
In addition to the omnibus legislation, 98th Congress enactments included
a bill designed to deter robbery and theft of dangerous drugs from pharmacies
(P.L. 98-305), a bill to ban methaqualone (P.L. 98-329), and Federal Aviation
Act amendments to deter the use of aircraft for drug trafficking (P.L.
98-499).
98th Congress
P.L. 98-329, H.R. 4201
Transfers methaqualone from Schedule II to Schedule I under the Controlled
Substances Act. Introduced Oct. 24, 1983; referred to Energy and Commerce.
Reported Nov. 10 (H.Rept. 98-534). Passed House Nov. 16. In Senate,
referred to judiciary, Nov. 16, 1983. Reported Apr. 5, 1984 (no written
report). Passed Senate June 15, 1984. Approved June 29, 1984.
P.L. 98-499, S. 1146
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide for (1) the revocation
of airman certificates of persons convicted of a violation of a State or
Federal law relating to controlled substances and (2) additional penalties
for the transportation by aircraft of controlled substances. H.R. 1580
introduced Feb. 22, 1983; referred to Public Works and Transportation.
Reported, amended, June 29, 1984 (H.Rept. 98-883). S. 1146 passed in lieu,
July 24. S. 1146 introduced Apr. 26, 1983; referred to Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. Reported Sept. 15 (S.Rept. 98-228). Passed Senate,
amended, Sept. 27. Referred to House Committee on Public Works and
Transportation, Sept. 28, 1983. Passed House, amended, July 24, 1984;
conference requested by House. Conference agreed to by Senate, Sept. 6,
1984. Senate agreed to conference report Oct. 2; -House agreed Oct. 4.
Approved Oct. 19, 1984.
o H.R. 4028 (Hughes, Sawyer, Smith of Fla., and Oilman) [Related bills:
H.R. 3326, S. 1787)
o Establishes an Office of Drug Enforcement Coordination in the Executive
Office of the President. Vice-President, may be appointed Director;
otherwise, appointment must be approved by the senate. Authorizes the
director to establish policy and priorities for all Federal drug law
enforcement functions and to coordinate and oversee such functions. Among
specific powers provided is review of all annual budgets of departments and
agencies engaged in such functions. H.R. 3664 introduced July 26, 1983;
referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and on Energy and
Commerce. H.R. 4028, a clean bill in lieu of H.R. 3664, introduced Sept. 29,
1983; referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and on Energy and
Commerce. Reported (amended) sept. 11, 1984. Passed House Sept. 11, 1984.
o H.R. 4901 (Hughes, Sawyer, Fish et al.) (Related bills: Titles IV and
VII of S. 829/H.R. 2151, Title II of S. 830, S. 948, Titles III and V of • S.
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1762)
o Amends the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import
and Export Act, and the Tariff Act of 1930 to improve forfeiture provisions
and to strengthen penalties (fines) for controlled substance offenses, and
for other purposes. H.R. 3299 introduced June 14, 1983; referred jointly to
the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means.
Clean bill, H.R. 4901, introduced Feb. 22, 1984; referred to same 3
committees. Reported, amended, by Judiciary, June 19 (H.Rept. 98-045, Pt.
I). Reported, amended, by Ways and Means, Aug. 10 (H.Rept. 98-845, Pt. II).
Passed House Sept. 11, 1984. Included also in H.R. 5690, which passed House
Oct. 3, 1984. Similar provisions included in H.J.Res. 648 as signed into law
Oct. 12, 1984 (P.L. 98-473).
H.R. 5290 (Uaxman et al.)
Establishes a temporary program under which heroin would be made
available, through qualified pharmacists, for the relief of pain from cancer.
H.R. 4762 introduced Feb. 6, 1984; referred to Energy and Commerce. Clean
bill, H.R. 5290, approved for full committee, March 21. Reported April 12
(H.Rept. 98-689). Failed of passage Sept. 19, 1984.
o H.R. 5656 (Hughes, Sawyer)
o Dangerous Drug Diversion Control Act of 1984. [see digest of Title vii.
Part B, of S. 1762/H.R. 2151, below]. Introduced Jan. 31, 1984; referred
jointly to Committees on the Judiciary and on Energy and Commerce. H.R.
5656, clean bill in lieu of H.R. 4698, introduced May 15; referred jointly to
Judiciary and to Energy and Commerce. Reported by Judiciary June 12 (H.Rept.
98-835, Pt. I). Passed House Sept. 18. Also included as part of H.J.Res.
648,_ which passed House Sept. 25. Contained in final version of H.J.Res.
648, as signed into law Oct. 12, 1984 (P.L. 98-473).
H.R. 5990 (Rangel, Oilman et al.)/S. 2866 (Moynihan, D'Amato et al.)
State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance Act of 1984. Establishes a
program of formula grants to States for the purpose of increasing the level
of State and local enforcement of State laws relating to production, illegal
possession, and transfer of controlled substances — to be administered by
the Attorney General. Establishes a program of formula grants to States for
the purpose of increasing the ability of States to provide drug abuse
prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation «•- to be administered by the
Secretary of Health and Human Services. Authorizes total appropriations of
$750 million annually in fiscal years 1986 through 1990, of which $625
million would be allocated to the law enforcement program. Introduced June
29, 1984; referred jointly to Judiciary and to Energy and Commerce. s. 2866
introduced July 25, 1984; referred to Judiciary.
0 H.R. 6031 (Related bill.: Title XII Of S. 1762)
o Money Laundering Penalties Act of 1984. Amends the Currency and Foreign
Transaction Reporting Act to make it more difficult to transfer or transport
out of the country currency derived from drug trafficking. Introduced July
26, 1984; referred jointly to Judiciary and to Banking, Finance and Urban
Affairs. Reported, amended, by Judiciary Aug. 17 (H.Rept. 98-984). Passed
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House Sept. 10, 1984.
H.Res. 49 (Rangei and Gilman)
Provides for the continuance of the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control. Introduced Jan. 31, 1983; referred to Rules. Reported March 7
(H.Rept. 98-4). Passed March 8, 1983.
o S. 215 (Thurmond, Biden et al.)/H.R. 5865 (Sawyer) (Related bills: H.R.
1098, Title II of S. 117, S. 406, Title I of S. 1762 and H.R. 2151, Title II
of S. 830, H.R. 3005)
o Amends the Bail Reform Act of 1966 to permit consideration of danger to
the community in setting pretrial release conditions, to expand the list of
statutory release conditions, to establish a more appropriate basis for
deciding on postconviction release, and for other purposes. introduced Jan.
27, 1983; referred to Judiciary. Reported May 25, 1983 (S.Rept. 98-147).
Passed Senate amended, Feb. 3, 1984. In House, referred to Judiciary, Feb.
7. Clean bill H.R. 5865 reported to full committee in lieu of H.R. 3005 June
14, 1984. H.R. 5865 reported Oct. 1, 1984 (H.Rept. 98-1121).
o P.L. 98-305, S. 422 (Related bills: S. 1762, Title X, Part N; H.R.
2944)
o Makes it a Federal offense to rob a pharmacy of a drug controlled under
the Federal Controlled Substances Act. s. 422 introduced Feb. 3, 1983;
referred to Judiciary. Reported, amended, Feb. 8, 1984 (S.Rept. 98-353).
Passed Senate, amended, Feb. 23. In House, referred to Judiciary, Feb. 27.
House Judiciary discharged and bill called up by unanimous consent. May 8.
Passed House, amended. Hay 8. Senate agreed to House amendment. Hay 17.
Approved May 31, 1984 (P.L. 98-305). H.R. 5222 introduced Mar. 22, 1984;
referred to Judiciary. Reported March 30 (H.Rept. 98-644). Passed House
April 2. In Senate, referred to Judiciary Apr. 2, 1984.
S. 503 (Humphrey et al.)
Makes it unlawful to manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to
distribute, a drug that is an imitation of a controlled substance or a drug
that purports to act like a controlled substance- Introduced Feb. 16, 1983;
referred jointly to Judiciary and to Labor and Human Resources.
S. 1143 (Hawkins) (Related bill: S. 813)
Conditions U.S. assistance to any country that is a major producer of
opium, coca, or marihuana on reductions by that country in the levels of such
production. Introduced Apr. 26, 1983; referred to Foreign Relations. [More
detailed version included in the Department of State Authorization Act, FY84
and FY85,H.R. 2915, P.L. 98-164 (Nov. 22, 1983)]
o P.L. 98-473, H.J.Res. 648
o Title II: Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. The following are
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the more significant chapters or provisions of the title in relation to
dangerous drug control:
o Chapter I. Bail. Amends the Bail Reform Act of 1966 to (1) permit
danger to the community to be considered in determining whether to release an
accused individual pending trial, or, if release is appropriate, in
determining conditions for release and (2) increase penalties for jumping
bail (and for other related purposes).
o Chapter II. Sentencing Reform. Creates a determinate sentencing
system, with no parole and limited good time credits. Establishes a
sentencing commission, to be responsible for formulating guidelines to be
used by the courts in determining appropriate sentences.
o Chapter III. Forfeiture. Amends both 18 U.S.C. 1963 (a provision of
the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and the Controlled
Substances Act to (1) provide for the criminal forfeiture of the proceeds of
racketeering or drug trafficking activity, (2) establish the sanction of
criminal forfeiture for all felony drug offenses, (3) in general facilitate
forfeitures in drug-related and racketeering cases, and (4) raise the ceiling
on the value of property subject to administrative forfeiture (uncontested)
-- from $10,000 to $100,000. (See also sec. 213 of P.L. 98-573, Trade and
Tariff Act of 1984.)
° Chapter v. Drug Enforcement Amendments. Part A. Controlled substance
penalties. Amends both the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act to (1) increase the maximum prison penalties
for trafficking in large (specified) amounts of an opiate, cocaine,
phencyclidine (PCP), or LSD; (2) increase the fine level for trafficking in
any controlled substance; (3) increase prison penalties and fines for
trafficking in any amount of most non-narcotic substances in Schedules I or
II (includes LSD and PCP); (4) increase penalties for trafficking in
marihuana in amounts ranging from 50 to 454 kilograms; and (5) permit State
and foreign felony drug convictions to be considered under the enhanced
sentencing provisions for repeat drug offenders. Part B. Diversion control
amendments. Among other things, (1) provides for new emergency authority to
bring an uncontrolled substance under temporary control; (2) increases
regulatory authority of the Drug Enforcement Admini-stration over
practitioners (e.g., expands authority to revoke or suspend registrations);
(3) simplifies practitioner registration requirements (allowing a 3-year
life-span if determined appropriate); (4) expands reporting requirements for
drug distributors; (5) clarifies the control of isomers; and (6) authorizes a
program of grants to State and local governments to assist them in the
suppression of diversion of controlled substances from legitimate medical,
scientific, and commercial channels.
° Ci^apter IX. Foreign Currency Transaction Amendments• Amends the
Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act to make it more difficult to
transfer or transport out of the country currency derived from drug
trafficking.
o Chapter X. Miscellaneous Violent Crime Amendments. Part A. Extends
existing Federal jurisdiction over contract killings and violence related to
racketeering where travel across State lines is involved.
o Part B. Creates sanctions for the offense of soliciting the commission
of a crime of violence.
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o Chapter XI. Serious yonviolent Offenses. Part C. Makes it an offense
to warn anyone that his property is about to be searched by Federal'
authorities.
o Chapter XII. Procedural Amendments. Part A. Prosecution of certain
juveniles as adults. Amends the juvenile delinquency chapter of title 18,
U.S. Code, to lower the age at which certain violent or otherwise illegal
acts would be considered crimes if committed by an adult, and generally
modifies provisions that allow for special handling of juveniles, to
encourage adult treatment of offenders charged with crimes of violence or
drug trafficking offenses.
o Part F. Witness protection. Explicitly authorizes witness relocation
and protection and provides a procedure for handling civil claims filed
against protected witnesses.
o Chapter XIII. National Narcotics Act. See digest of S. 1787, below.
o Chapter XXIII. Authorizes judges to fine a drug or racketeering
offender up to twice the gross profits from his enterprise in lieu of the
fine specified for the offense in question. Authorizes the use of the
proceeds of sale of forfeited property to be used for maintenance and
rehabilitation of seized property and for the purchase of evidence.
o BILL AS PASSED OMITS EXCLUSIONARY RULE AND EXTRADITION PROVISIONS OF
ORIGINAL BILL (S. 829/H.R. 2151) AS WELL AS OTHERS THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN
THE ABOVE DIGEST. TITLES AND PARTS WERE RENUMBERED ACCORDINGLY.
o The original Senate bill, S. 829, introduced Mar. 16, 1983; referred to
Judiciary. S. 1762 (clean bill in lieu of S. 829) reported Aug. 4 (no
written report). Written report filed by Judiciary, Sept. 14, 1983 (S.Rept.
98-225.) Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations until Sept. 20,
1983, for the purpose only of considering certain aspects of part M of Title
X (relating to extradition). Reported to Senate by Senator Percy with
amendments Sept. 20 (no written report). Committee on Foreign Relations
filed written report Sept. 26, 1983 (Rept. 98-241). Passed Senate, amended,
Feb. 2, 1984. Contents of Senate-passed bill (introduced in House June 28,
1984, as H.R. 5963) included in H.J.Res. 648, which passed House Sept. 25.
Amended version included in H.J.Res. 648 as passed by Senate Oct. 4.
Conference report on H.J.Res. 548 agreed to by House and Senate Oct. 10.
H.J.Res. 648 signed into law Oct. 12, 1984 (P.L. 98-473). H.R. 2151
introduced Mar. 16, 1983; referred to Judiciary.
o S. 1764 (Thurmond, Laxalt et al.) (Related bills: S. 101, Title III of
S. 829/H.R. 2151)
o Narrows the application, in Federal criminal proceedings, of the Fourth
Amendment "exclusionary rule" requiring suppression of improperly seized
evidence, by allowing admission where the officers making the seizure were
proceeding upon a "reasonable, good faith belief" that they were acting
properly. Introduced Aug. 4, 1983; referred to Judiciary. Reported without
amendment Aug. 4. Written report filed Jan. 26, 1984 (S.Rept. 98-350).
Passed Senate Feb. 7. In House, referred to Committee on the Judiciary, Feb.
8, 1984.
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o S. 1787 (Bi«36n et al.)
o National Narcotics Act of 1983. Creates a "National Drug Enforcement
Policy Boara," to be chaired by the Attorney General and to be comprised of
various cabinet-level officials and others as may be appointed by the
President. Gives Board specific authorities aimed at facilitating
coordination of U.S. operations and policy on drug law enforcement
including the authority to review, evaluate, and develop budgetary
priorities. Prohibits interference by Board with "routine law enforcement or
intelligence decisions of any agency." Introduced Aug. 4, 1983; referred to
Judiciary. Reported, without amendment, August 4. Written report filed Oct.
25 (S.Rept. 98-278). (Contents of bill added by floor amendment on Oct. 26,
1983, to H.R. 3959, a supplemental appropriation bill that passed the Senate
Oct. 27, 1983. Amendment dropped in conference.) Passed Senate, amended,
Feb. 7, 1984. In House, referred jointly to Committees on the Judiciary and
Energy and commerce, Feb. 9, 1984. Included in H.J.Res. 648 as passed by
both House and Senate. Conference report on H.J.Res. 648 approved by House
and Senate Oct. 10, 1984. H.J.Res. 648 signed into law Oct. 12, 1984 (P.L.
98-473).
o S. 2582 (Percy)/H.R. 5119 (Fascell)
o International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1984. For the
international narcotics control program under the Foreign Assistance Act,
authorizes $50.2 million for FY85. S. 2346 introduced Feb. 27, 1984;
referred to Foreign Relations. Provisions incorporated into S. 2582,
reported Apr. 18 (S.Rept. 98-400). H.R. 5119 introduced March 14; referred
to Foreign Affairs. Reported March 21 (H.Rept. 98-628). Committee amendment
in the nature of a substitute considered as an original bill for the purpose
of amendment. May 10. Passed House, amended. Hay 10. In Senate, placed on
Senate Legislative Calendar, May 16.
o S. 2606 (Thurmond and Biden)/H.R. 5468 (Rodino) (Related bill: H.R.
5528)
o Department of Justice Authorization Act, FY85. For the Drug Enforcement
Administration, authorizes appropriations of $334.7 million for FY85.
Provides general authorities for DEA. Authorizes the setting aside of funds,
derived from forfeitures, to pay awards for information leading to such
forfeitures. Provides certain specific authorities to the DEA in respect to
the conduct of undercover operations. S. 2606 introduced Apr. 30, 1984;
referred to Judiciary. Ordered to be reporj:ed with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute. May 10. Reported May 25 (S.Rept. 98-498). .Passed
Senate, amended, June 15, 1984. H.R. 5468 introduced Apr. 12, 1984; referred
to Judiciary. Reported, amended. May 15 (H.Rept. 98-759).
LEGISLATION
99th Congress
[Does not include appropriation and routine appropriation authorization
bills unless there are provisions of interest relating to other than funding
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levels.]
H.R. 440 (San B. Hall, Jr.)
Amends the Federal Tort Claims Act to make the United States liable for
the constitutional torts of Federal employees arising out of the discharge of
official duties. Provides a remedy for constitutional torts committed by
Federal employees in the course of carrying out official duties; makes such
remedy exclusive of any other civil action based on the same conduct.
Introduced Jan. 3, 1985; referred to Judiciary. (Related bills: S. 492, H.R.
570)
H.R. 526 (Rangel et al.)/S. 15 (Moynihan et al.)
State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance Act of 1984. Establishes a
program of formula grants to States for the purpose of increasing the level
of State and local enforcement of State laws relating to production, illegal
possession, and transfer of concrolled substances -- to be administered by
the Attorney General. Establishes a program of formula grants to States for
the purpose of increasing the ability of States to provide drug abuse
prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation -- to be administered by the
Secretary of Health and Human services. Authorizes total appropriations of
$750 million annually in fiscal years 1986 through 1990, of which $625
million would be allocated to the law enforcement program. H.R. 526
introduced Jan. 7, 1985; referred jointly to Judiciary and to Energy and
Commerce. S. 15 introduced Jan. 3, 1985; referred to Labor and Human
Resources.
H.R. 1307 (English)/S. 531 (DeConcini et al.)
Readiness Enhancement of Air Force Reserve Special Operations Act of
1985. Authorizes establishment of a Special Operations Wing of the Air Force
Reserve, principally for support of the civilian drug interdiction mission
during peacetime. Makes permanent the Defense Department's Task Force on
Drug Law Enforcement. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary for these
purposes and requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on the
manner in which appropriated funds are to be spent. H.R. 1307 introduced
Feb. 27, 1985; referred to Armed Services. S. 531 introduced Feb. 27, 1985;
referred to Armed Services.
H.R. 1367 (McCullom)
Money Laundering Act of 1985. Makes it a Federal criminal offense to
assist in the "laundering" of money derived from unlawful activity or to do
so in the furtherance of unlawful activity; authorizes imprisonment of up to
5 years and/or a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the value of the amount
involved in the laundering, for first offenders, and double for second
offenders. Amends the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act to
broaden the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain information
for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Act and to permit him to make
available to other Federal agencies information filed in certain reports
required by the Act. Authorizes wiretaps to investigate offenses involving
prohibited transactions in monetary instruments or failure to comply with
recordkeeping and reporting requirements in connection with such
transactions. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act to permit financial
institutions to disclose to a Government authority whatever information they
deem relevent to a possible violation of a statute or regulation, without
having to wait for the opening of a formal investigation and compliance with
the procedures otherwise required under the Act. Introduced Feb. 28, 1985;
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referred jointly to Judiciary and to Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
(Related bills: S. 572, H.R. 1474. Note that S. 572, introduced by Senator
D'Amato and others, is identical to Title I of H.R. 1367.)
H.R. 1597 (waxman et al.)/S. 70 (Inouye)
Compassional Pain Relief Act. Establishes a temporary program under which
the narcotic drug heroin would be made available, through approved
pharmacies, for the relief of pain from cancer. H.R. 1597 introduced Mar.
19, 1985; referred to Energy and Commerce. S. 70 introduced Jan. 3, 1985;
referred to Labor and Human Resources.
H.R. 1768 (Fascell et al.)/S. 766 (Chiles et al.)
International Narcotics control Act of 1985. Requires the Secretary of
State to conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing a regional
organization in Latin America for combatting narcotics production and
trafficking. Directs the Secretary of State to issue a travel advisory
warning U.S. citizens of the dangers of traveling in Mexico — to remain in
effect until those responsible for the recent murder of a u.s.narcotics agent
have been brought to trial and a verdict has been rendered. Requires a
presidential report on the possible further utilization of the Armed Forces
in the suppression of narcotics traffic. Requires annual reports on the
involvement of communist countries in illicit drug traffic. Allows direct
participation in arrests and interrogation, by U.S. law enforcement
officials, in cases where the U.S. and the country involved so agree. Calls
for negotiations with Brazil to conclude a narcotics control agreement,
featuring a reduction in coca production. Requires assistance to Bolivia -to
be conditioned on the taking of specified anti-drug measures by the Bolivian
Government. Requires review of the Agency for international Development
project for the upper Huallaga Valley, in Peru, in terms of its effectiveness
in reducing coca leaf production and marketing. Conditions assistance to
Jamaica on the taking of certain anti-drug measures by the Jamaican
Government- Conditions U.S. contributions to the U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse
Control on the inclusion of law enforcement cooperation plans in the agency's
crop substitution projects. Prohibits the use of foreign assistance funds
for reimbursement of persons whose illicit drug crops are eradicated.
Requires 'Cost-sharing in international narcotics control programs funded
under the Foreign Assistance Act. Specifies certain measures to be taken to
ensure that foreign narcotics traffickers are denied visas to enter the U.S.
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to require mandatory lifetime
imprisonment for certain convicted drug offenders ("dangerous special
offenders"). Amends the Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act to
increase penalties for reporting violations. H.R. 1768 introduced Mar. 27,
1985; referred jointly to Foreign Affairs and Judiciary. S. 766 introduced
Mar. 28, 1985; referred to Foreign Relations^
S. 237 (Thurmond et al.)
Narrows the application, in Federal criminal proceedings, of the Fourth
Amendment "exclusionary rule" requiring suppression of improperly seized
evidence, by allowing admission where the officers making the seizure were
proceeding upon a "reasonable, good faith belief" that they were acting
properly. Introduced Jan. 22, 1985; referred to Judiciary. (Related bills
S. 29)
S. 515 (D'Amato et al.)
Directs the President to conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. policy
toward Bulgaria, specifically with respect to that country's involvement in
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international drug trafficlcing, gun-running, and terrorism. Introduced Feb.
26, 1985; referred to Foreign Relations.
S. 630 (Hawkins)/H.R. 2013 (Rangel and Oilman)
Provides for the payment of rewards to individuals providing information
leading to the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of killing or
kidnapping a Federal drug law enforcement agent. Introduced Kar. 7, 1985;
referred to Judiciary. Called up for committee discharge in Senate, March
20. Passed Senate, March 20. Referred to House Judiciary Committee, March
25. H.R. 2013 introduced Apr. 4, 1985; referred to Judiciary.
S. 708 (DeConcini, Chiles, Hawkins, and Denton)
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act to permit certain law enforcement
actions, presently prohibited by the "Mansfield Amendment", by U.S. agents
overseas. Introduced Mar. 20, 1985; referred to Foreign Relations- (Related
bills: H-R. 962, sec. 6 of H.R. 1768)
S. 713 (Wilson)
Prohibits the interstate mail order and catalog sale, and shipment, of
specified paraphernalia associated with the non-therapeutic use of drugs.
Introduced Mar. 20, 1985; referred to Judiciary.
S. 746 (Chiles)
Requires the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to provide a
comprehensive assessment of the "designer drug" problem and make
recommendations to Congress for necessary legislation. Introduced Mar. 26,
1995; referred to Judiciary.
S. 772 (D'Amato and Hawkins)
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare a report on
the health effects of cocaine use. introduced Mar. 28, 1985; referred to
Labor and Human Resources.
S. 790 (Hawkins et al.)
Provides for the termination of all U.S. economic and military assistance
for Bolivia unless the Bolivian Government eradicates 10% of the country's
coca production. Introduced Mar. 28, 1985; referred to Foreign Relations.
S. 850 (Thurmond and Grassley)
Creates a Federal criminal offense for operating or directing the
operation of a common carrier while intoxicated or under the influence of
drugs. Introduced Apr. 3, 1985; referred to Judiciary.
HEARINGS
U.S. Congress. House. committee on Foreign Affairs. Task Force on
International Narcotics Control. U.S. response to Cuban government
involvement in narcotics trafficking and review of
worldwide illicit narcotics situation. Hearings...
98th Congress, 2d session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print.
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Off., 1984. 316 p.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. subcommittee
on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture. Review
of the Administration's Drug Interdiction Efforts.
Hearings... 98th Congress, 1st session. Washington, U.S.
Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 589 p.
U.S. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and
Control.
Bail reform and narcotics cases. Hearing, 97th Congress, 1st
session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1981. 117 p.
Cocaine: a major drug issue of the seventies.
Hearings, 96th congress, 1st session. Washington,
U.S. Govt. Print. Off-, 1980. 142 p.
DEA/FBl reorganization. Hearing, 97th Congress, 2d session.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1982. 37 p.
Federal drug strategy-1981• Hearing, 97th congress, 1st
session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1982. 54 p.
----- Financial investigation of drug
trafficking. Hearing, 97th Congress,
1st session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1981. 150 p.
Sentencing practices and alternatives in narcotics cases. Hearing,
97th Congress, 1st session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1981. 108 p.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations.
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Illegal narcotics profits. Hearings, 96th congress, 1st
session. December 1979. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1980. 507 p.
Crime and secrecy: the use of offshore banks
and companies. Hearings... 98th Congress, 1st
session. Washington, U;S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1983. 442 p.
International narcotics trafficking. Hearings... 97th congress,
1st session. November 1981. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1981. 630 p.
U.S. Congress. senate. Committee on the Judiciary.
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. Forfeiture of narcotics
proceeds. Hearings, 96th congress, 2d session. Washington,
U.S. Govt, Print. Off., 1981. 165 p.
—--- Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism. The Cuban Government's
involvement in facilitating international drug traffic. Joint
hearing before the Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Western
Hemisphere Affairs... and the Senate Drug Enforcement Caucus,
98th Congress, 1st session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1983. 687 p.
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REPORTS AND CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations.
[Dis]approving Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973 (Drug
Enforcement Administration); report to accompany H.Res. 382.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off,, 1973. 30 p, (93d Congress,
1st session. House. Report no. 93-228)
• Military assistance to civilian narcotics law enforcement:
an interim report. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1982. 23 p. (97th Congress, 2d session. House. Report
no. 97-921)
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
Act of 1970; report to accompany H.R. 18583. Washington,
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970. (91st Congress, 2d session.
House. Report no. 91-1444) 2 parts.
House. Committee on the Judiciary. Criminal Code Revision Act of
1980. Report to accompany H.R. 6915. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print. Off., 1980. 758 p. (96th Congress, 2d session. House.
Report no. 96-1396)
U.S. Congress. House. Select committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control. Investigation of narcotics trafficking and
money laundering in Chicago, Washington, U.S. Govt. Print.
Off., February 1978. 43 p.
At head of title: 95th Congress, 1st session. Committee
print.
"Serial no. SCNAC-95-1-16"
---— Cultivation and eradication of illicit domestic
marihuana. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1984. 87 p.
At head of title: 98th Congress, 1st session.
Committee print.
"Serial no. SCNAC 98-1-9"
----- Efficacy of the Federal drug abuse control strategy:
State and local perspectives. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print. Off., 1984. 41 p.
At head of title: 98th Congress1st session.
Committee print.
"Serial no. SCNAC-98-1-10"
— International narcotics control study missions to
Latin America and Jamaica... Hawaii, Hong Kong, Thailand,
Burma, Pakistan, Turkey, and Italy... Washington, U.S.
Govt. Print. Off., 1984. 217 p.
At head of title: 98th Congress, 1st session.
Committee print.
"Serial no. SCNAC 98-1-12"
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations.
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Crime and
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secrecy: the use of offshore hanks and companies.
Staff study. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983.
253 p.
At head of title: 98th Congress, 1st session.
Committee print.
----- Illegal narcotics profits. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print
Off., 1980 144 p. (96th Congress, 2d session. Senate
Report no. 96-887)
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations.
Suhcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International
Organizations. Reorganization Plan No. 2, establishing a
Drug Enforcement Administration in the Department of Justice.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973. 58 p. (93d Congress,
1st session. senate. Report no. 93-469)
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Controlled
Dangerous Substances Act of 1969; report to accompany s. 3246.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969. 165 p. (91st Congress,
1st session. Senate. Report no. 91-613)
----- Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1983; report on
S. 1762. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983.
797 p. (98th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Report
no. 98-225)
Criminal code Reform Act of 1981; report to accompany S. 1630.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1982. 1569 p.
(97th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Report no. 97-307)
----- National Narcotics Act of 1983; report to accompany S. 1787.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 63 p. (9eth Congress,
1st session. Senate Report no. 98-278)
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
10/12/84 -- President signed H.J.Res. 648 into law (P.L. 98-473).
10/10/84 -- House and Senate agreed to a conference report
on H.J.Res. 648, reflecting a number of compromises
on the crime control title and including a number
of additional House-passed proposals.
10/04/84 — Senate passed H.J.Res. 648 wi^h an amended version
of the crime control title included by the House.
10/03/84 — House passed H.R. 5690, adding to it a crime
control package alternative to the one supported
by the Administration.
09/25/84 — House passed H.J.Res. 648, for FY85 continuing
appropriations, and attached the contents of the
Senate-passed crime bill, s. 1762.
09/11/84 — House passed H.R. 4901, to broaden possibilities of
forfeiture of drug trafficker assets and to raise fines for
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drug trafficking offenses, and also H.R. 4028, an amended
"drug czar" bill.
02/07/84 — Senate passed an amended version of the "drug czar"
bill (S. 1787) after arriving at a compromise acceptable
to tne Administration. Also passed was S. 1764, to limit
the application of the Exclusionary Rule.
02/02/84 — Senate passed (91-1) S. 1762, the Comprehensive Crime Control
Act of 1984.
08/04/83 -- An altered version of the Administration omnibus crime
control bill was reported by the Senate Judiciary committee
(S. 1752). The clean bill omits some of the more
controversial titles of the original proposal, such as those
dealing with the Exclusionary rule and Habeas corpus.
Separate
bills concerning the ommitted matter, as well as one that
would establish a "drug czar" office, were also reported.
The White House announced the creation of a new drug
interdiction group headed by Vice-President George
Bush. To be known as the National Narcotics Border
Interdiction System (NNBIS), it will coordinate
the work of Federal agencies with responsibilities
for interdiction of sea-borne, air-borne and
across-border, importation of narcotics and other
dangerous drugs -- principally the customs service, the
Coast Guard, and the armed services.
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The Administration's omnibus crime control bill was
introduced in both senate and House (S. 829/H.R. 2151).
An alternative bill was introduced by a group of
Senate Democrats, led by members of the Judiciary
Committee (S. 830).
10/14/82 -- President Reagan announced a major new drive against
illicit drug trafficking. The program involves
creation of 12 regional task forces and will reportedly
require the hiring of 1,200 new investigators and
prosecutors.
09/03/82 -- The President approved the Tax Equity and Fiscal
Responsibility Act, which contains provisions designed
to remove impediments to Internal Revenue Service
cooperation with other Federal law enforcement agencies.
The changes are considered to be of special significance
in relation to Federal efforts to curb illicit drug
traffic.
01/28/82 -- President Reagan announced the establishment of a
special task force to combat illicit drug traffic in
South Florida. Composed of officials from a number
of Federal agencies, to work with State and
local authorities, the task force was placed under
the direction of Vice President Bush.
03/23/83 —
03/16/83 —
01/21/82 -- The Attorney General announced that the FBI had been
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given concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) over the investigation of violations of
Federal dangerous drug laws. The DEA Administrator will
report to the Attorney General through the FBI Director.
12/01/81 — The President signed P.L. 97-86, which contains a provision
authorizing certain kinds of cooperation hy the Armed Services
with civilian law enforcement authorities for specific
purposes, including drug law enforcement.
08/19/81 — The final report of the Attorney General's Task Force
on Violent Crime was released. The report
emphasizes the seriousness of illicit drug traffic and
the importance of a clear and consistent enforcement
policy. Recommendations included support of the use
of herbicides for drug crop eradication, support for
Che use of military resources for drug interdiction,
and calls for changes in law and practice with respect
to bail, sentencing, and exclusion of evidence.
07/29/76 — House voted to establish the Select Committee on
Narcotics Abuse and Control, charged with conducting
a general investigation of Federal drug abuse
control efforts and with making recommendations for
appropriate action to the standing committees with
relevant jurisdiction.
07/01/73 -- The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and several
other agencies were merged into the Drug Enforcement
Administration, by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973.
The new agency absorbed a number of Customs Bureau
officials.
02/07/72 — President signed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1971
(P.L. 92-226), which contained a provision establishing
a program of assistance designed to encouriage
international narcotics control.
10/27/70 -- President signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
and Control Act of 1970, an omnibus bill containing
the Controlled Substances Act, which consolidated and
revised all Federal
laws for the control of narcotics and
other dangerous drugs.
04/08/68 — The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (Treasury Department)
and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (HEW) were merged
into a new agency in the Justice Department, the
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
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SENATE REPUBLICAN BILL
PART I
DRUGS IN THE WORKPLACE
• The Drug Free Federal Workplace Act:
* Makes clear there is nothing in federal law to bar agencies
from disciplinary action against Federal employees who use
illegal drugs.
* Prevents drug abusers from claiming rights and protections
of handicapped pereons solely because of their drug use.
* Instructs 0PM to educate Federal employees about drug
dangers and availability of treatment programs.
SCHOOLS
• The Drug-Free Schools Act aims to create a drug-free learning
environment in the nation's schools through a new program in
the Department of Education, funded at $100 million in FY
1987:
* Schools can require as condition for admission and retention
that students not use illegal drugs.
* Schools can conduct drug testing and take disciplinary action
against drug abusers.
* No funds under this program to States which prohibit drug
testing in schools.
• Enhanced fines and jail terms for adults who act with minors to
violate Controlled Substances Act.
• Expands current law against sale of drugs near schools to include
manufacture of controlled substance within that area and to
include colleges, universities, etc.
II.R. 5484
DRUGS INTHEWORKPLACE
• Does not address drug abuse in Federal workforce.
• Requires study of drug abuse in the workplace.
• Requires Office of Personnel Management to provide drug and
alcohol prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services to
federal workers and their families.
• Requires 0PM to inform federal workers of health hazards of
drug abuse.
• 3-ycar demonstration project on including drug abuse treatment
in Federal employees' health benefits.
SCHOOLS
• $1.05 Billion over 3 years for new categorical program in
Department of Education for drug education programs:
* $350 million annually for 3 years.
* Requires 25% Slate matching funds after first year.
* Requires detailed State plan witli application.
• Bill is silent on drug testing and disciplinary actions against drug
abusers.
• Mandatory life term without parole (and up to $3 million fine)
for second conviction of person over 21 who:
* Sells or manufactures drugs within 1,000 feet of school
(including colleges, etc.) or
* Sells drugs to a minor.
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT THROUGH THE STATES
• Tiic Substance Abuse Services Amendments:
* Extends current ADAMHA (Alcohol. Drug Abuse. Mental
Health Administration) block grant, through FY 1991.
* Raises authorization for FY 1987 to $600.
* Directs $100 million of that amount for state drug abuse
treatment centers now running at full capacity.
* Reserves $40 million of that amount for treatment of high
risk youth.
* Removes most remaining strings from the block grant, to
give slates more leeway in using resources in manner best
suited to current needs.
* Secretary of HHS may withhold a State's block grant if the
State decriminalizes possession or distribution of harmful
drugs.
* Reauthorizes National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) at
$129 million for FY 1987.
* Reauthorizes National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA) at $69 million for FY 1987.
* Requires Secretary of HHS to prepare a National Plan to
Combat Drug Abuse, including a model state program.
* Sets up Alcohol and Drug Abuse Clearinghouse.
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
• Adds $280 million to present ADAMHA authorization for new
Substance Abuse Block Grant
• Earmarks one third of funds for ages 5-24 for prevention and
education programs.
• Adds $30 million for new Agency on Substance Abuse
Prevention.
• Retains current strings on the block grants.
• AIDS risk education campaign.
INTERDICTION
• Repeals Mansfield Amendment, which prohibits presence of
U.S. drug agents during foreign arrests.
• Narcotic Traffickers Deportation Act simplifies standards for
deporting or excluding aliens in the drug traffic.
• Customs Enforcement Act:
* Provides severe penalties for illegal transport of drugs.
* Protects innocent aircraft owners and operators from those
penalties.
* Allows States to seize fraudulently registered planes.
* (Drug paraphrenalia are dealt with in Part 111 of Senate
Bill.)
• Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution fmprovcmcnts Act
codifies circumstances under which Coast Guard can board
vessels to enforce U.S. law.
INTERDICTION
• Modifies Mansfield Amendment, to allow U.S. agcnLs to be
present in overseas dmg busts, but only with advance approval
from State Department.
• Same provisions as Senate regarding aliens in the drug traffic.
• Customs:
* Budget increased by $237 million for FY 1987.
* Emphasis upon improving air interdiction program.
* Prohibit import of drug paraphernalia.
* Increase reporting requirements.
* Expand summons, search and seizure, and forfeiture
authority.
* Penalties for various aspects of drug smuggling.
• Coast Guard:
* Budget increased by $261 million for FY 1987-1988.
* 500 added personnel on Navy vessels in drug-smuggling
areas.
* Increase reserve strength to 1,500.
* Authorizes Guard to conduct air surveilliance .and drug
interdiction on high seas, and specifically to inspect, seize,
and arrest on vessels and aircraft subject to U.S. law.
• Drug Enforcement Administration:
* Adds $114 million, with an earmark of $54 million for
interdiction elTorls in the Bahamas.
• Mailing controlled substances is made a separate criminal
offense.
• Permits destruction of seized drugs after proper documentation
of those substances for trial evidence.
ENFORCr.MENT
• Drug Penalties Enhancement Act stiffens penalties for large-scale
domcslic trafficking, while taking into account sentencing
guidelines forthcoming from the U.S.Senlencing Commission.
• Drug Possession Penalty Act toughens penalties for simple
possevssion.
* Increased fines.
* Mandatory imprisonment for second offense.
* Repeal pre-trial diversion for first offenders.
• Continuing Drug Enterprise Penalty Act provides for imposition
of death penally for certain criminal offenses, in addition to
those in current law:
* Intentional killing in a continuing drug enterprise.
* Assassination of President
* Murder for hire.
* Murder by a Federal prisoner serving life sentence.
* Murder or loss of life arising out of taking hostages.
• Controlled Substances Import and Export Penalties
Enhancement Act conforms penalties for these violations to
those set in other portions of this bill.
• Juvenile Drug TralTicking Act sets enhanced penalties for:
* Involving minors in drug production or distribution.
* Selling drugs to minors.
* Distributing illegal drugs to a pregnant individual.
• Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act establishes new system
of record keeping and identification requirements to keep drug
precursor and essential chemicals out of hands of drug
iraffickcrs and to identify suspicious purchasers of those
chemicals.
ENFORCEMENT
• Increases various penalties for drug dealing without regard to
work of U.S. Sentencing Commi.ssion.
• Mandatory $1,000 fine for possession on any Federal
jurisdiction; higher fines for repeat possession.
• Death penally for killing during "a continuing criminal
enterprise" by drug ring of 5 or more people that has
committed 3 or more drug violations.
• Mandatory life sentence for second conviction of anyone over 21
who:
* Sells dnigs to anyone under 21.
* Sells or manufactures drugs within 1,000 feet of a school.
* No provision regarding distributing drugs to a pregnant
person.
• No provision regarding tracking of chemicals in drug trade.
• Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act pemiiLs forfeiture of substitute
assets when proceeds of a specified crime are lost, beyond
judicial reach, substantially diminished or commingled.
• Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act limits the Exclusionary Rule
to provide admissibility of evidence if search and seizure were
undertaken in reasonable belief that they were in conformity
with Fourth Amendment
• Pan III of the Senate Bill orders GSA and DOD to identify
U.S.-owned buildings which could be used as prisons.
PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES
• Narrow, two-year exemption from Competition in Contracting
Act to allow Federal government to accept certain volunteer
services.
• Permits domestic use of USIA films and other materials against
drug abuse.
Like Senate bill, permits forfeiture of substitute assets when a
convicted drug dealer has hidden his drug profits from
prosecutors.
Limits Exclusionary Rule in manner of Senate bill.
For Federal prison construction, adds 140 million in FY 1987,
$450 million in FY 1988. $500 million in FY 1989. (Senate
bill orders identification of U.S.-owned buildings convertabie
to prisons.)
SENATE REPUBLICAN BILL
PART II
DURING 1985 AND 1986, THE SENATE PASSED SEVERAL
BILLS THAT ARE IMPORTANT PARTS OF OUR NATIONAL
FIGHT AGAINST DRUG ABUSE. MANY OF THEIR
PROVISIONS HAVE NOW BEEN INCORPORATED INTO
H.R.5484. THE HOUSE-PASSED BILL.
Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act (S.630)
rewards persons who assist with arrest and conviction of killers or
kidnappers of a Federal drug agent
S. 850 makes it a Federal criminal offense to operate, or direct
operation of, a common carrier while intoxicated by alcohol or
drugs.
Technical Amendments to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act
(S.I 236) tightens penalties for certain drug-related crimes.
Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act (S.I298)
focuses resources on Native American youth.
Designer Drug Enforcement Act (S.I437):
* Makes unlawful manufacture with intent to distribute,
distribution, or processing of controlled substance analogs
(synthetic or designer drugs) intended for human
consumption without FDA approval.
* Increases fines from $250,000 to $500,000 for individuals and
$2 million for others.
RELA I ED PROVISIONS IN H.R. 5484
Withholds $1 million in narcotics control funds from Mexico
pending investigation of murders of DBA agent Enrique
Camarena Sala/ar and his pilot and pending full investigation
of detention and torture of DEA agent Victor Cortez.
Technical AmendmenLs: provisions similar to Senate bill.
Indians: $231 in additional spending for various programs of
drug abuse prevention and treatment, with particular focus on
youth.
Designer Drugs:
* Includes designer drugs as controlled substances.
* Creates major exception. Allows experimentation with these
analogs by anyone with any registration whatsoever under
the Controlled Substances Act
Department of Defense Authorization for FY 1987 (S.2638):
* Provides $227 million for drug interdiction by Customs
Service and Coast Guard.
* Includes "driving while impaired" in U.S. Code of Military
justice.
* Calls for study of drug use, treatment, and education at
DoD schools.
* Part III of Senate Republican bill provides for limited use of
the military in drug interdiction.
Money Laundering Crimes Act:
* Directly punishes laundering as offense.
* Strong penalties and forfeiture provisions.
* Money laundering added as a predicate for purposes of
wiretap and certain other statutes.
* Encourages financial instuitutions to provide voluntarily
information about suspected criminal activities.
* Provides for forfeiture of property within the U.S. that has
been acquired through drug trafficking in foreign countries.
Department of Defense:
* Requires DoD to "deploy equipment and personnel of the
armed forces sufllcienl to halt the unlawful penetration of
U.S. borders by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotic?;."
* Allows "hot pursuit" of drug traffickers into the U.S.
* Allows use of military personnel to assist drug enforcement
officials outside U.S.
* Requires DoD "loan" to civilian drug enforcement agencies
of approximately $213 million in interdiction equipment,
from existing appropriations.
* Requires dnig education in basic training; anti-drug abuse
program for all DoD personnel.
Money laundering - Similar to Senate bill:
* Criminal penalties for evading reporting requirements in a
currency transaction.
* Seizure or forfeiture of cash or property for causing bank
not to report certain currency transactions.
* Higher maximum penalties (from $500,000 to $1 million for
individuals and to $5 million for institutions) while reducing
the criminal standard from "willful" to "knowing."
* Authorizes Treasury to investigate and to require detailed
report on bank financial transactions involving more than
$3,000.
Creates new program, within Department of Justice, for grants
to Slate and local law enforcement agencies:
* $660 million in FY 1987, $695 million in FY 1988.
* 10% state and local matching requirement
* money may be used for non-federal prison constniction.
SENATE REPUBLICAN BILL
PARTI II
THIS PART INCLUDES A NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL
SENATE INITIATIVES.
COMMISSIONS, CONFERENCES, ETC.
• White House Conference on Drug Abuse, Education, Prevention
and TrcatmenU
• Requires National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to:
* Review to improve cooperation among Federal agencies and
with Stale and local governments.
* Study, in consultation with National Narcotics Border
Interdiction System and State and local law enforcement
oHicials, Federal drug law enforcement efforts and make
recommendations (report to Congress withing 180 days).
• Requires GSA Administrator and Secretary of Defense to
identify U.S. buildings which could be used as prisons.
H.R. 5484
RELATED PROVISIONS
COMMISSIONS. CONFERENCES, STUDIES, ETC.
• Wliite House Conference on Drug Abuse and Control.
• National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Education and
Prevention.
• $650,000 for Advisory Commission on Comprehensive
Education of Intercollegiate Athletes.
• Study by HHS and National Academy of Sciences on private
insurance and public program coverage of drug abuse
treatment.
• HHS study of effectiveness of federal, state, and local drug
abuse treatment programs.
• Study by Department of Transportation on drug abu,se and
highway safety.
• Study by HHS and Department of Education on existing drug
abuse education and prevention programs.
• $3 million study by Department of Labor on drug abuse in
workplace.
• Report from President on import of drugs from insular areas of
the U.S.
• Requires President to submit, within 6 months, plan to
reorganize Executive Branch to fight drug abuse.
• Creates a National Trust for Dnig-Free Youth.
REGULATORY COMMISSIONS
• Federal Aviation Administration must:
* Require in any "drug free workplace program" that
controllers and other agency personnel involved in air safely
submit to random drug testing.
* Establish program for testing of pilots, mechanics, and other
employees responsible for flight safety.
• Federal Communications Commission authorized to revoke
licenses and seize communications equipment used in drug
activities.
• Federal Railroad Administration must establish program for
random testing of railroad engineer and other employees
responsible for safely.
HIGHWAY SAFETY
• Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act (S.1903) cracks down on
drunk drivers:
* Establishes a uniform license for commercial bus and truck
drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked in
any State, to prevent them from shopping around in other
Stales for new licenses.
* Withhold Federal highway funds from Stales which refuse to:
- Participate in new uniform license system.
— Set .04 blood alcohol content as maximum axcceptable
level for commercial drivers.
* Increase from $20 million to $60 million the authorization
for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program, to allow
for more roadside testing of drivers. .
INHALANTS
• Makes it illegal to inhale, possess, purchase, sell or advertise
substances for purpose of intoxication.
• Sets penalties of 5 years and $250,000 fine for advertising; 6
months and $500 fine for possession or purchase of inhalants
for intoxication.
REGULATORY COMMISSIONS
• Prohibits Federal Aviation Administration from issuing airman
certificate to anyone whose certificate had been revoked
because of drug transport
TARIFFS
• Increases civil penally on smuggled drugs to 400% of value.
• Directs Customs Service to consult local law enforcement to
determine street value of seized drugs for purpose of setting
level of civil penalty.
HABEAS CORPUS
• Curbs abuse of habeas corpus petitions by allowing Federal
court to dismiss petition if it has been fully and fairly reviewed
by a State court
• Sets time limit for filing habeas corpus provisions.
ARMED CAREER CRIMINALS
• Broadens definition of armed career criminal to include anyone
with 3 or more convictions "for a crime of violence" or "a
serious drug offense, or both." (A career criminal convicted of
possession of gun gets automatic sentence of 15 years.)
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
• The Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Act (S.7I3):
* Prohibits sale and transport of paraphernalia through Postal
Service or in interstate commerce.
* Provides for seizure, forfeiture and destruction of
paraphernalia.
INTELLIGENCE
• Designates drug problem as a high priority target for national
intelligence.
• EsUiblishes an inter-agency coordinating committee to coordinate
intelligence activities of various agencies.
• Requires annual classified report to Intelligence Committees on
what U.S. Intelligence has done, will do. and could do about
drugs.
ARMED CAREER CRIMINALS
• Provisions substantially similar to those of Senate bill.
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
• ProhibiLs import of paraphernalia.
INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NARCOTICS
CONTROL
• Requires annual report by President concerning countries which;
* Facilitate drug traffic.
* Have senior officials who facilitate drug traffic.
* Have detained U.S. drug enforcement agents.
* Have refused to cooperate in anti-drug programs.
• Requires withdrawal of GSP status from countries which do not
cooperate in drug control.
• Prohibits aid (other than food and drug enforcement assistance)
to such countries unless:
* President certifies overriding national interest
* Proposed aid would secure better cooperation from recipient
nation.
• Requires willingness of foreign nation to enter into Mutual
Legal Assistance treaty with U.S., In order to combat money
laundering, must be part of presidential decision on foreign
aid.
• Modifies conditions for aid to Bolivia (recognizing that country's
cooperation with Operation Blast Furnace).
• Requires aerial and other surveys by intelligence agencies to
estimate illicit crop production.
INTERNATIONA!. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NARCOTICS
CONTROL
• Requires President to:
* Identify countries which do not cooperate with U.S. to
prevent traffic in illegal drugs.
* Deny benefits to those countries under General System of
Preferences and Caribbean Basin Initiative.
* lncrea.se duties on any or all products from those countries.
• Increases loans through international lending institutions for
substitution crops to replace drug production overseas.
• Instructs U.S. directors of those multilateral banks to vote
against loans for countries that fail to meet drug eradication
goals.
NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE
• Adds S45 million for FY 1987 for narcotics foreign assistance
and earmarks $10 million of that for eradication and
interdiction aircraft for use primarily in Latin America.
• U.S. will retain title to interdiction aircraft supplied to Mexico.
• $1 million earmark of narcotics assistance for research on aerial
herbicide for coca.
• GAO study of the Narcotics Assistance program.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
• Prohibits public disclosure of law enforcement investigative
information that could reasonably be expected to alert drug
dealers and organized crime of activity related to them.
U. S. FOREST SERVICE
• Grants arrest authority to, and permits carrying of Firearms by,
dc-signated Forest Service personnel.
• Authorizes Forest Service personnel to enforce the Controlled
Substances Act
• Prohibits possession of firearms or placing of boobytraps on
Federal property where a controlled substance is
manufactured.
NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE
• $7.9 million increase in FY 1987 for international narcotics
control.
• Additional $35 million contingent upon presidential request and
plan.
• Earmarks at least $10 million in FY 1987 military assistance for
aircraft for narcotics eradication in countries getting narcotics
control aid. (At least 50% must support aircraft based in l^tin
America.)
• Earmarks $2 million in FY 1987 military education and training
funds for operation and maintenance of narcotics control
aircraft
• Similar to Senate provision.
• Similar to Senate provision.
• Similar to Senate provision.
TRUST FUNDS FOR TAX REFUNDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
• Allows taxpayers to designate all or part of refund — as well as
additional contributions -- for a Drug Addiction Prevention
Trust Fund.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
• Provides general, as opposed to limited, arrest autbority to
agents in the INS.
BORDER INTERDICTION
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• Provides for limited use of the military in drug interdiction.
• Allows military personnel to intercept vessels or aircraft to
identify, monitor, and communicate their location and
movement until law enforcement officials can assume
responsibility.
COASTGUARD
• Rec0gni7.es vital role of Coast Guard and need for adequate
funds.
• Provides continuing authority for Coast Guard to engage in
maritime air surveillance and interdiction.
• Clarifies existing authority concerning inspections, examinations,
searches, seizures and arrests.
DRUG EDUCATION ABROAD
• $2 million for USIA; $3 million for AID.
INSULAR AREAS
• Various provisions to strengthen drug enforcement In American
Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands.
• Allocates specific amounts for Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands.
ENFORCEMENT OF DRUG LAWS
Over 20 agencies in the United States Government now cooperate in Federal drug iaw enforcement.
The President's budget for 1987 proposes increasing the already high level of resources
dedicated to this important mission.
Current services:
Budget authority
Outlays
FUNDING SUMMARY
(In millions ol dollars)
mi 1986 1987
1,645 1.627 1,654
1,634 1,627 1,653
1988
1,680
1,679
1989
1,704
1,703
1990
1,725
1,724
1991
1,742
1,741
President's budget:
Budget authority
Outlays
n.a. 1,627
1,627
1,808
1,799
1,864
1,861
1,890
1,889
1,913
1,912
1,932
1,931
Increase from current services:
Outlays 146 181 186 188 190
PROGRAM HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS
The administration considers improvements to the Federal drug law enforcement program to ^
one of its top domestic priorities. Over the past 5 years, the President has successfully sought
additional resources for drug law enforcement in a number of agencies.
• Government-wide resources devoted to drug enforcement have grown 96% in real terms since
1981, and will total almost $2 billion in 1987.
• Beginning in 1982, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) joined the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DBA) in narcotics investigations and today has over 1,200 agents devoted to
this task.
• The National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, headed by the Vice President, was initiated
in 1983 to help coordinate the Nation's efforts to stem drug smuggling.
• In 1983, the FBI, DBA, and 6 other Federal agencies began participating in what grew to be
13 Organized Crime Drug Enforcement (OCDE) Task Forces that, together with smaller
satellite offices, place higher than normal levels of manpower and other resources in 83 cities
throughout the United States.
• These task forces focus additional investigative resources on high-level narcotics traffickers
who operate in organized rings. Since its inception in 1983, the CODE task force program has
been responsible for over 3,000 convictions.
• The Defense Department, which began lending assistance to the drug effort in 1981, flew over
3,000 flights in 1985 involving over 10,400 flying hours searching for ships and aircraft
carrying illegal drugs into the United States, and has made available over $111 million worth
of aircraft and other major equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies.
The Nation's criminal drug investigations are conducted primarily by the DBA and FBI and are
targeted at uncovering and disrupting the organized networks that produce, transport, and distribute
illegal narcotics.
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• The Government's drug interdiction effort, whose purpose is to stop individual shipments of
drugs in transit to the United States, is principally conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard and
the Customs Service.
• The State Department will spend about $67 million in 1986 on programs to reduce or
eliminate drug crops, targeted mainly in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
• Destruction of domestic marijuana crops is carried out primarily by the U.S. Forest Service
and the DEA in conjunction with State and local law enforcement agencies nationwide.
ADMINISTRATION PROPOSAL
The administration is proposing to maintain current level funding for most drug enforcement
programs. In selected, high-priority areas the budget proposes increases.
• An increase of $48 million is requested for the DEA to hire an additional 80 agents in 1987,
and to initiate a multi-year plan to buy voice privacy radios for every agent and computers
that will be equipped to process top secret information.
• Approximately $9 million is requested for the FBI to put in place an advanced computer
system that will aid in drug intelligence.
• An increase of $34 million is requested for ongoing Coast Guard interdiction operations.
Only one program reduction is proposed—a rescission of $19 million for the Customs Service air
interdiction program for 1986.
• This reduction eliminates marginal congressional add-ons, maintains the Customs program at
its 1985 level, and avoids additional expenditures for a program that has not proven to be cost
effective.
The increases devoted to drug law enforcement have begun to produce results, but the problems
caused by illicit drug trafficking are pervasive and continuing. Only by continuing its commitment in
this area can the Nation be sure of achieving results.
• The administration's request for 1987 proposes increases only in those areas that are truly
essential, and combines current level funding with one reduction for the remeiinder of the
drug enforcement program.
• This produces a government-wide drug enforcement request that offers the best chance of
gaining on the war against drugs, while at the same time exercising fiscal restraint in the
face of large Federal deficits.
• At the President's request level, drug related arrests by the DEA and FBI are projected to
increase by 70% over 1981.
• The proposed reduction in the Customs air program reflects a reorientation of scarce resources
from interdiction programs into investigations and intelligence.
• Adequate funding is provided to maintain the Customs detection capability at its 1985 level by
concentrating resources on the elements most crucial to the success of the program.
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March 22, 1986
Mr. Andres Gordon
3458 East Monte Carlo Drive
Las Vegas, Nevada 89121
Dear Mr. Gordon:
Thank you for your recent telephone call to my Las Vegas office
regarding drug trafficking in America. I appreciate the time you
took to let me know of your concern.
You will be pleased to learn that Congress significantly
strengthened federal penalties for drug-related offenses during
the deliberation and subsequent passage of the Comprehensive Crime
Control Act of 1984.
Additionally, I have taken the liberty of enclosing an excerpt
from the Administration's Fiscal Year 1987 federal budget
proposals detailing the President's committment to insuring that
adequate funds are spent--even in this time of scarce federal
resources—on enforcement of federal drug laws.
I am unaware of any Senate hearings planned In the near future
specifically dealing with federal drug laws, but you may be
assured that I will keep your interest in mind should something
along these lines be scheduled.
Again, thank you for calling.
Sincerely,
Chic Hecht
CHrgs
Enclosure
4/9//-^
Military iToic in Untg f ight uutlmea
Services Could Plm Assuvlls, Equip and Vrampoit Polico
By Joanne Oinana
Waslwiiitwi IV.1 Sljll Wiit. r
U.S. military personnel will be
allowed to help U.S. agencies and
foreign governments plan assaults
on narcotics traffickers, equip police
forces and transport them to
attack sites under a new presidential
directive that defines drug traffic
as a threat to U.S. national security,
administration officials said
yesterday.
The secret National Security Decision
Directive, revealed Saturday
by Vice President Bush, will also
permit the armed forces to dedicate
personnel and equipment such as
radar-equipped airplanes or satellites
to fighting drug traffic, the
officials said.
Military assistance against narcotics
has been limited mostly to
training U.S. and foreign personnel
and to providing temporary loans of
equipment on a space-available basis,
in part because military leaders
have been wary of allowing their
forces to be turned into police officers,
Defense Secretary Caspar
W. Weinberger once called the idea
"very dangerous and undesirable."
Until 1981, even that level of aid
was against the law.
Now the armed forces will be
able to help in almost any area of
drug law enforcement except arrests,
seizure of materials and apprehension
of suspects, as long as
their primary defense mission is not
jeopardized, the officials said.
A major effort last year to disrupt
drug transport in the Caribbean,
called Operation Hat Trick II, used
military surveillance aircraft to spot
smugglers and track them for foreign
governments and the Coast
Guard. The operation is likely to be
expanded under the new directive.
Other new activities aimed at
breaking the reported link between
narcotics traffic and international
terrorism are still in the planning
stages, the officials said.
President Reagan signed the directive
April 8 after nearly a year of
interagency studies and recommendations
from the joint Chiefs of
Staff, among others, that the antidrug
role of the U.S military could
be expanded, according to the officials.
"For the first time, the U.S. government
.specifically states that the
international drug trade is a national
security concern because of its
ahilitv to destabilize democratic allies
through the corruption of police
and judicial institutions," Bush said
in making public a declassified version
of the directive. He also said "a
very real link between drugs and
terrorism" exists.
But the directive "stops short of
making drug interdiction a mission
of the Defense Department" and
leaves civilian law enforcement
agencies in the lead role at home
and abroad, said Howard Gehring.
director of the vice president's National
Narcotics Border Interdiction
System, an interagency drug control
effort.
Morton H. Halperin, director of
the Washington office of the American
Civil Liberties Union, said he is
concerned that involving the armed
forces in drug control might lead to
covert activity—such as surveillance
of U.S. citizens—that would
be illegal under ordinary law enforcement
procedures. "The military
should stay out of law enforcement.
They're not trained in it,
don't know about constitutional
rights .... There are none of the
norma! checks," he said.
If Reagan wants additional capability
to fight drugs, "he should ask
Congress to fund it for the regular
agencies. That way there would be
a public debate over whether the
changes are in the public interest,"
Halperin said.
Barry W. Lynn, an ACLU legislative
counsel, said military involvement
could lead to chain-of-command
problems and to difficulties in
presenting evidence that may have
been obtained by covert means at
drug trials. "You can't hide the role
of military officials in gathering evidence
once a case goes to court,"
he said.
The existing level of military involvement
was permitted by a 1981
revision of the post-Civil War posse
comitatus act that had barred the
armed forces from all domestic law
enforcement.
Lt, Col. Pete Wyro, speaking for
the Defense Department, said the
Pentagon is allowed to pass along to
drug agencies information it obtains
while conducting its norma! business.
such as telling them the path
of a "low, slow plane in an area
known for drug traffic." Other officials
said spy satellite information
is also provided routinely.
The 1981 act also allows the loan
of equipment such as Army Blackhawk
helicopters to the Drug Fnhiroement
Agency, which provides
its own pilots and maintenance, and
the training of drug agency and foreign
personnel in using borrowed
radar, night vision devices, cryptographic
equipment and helicopters,
Wyro said.
U.S. Navy ve.ssels carrying Coast
Guard teams have intercepted suspect
boats, held them while the
Coast Guardsmen searched them
and made arrests, and then towed
the boats to shore, he said.
"It is fair to assume" that all
these activities would increase under
the new directive, he added.
Wyro said current law requires
that all requests for assistance be
weighed for their impact on the fundamental
military mission. According
to Gehring, this requirement
stands under the new directive, but
narcotics traffic is now "a higher
priority for assessing defense
needs."
The directive lists six areas of
expanded action:
• Foreign assistance planning: "A
new door is opened" for military aid
for civil law enforcement agencies
abroad, although "some conditions"
will be attached to avoid abuses
such as those that have occurred in
the past when U.S. aid was involved
in coups or human rights violations,
. Gehring said.
U.S military aircraft can be used
to transport foreign police "only if
U.S. pilots are on board . . . and for
very limited uses," he said. U.S.
personnel involvement in "lifethreatening
situations" will be kept
at "an absolute minimum," he
added.
• Supporting counternarcotics effort.
s: Regional or hemispheric antidrug
operations bringing together
U.S. and allied forces could be
planned in the Pentagon. Communications
equipment for detecting
incoming traffic and security for the
equipment, such as coding techniques,
is "more likely" to be provided
than armaments, Gehring
said.
• International talks: "Drugs will
now be taken into consideration in
any bilateral or multilateral agreements,"
he said.
• Intelligence efforts: Drug-related
work will .become a priority instead
of "being fitted in somewhere,
Gehring said.
• Communications: Scrambling,
jamming and codes will keep mteracency
communications secure. _
• Promoting foreign control and
education programs.
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House Panels Begin Drafung
Ambitious Antidrug Program
By George C. Wilson
WuliiDgton Poat Sulf Wiilcr .
House committees yesterday began
drafting a battle plan for combating
drugs that is so ambitious—
ranging from military interdiction
to new educational programs—it
could end up costing $5 billion a
year,, according to congression^
estimates.
The i new program is being
mapped out against the backdrop of
a commitment from the Reagan
adnuaistration to spend $359 millionZnext
year to interdict drug
smdSslcrs, broaden intelligence
gatG^ing and drug prosecution,
and!S^nd more money to prevent
druB^buse.
The administration's blueprint is
coniaJned in a letter that Attorney
Getsr^l Edwin Meese III recently
senC^o Congress and Vice Presidet^^
ush. Meese called ,the $359
million effort "a balanced approach."
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip)
O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), in calling for
an all-out war on drugs, stressed in
meetings with Democratic leaders,
acceding to several persons who
attended, that he wants 4 bipartisan
campaign and not a Democratic political
effort to preempt President
Reagan on the suddenly- popular
drug issue.
Sep. Glenn English (D-Okla.), wdio
as Chairman of a Government Operations
subcommittee has been focusing
on ways to interdict drugs bound
for Ibe United States, said yesterday
that he could not put a price on the
O'Neill initiative but "it is likely to
run into the multibillions each year."
English said he saw no indication
that either Congress or the White
House would propose raising taxes
to pay for the program. "There will
have to be a diange in priorities,"
English said, "Nwith money coming
from other programs.'
Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.),
who has been allied with English in
the effort to push the military into
drug interdiction, said last night
that he and other senators will introduce
a companion measure to
the one being drafted for O'Neill.
He estimated the annual cost of
such a program at between $3 billion
and $5 billion.
Although a general tax increase
to pay for the effort is not politically
palatable, DeConcini said, "enhanced
revenues" could be a source
of financing. He said he favored increasing
tobacco taxes and using
the increases Reagan had earmarked
for the Defense Department
to fight drug use.
Meese in his letter said the administration's
National Drug Enforcement
Policy Board, which he
heads, wanted to work with Congress
"to end this national scourge."
The board recommended spending
the bulk of the $359 million in fiscal
1987 on aircraft to interdict drug
smugglers.
The rest of the remaining money
would be spent on intelligence collection.
dnig investigations, drug
prosecution and drug prevention.
Nuns Deny
Retracting
Abortion View
By Maijorie Hyer
Wishingion Post Sl>H Writer
Eleven American nuns yesterday
"categorically denied" a statement
' this
Patricia Hussey, members of the
Notre Dame de Namur order that
operates a shelter for homeless women
in Charleston, W.Va., were
cleared.
Hamer said Monday that the Vatican
has "accepted public declarations
of adherence to Catholic doctrine"
against abortion from 22 nuns
involved. He raised the prospect of
"formal disciplinary procedures in
accord with church law" if the Notre
Dame sisters failed to conform.
Sister Maureen Fiedler of the unofficial
Quixote Center here said yesJ
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f e d e r a l d r u g t r a f f i c k i n g l a w s . I a p p r e c i a t e t h e t i m e y o u t o o k t o
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c r i m e s i s a n e f f e c t i v e d e t e r r e n t t o t h e c o m m i s s i o n o f t h e s e
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Reagan Asks Wider Drug Testing
By Thomas B. Edsall
W.ishuiKiof) Writtr
President Reagan, beginning an
expanded effort to reduce illegal
drug use, called yesterday for mandatory
drug testing of all federal
employes with sensitive posts in law
enforcement, national security,
safety and public health.
Reagan signaled that his program,
still to be detailed, would not
require such testing of all federal
employes.
Instead, most federal agencies
would establish volunteer testing
programs, and the federal hiring
process could be modified to require
drug screening of all prospective
employes.
Questioned by reporters at the
White House, Reagan commented
that he and members of his Cabinet
would willingly submit to drug testing.
The president declared that his
intention *is not to announce another
short-term government offensive
but to call instead for a sustained
national effort to rid America of this
scourge—by mobilizing every segment
of our society against drug
abuse."
Reagan outlined six "goals" for
his program—"a drug-free work
place," "drug-free schools," treatment
of drug abusers, "international
cooperation," "strengthening law
enforcement" and expanded "public
awareness." But he did not make
clear exactly how these goals would
be achieved.
The central strategy outlined in
his remarks and in subsequent
background briefings for reporters
is an expanded drive to identify users
of illegal drugs in the public and
private sectors through voluntary
and mandatory testing.
Once identified, such users initially
would be offered treatment
instead of facing dismissal and arrest
"We mean to reach out to the
drug user," Reagan said. "Our goal
is not to throw users in jail but to
free them from drugs. We will offer
a helping hand, but we will also
pressure the user at school and in
the work place to straighten up, to
get clean."
White House aides said there are
between 3 million and 5 million regular
cocaine users and about 18 million
marijuana users nationwide.
Since 1981, the number of drug-related
deaths and emergency room
visits has tripled, they said.
No decision has been made about
how much money to put into the
new initiative, although Reagan said
"there is going to be a cost, and we
are going to have to fmd that money."
Some drug tests can cost as
much as $100.
House Majority Leader James C.
Wright Jr. (D-Tex.) said: "We are
encouraged by the fact that he
(Reagan] is awakened to the reality
of the problem." But, Wright contended,
a large increase in funds is
needed because current spending
levels are like "trying to fight a bear
with a fly swatter."
Kenneth P. Blaylock, president of
the American Federation of Government
Employees, said his union
"stands ready to work with [Reagan]
and the White House to solve
whatever drug problems exist in
the federal work place."
He said that drug testing should
be restricted to cases involving
"probable cause" to suspect illegal
use and that testing should be done
while fully respecting employes'
due-process rights.
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TODAY IN CONGRESS
SENATE
Me«ts at 9:15 a.m.
Committees:
Aarlcunure. Nutrition and Fomlry—9:30 a.m. Open. Hrngs. to
review agricultural traiJe issues. Clayton Yeutter, U.S. trade rep. 332
Russell Office Building.
Appropriations—10:30 a.m. Open. Labor. HHS, education and
rMled agencies subc. Maig up appropriating funds for FY87 for
Depts. of Labor, HHS and Education and related agencies. 116
DIrksen Office Building.
Appropriations—11 a.m. Open. Transportation and related agencies
subc. Business meeting to consider FY87 appropriations for the Dept.
of Transportation and related agencies. S-128 Capitol.
Appropriations—2 p.m. Open. Business meeting to mark up FY87
appropriations for the military construction subc, and FY87
appropriations for Itie Olslrlct of Columbia government. 192 OOB.
Armed Services—10 a.m. Open<ltised. Hmgs. on legislation
providing for the establlshmeni within the 000 capabilities of the U.S.
to combat terrorism and ottier forms of unconventional warfare. 222
ROB.
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs—10:30 a.m. Open. Hrngs. on
the nomlrations of H. Robert Heller to be a member of the board of
governors of the Federal Reserve System and Iriichael Musa to be a
member of the Council of Economic Advisers. 538 DOB.
Commerce. Science and Transportation—10 a.m. Open. Science,
technology end space subc. FYS? budget hrngs. for NASA. 253 ROB.
Energy ervd Naturef Reeourcos—10 a.m. Open. Natural resources
development anO production subc Ovoreight timgS- on the proepacts
lor —porfing Americen coel. 366 DOB.
liidli 'i > 11 a m Opwi Hrr^ On ma narrUnMien o« ArWonm Seelie
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Republican Policy—12:30 p.m. Closed. Luncheon meeting. S-207
Cap.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Committees:
Agrlcultura 9:30 a.m. Open. Wheat, soybeans aitd feed grains, and
dept. ops., research and for. agriculture subcs. Joint hmgs. on federal
grain quality standards. 1302 Longworth House Office Building.
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs—9:30 a.m. Open. Housing and
community development subc. On HUD report on Cuyahcga
Metropolitan Housing Authority (Ohio), 2128 Raybum House Office
Building.
Banking. Finance and Urban Affairs—10:30 a.m. Open. Economic
stabilization subc. Continue hmgs. on U.S.-Canada economic and
trade relations: importance of bilateral trade relationship. 2220
RHO0. _
Energy and Commerce—9:45 a.m. Open. Heattfi and envirooment
subc. Mark up Non-Smokers Protection Act, arid pending drug abuse,
animal drug and immunaatlon legislation. 2123 RHOB.
Foreign Affairs—11 a.m. Open. International narcotics control task
force. On U.S. military rote In narcotics control overseas. 2200 RHOB.
Government Operation*—10 a.m. Open. Mark up Inspector Gen.
Act amendments; Freedom of Informatioo Act amendments, end
misc. reports. 2154 RHOB.
Irvterlor end fnsulaf Affelr*—9:45 a.m. Open. Public lands subc.
Mark up public lands tegrtlaUoo m Cellforma, Now Atexico, Utah.
Tennessee, Wisconsin, Aruona. and Alaska. 1310 LH06.
liiilk iai) 10 a.m. Open. Marii upprovtd. additional banbrapbcy
I unae penaritea tor rekpeus p«warty davneo*; oiriar weed
avvenoens. Pewvl EouOy Act. wd ewele Wte. 2141 MOB
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August 5,1986
MEASURES REFERRED
The following bills were read the
first and second times by unanimous
consent, and referred as indicated;
H.R. 4555. An act to designate the Federal
Building at Spring and High Streets in Columbus,
OH. a-s t.lie "John W. Briclcer Federal
Building"; to the Committee on Environment
and Pubiic Works.
H.R. 4825. An act to amend chapter 89 of
title 5, United States Code, to provide authority
for the direct payment or reimbursement
of certain additional types of health
care professionals; to clarify certain provisions
of such chapter with respect to coordination
with State and local law: and for
other purposes; to the Committee on Government
Affairs.
H.R. 5233. An act making appropriation!
for the Departments of Labor. Health anc
Human Services, and Education, and reiatet.
agencies for the fi.scal year ending Septeif
ber 30, 1987. and for other purposes; to tl
Committee on Appropriations.
H.R. 5234. An act making approprlatioi
for the Department of the Interior and r^.
lated agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30. 1987. and for other purposes;
to the Committee on Appropriations.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
The following reports of committees
were submitted:
By Mr. SPECTER, from the Committee
on Appropriations, with amendments:
H.R. 5175: A bill making appropriations
for the government of the District of Columbia
and other activities chargeable in
whole or in part against the revenues of said
District for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1987. and for otlier purposes (Rept.
No. 99-367).
By Mr. MATTINGLY, from the Committee
on Appropriations, with amendments:
H.R. 5052: A bill making appropriations
for Military Construction for the Department
of Defense tor the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1987. and for other purposes
(RcDt. No. 99-368).
By Mr. SYMMS, from the Committee on
Environment and Public Works, with
amendments:
S. 2405: A bill to authorise appropriations
for ceruin highways in accordance with
title 23. United States Code, and for other
purposes (Rept. No. 99-369).
By Mr. SYMMS. from the Committee on
Environment and Public Works, without
amendment:
S. Res. 459: An original resolution waiving
section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 for the consideration of S. 2405.
By Mr, THURMOND, from the Committee
on the Judiciary, without amendment:
S. 1421: A bill consenting to a modification
in the Susciuehanna River Basin Compact
relating to the rate of interest on bonds
issued by the Susquehanna River Basin
Commission.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND
JOINT RESOLUTIONS
The following bills and Joint resolutions
were introduced, read the first
and second time by unanimous consent,
and referred as indicated:
By Mr. GORTON (for himself and Mr.
DANTOBTH):
S. 2714. A bill to authorize appropriations
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
for research and development,
space flight, control and data communications.
construction of facilities, and research
and program management, and tor other
purposes: to the Committee on Commerce.
Science, and Transportation.
By Mr. CHILES (for himself, Mr.
BiDEN. Mr. BYRD. Mr. CRAMSTON. Mr.
DECONCINI, Mr. DODD. Mr. LEAHY,
Mr. NUNN. Mr. ROCKEFEI.I.EH. and Mr.
SASSES):
S. 2715. A bill to provide an emergency
Federal response to the crack cocaine epidemic
through law enforcement, education
and public awareness, and prevention: to
nittee on Labor and Human Resources.
By Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr.
CHILES, Mr. BYHD. Mr. CRAMSTOM,
Mr. DBCONCIKI, Mr. DODD, Mr.
LEAHY, Mr. NUNN, Mr. ROCKEPBLLER,
Mr. SASSER. Mr. BOREN. Mr. INOUYE,
Mr. MELCHEH. Mr. KERRY, Mr. BUMPERS.
Mr. HART, Mr. BIHOAMAN, Mr.
HEPLIN, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. LEVIN, Mr.
SARBANES, Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. JOHNSTON,
Mr. PRYOR. Mr. FORD, Mr.
GORE. Mr, LAUTEHBERO, Mr. LONG,
Mr. PELL. Mr. MOYNIHAN, Mr. SIMON,
Mr. GLENN. Mr. METZENBAUM. Mr.
HOLLiNos. and Mr. MATSUNAGA):
S. 2718. A bill to establish an Office of the
Director of National and International Drug
Operations and Policy: to the Committee on
Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. QUAYLE;
S. 2717. A bill to amend the Agricultural
Act of 1949 to require the ConwuJdity
Credit Corporation to pay produi»rs for onfarra
storage of commodities, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture.
Nutrition, and Forestry.
By Mr. RIEGLE (for himself. Mr.
HOLLINOS, Mr. GORE, and Mr. BOCKEPELLEB);
S. 2718. A bill to authorize appropriations
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
for research and development,
space flight, control and data communications.
construction of facilities, and research
and program management, and for other
purposes: to the Committee on Commerce.
Science, and Transportation.
By Mrs. HAWKINS:
S. 2719. A bill to eliminate the statute of
limitations for serious drug offenses under
the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act;
to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. CHAPEE (for himself and Mr.
LAUTENBERG):
S. 2720. A bill to establish an Asbestos Information
Clearinghouse In the Environmental
Protection Agency: to the Committee
on Environment and Public Works.
By Mr. DODD (for himself. Mr.
CHILES, Mr. BIDEN. Mr. BYRD, Mr.
CRANSTON. Mr. DECONCINI, Mr.
LEAHY, Mr. NUNN, and Mr. ROCKEFELLERI:
SJ. Res. 386. Joint resolution to designate
October 6, 1988, as "National Drug Abuse
Education Day": to the Committee on the
Judiciary,
By Mr. HECHT (for himself. Mr.
GAHN. Mr. RIEGLB. Mr. GORTON, Mr.
CRANSTON, Mr. EAGLETON, Mr. DODD.
Mr. DECONCINI, Mr. HEPLIN, Mr.
INOUYE. Mr. ABDNOR, Mr. MEIXMER,
Mr. DIXON. Mr. BOSCHWITZ, Mr.
LuGAF. Mr. MOYNIHAN, Mr. DOMENici,
Mr. SASSER. Mr. SARBANES. Mr.
PROXMIRE. Mr. STAPFORD. Mr.
GRAMM, Mrs. HAWKINS, Mr. MATTLNGLY
and. Mr. WEICKEH);
S.J. Res. 387. Joint resolution to designate
the week of October 19. 1986. through October
28. 1986. "National Housing Week": to
the Committee on the Judiciary.
S10425
SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT
AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS
The following concurrent resolutions
and Senate resolutions were read, and
referred (or acted upon), as indicated:
By Mr. SYMMS from the Committee
on Environment and Public Works;
S- Res. 459. An original resolution waiving
section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 for the consideration of S. 2405;
to the Committee on the Budget.
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
By Mr. GORTON (for himself
and Mr. DANFORTH):
S. 2714. A bill to authorize appropriations
for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for research
and development, space flight, control
and data communications, construction
of facilities, and re.search and program
management, and for other purposes:
to the Committee on Commerce.
Science, and Transportation.
(The remarks of Mr. GORTON and
the text of the legislation appear earlier
in today's RECORD.)
By Mr. CHILES (for himself, Mr.
BIDEN, Mr. BYRD, Mr. CRANSTON,
Mr. DECONCINI, Mr.
DODD, Mr. LEAHY. Mr. NUNN.
Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. SASSER.
Mr. BOREN, Mr. INOUYE. Mr.
MELCHEH, Mr. KERRY, Mr.
BUMPERS, Mr. HART, Mr. BINGAMAN.
Mr. HELFIN, Mr. BAUCUS,
Mr, LEVIN. Mr. SARBANES. Mr.
MITCHELL, Mr. JOHNSTON, Mr.
PHYOR. Mr. FORD. Mr. GORE,
Mr. LATTTENBERG, Mr. LONG, Mr.
ROCKEFELLER, Mr. MOYNIHAN,
Mr. SIMON, Mr. GLENN, Mr.
METZENBAUM, Mr. HOLLINGS.
and Mr. MATSUNAGA):
S. 2715. A bill to provide an emergency
Federal response to the crack
cocaine epidemic through law enforcement.
education, and public awareness,
and for other purposes; to the Committee
on Labor and Human Resources.
By Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr.
CHILES, Mr. BYRD, Mr. CRANSTON,
Mr. DECONCINI, Mr.
DODD, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. NUNN,
Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. SASSER,
Mr. BOREN, Mr. INOUYE, Mr.
MELCHER, Mr, KERRY, Mr.
BUMPERS, Mr. HART. Mr. BINGAMAN,
Mr. HEFLIN. Mr, BAUCUS,
Mr. LEVIN, Mr. SARBANES, Mr.
MITCHELL. Mr. JOHNSTON, Mr.
PRYOR, Mr. FORD, Mr. GORE,
Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. LONG, Mr.
PELL. Mr." MOYNIHAN, Mr.
SIMON. Mr. GLENN. Mr. METZENBAUM.
Mr. HOLLINGS, and Mr.
MATSUNAGA):
S. 2716. A bill to establish an Office
of the Director of National and International
Drug Operations and Policy;
to the Committee on Governmental
Affairs.
R 10426 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 5, 1986
tlHirC LECllSLflllOS
• Mr. CHILES. Mr. President. Senator
BIDEN and I are introducing today a
package of legislation which addresses
tiie growing emergency of crack cocaine.
Crack cocaine and its lethal efftxrts
are an epidemic in this country.
With the opening of a new school year
upon us, it is imperative that the Congress
take immediate and decisive
action. Each day of delay costs us
lives. With each day. crack becomes
further and further entrenched in our
communities, and it will be increasingly
difficult to uproot the network of
dealers and traffickers who have engineered
its insidious spread.
Crack cocaine is now widely available
in over 25 Stales. It is out of control
in New York. Los Angeles, Detroit.
Houston, and Miami. In my State of
Florida, 66 percent of the law enforcement
officials tell me that the crack
cocaine problem is serious or severe in
their jurisdictions. Crack users tell me
that they can drive the length of my
Slate and find crack in every large
town without any trouble whatsover.
Usually, they don't even have to get
cat of their car. The dealers provide
ci'.rbside service.
Crack is also a killer. In south Florida
alone. 34 people died in the first 6
months of this year from cocaine overdoses.
And they were not street punks
or addicts hooked on other drugs.
They came from all walks of life, and
tliey were so-called recreational users
wlio never knew what hit them. Just
remember the deaths of sports stars
l.en Bias and Don Rogers.
Crack is arailable to the young, and
it will be in Ihe schools this fall. Police
liave told me horror story after horror
slory involving children as young as
nine who are already crack users. The
dealers and traffickers also use the
.young as lookouts and workers in
crack houses. This carmot be tolerated.
We have all heard of cocaine, but I
must stress to you that crack cocaine
is something altogether different. It is
more powerful: it is cheaper to use; it
is also far more addictive. Crack cocaine
is a purified form of powdered
cocaine that is smoked. A hit of crack
costs around $10, well within the
budget of any teenager. When smoked,
crack reaches the brain in less than 10
seconds. It produces a short but incredibly
powerful high that is follow^ed
by an equally powerful low. This rapid
cycle of euphoria and depression is
wliat produces in users the intense
craving for the crack. That is why
users say addiction can begin after
only their second use of crack.
In the wake of crack cocaine comes
increased crime. Crime rates are skyrocketing
in communities across the
country, and law enforcement attributes
the increases to crack. Once
addicted, per.sons with no criminal
records lose all scruples and morals
and become thieves and killers.
Crack is a growing plague. It requires
emergency action on all fronts.
That is the purpose of the bills we are
introducing today. They address the
crack cocaine emergency in terms of
law enforcement, education, and
health and prevention. We must help
our law enforcement officials by
strengthening criminal penalties for
crack cocaine. This is an absolutely essential
first step. But law enforcement
officials tell me that is not enough;
they require help in combating crack.
That is why both education and
health and prevention programs are
equally necessary,
Current law makes it very difficult
to arrest and convict crack dealers and
traffickers. The stlffest penalties for
possession of cocaine apply for possession
of 1 kilo of cocaine. A kilo is
enough to produce as much as 25,000
rocks. The kilo limit imposes no difficulties
on the traffickers and dealers.
Police also have difficulty arresting
the operators of crack houses, the
places where users congregate to purchase
and use crack. When police raid
these crack houses, the dealers and
users can easily dispose of the drugs,
thus avoiding ai-rest.
Our bills move cocaine freebase to
schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances
Act and decrease to 5 grams
the amount required for enhanced
penalties to apply. The penalties are
as follows;
Violsllon First olfense Repeal offense
5 grams up to 20 years. .. up to 40 years
up to $250.000 ... up to SSOO.OOO
The measure.? also strengthen penalties
for other particular crack-related
offenses. They make it a felony with
double penalties for anyone who employs,
hires, or u.ses minors in illegal
drug enterprises. They make It a new
offense of 20 years and/or $250,000 for
those who maintain or operate a crack
house or facility where drugs are manufactured,
distributed, used, or stored.
Penalties also Increase when crack
cocaine is found within 1,000 feet of a
school. Double penalties are imposed
when the crack houses are within
1,000 feet of a school. The bills also
expand existing law so that increased
penalties apply for distributing or
manufacturing any drugs within 1,000
feet of a school.
These bills will help police put
behind bars the dealers and traffickers
in crack. Those who lead our young
down the path to addiction will have
to think twice about their actions or
pay dearly.
Our measures also recognize the importance
of education in efforts to
stop the spread of crack. They direct
the President to designate October 6
as National Drug Abuse Education
Day with an emphasis on crack education
in the classrooms.
The Department of Education is directed
to provide emergency assistance
to schools on the crack epidemic and
ways to address and prevent further
usage of the drug. They also establish
an Office and Program of Drug and
Alcohol Abuse within the Department
of Education which will assist schools
in developing drug and alcohol abuse
programs within their curriculums.
The bills also propose a Federal program
of assistance for those Slates
who agree to include drug education in
their curriculum.
Students will be faced with the
temptations of crack and other drugs
•during their school years. It Is essential
that we provide them with the
knowledge and the support systems
which will allow them to resist these
temptations.
The legislation also directs the Centers
for Disease Control to prepare a
report on the impact of crack cocaine,
a data base for practitioners to use in
responding to the diseases associated
with crack, effective methods of treating
crack addicts, and analysis of existing
educational programs on crack.
They also direct the National Institute
on Drug Abuse to prepare public
service announcements warning the
public about the intensified effects of
cocaine freebase—crtack.
If we are to successfully battle crack,
all of these measures must be passed.
Law enforcement must be able to address
crack with laws that have some
teeth. But that is not enough. The
education of potential users and the
treatment of those who have succumbed
to crack's seductions and
become addicts are absolutely imperative.
I urge my colleagues to give these
bills immediate and serious attention.
They will prevent crime, and they wiil
save lives.
Mr. Pre.sident, 1 ask unanimous consent
that the text of these bills be inserted
at this point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the bills
were ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows;
S. 2715
Be it enacted by the Senate aiiti House of
Representatives of the United States of
Anieriea in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORTTITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Emergenoy
Crack Control Act of 1986".
TITLE I—L.4W ENFtlKCEMENT
SEC. ini. AUDITION Of COCAINE FKEKUASE TO srilKm I.K I.
fa) RESCHEOULINC.—Schedule I of section
202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act is
amended by adciing at llie end thereof the
following:
"<d) Cocaine freebase.".
(b) INCREASEB PENALTIES.—Subsectlon
(bXlXA) of section 401 of the Controlled
Substances Act is amended by—
(1) striking out "or" after the semicolon in
clause (iii);
<2) striking out the matter after the semicolon
in clause (iv) through the period and
Inserting in lieu thereof "or" and the following:
"(v) 5 grams or more of cocaine freebase,
such person shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of not more than 20 years or
a fine of not more than $250,000. or both.".
ARLEN SPECTER
ibHAluR CHIC HECHT
WASHINGTON. D.C.
COUWrmES:
JUDICIARY
APPROPRIATIONS
VETERANS' AFFAIRS
INTELLIGENCE
lanftd States Senate
1936 AUG n ANII'Oi WASHIH0TON. DC 20610
August 8f 1986
•ear Colleague;
The increasingly widespread availability of drugs to Americans,
and to American youths in particular, is of preeminent concern to all
of us today.
On July 29, 1986, I introduced S.2699, "The Juvenile Drug
Prevention Act," which will aid in deterring the use and abuse of our
Mation's children by drug dealers. This bill amends sections of the
Controlled oubstances Act of 1984 to provide for the imposition of
five-year mandatory prison sentences on everyone convicted of
knowingly selling drugs to a minor, or utilizing the services of a
minor in the sale or distribution of a controlled substance, or
selling drugs within 1,000 feet of an elementary, middle or high
school. Such sentences would be imposed without possibility of
parole.
The strong deterrent effect of such a penalty is obvious — if the
price which these criminals have to pay for their actions is
substantially increased, perhaps they will think twice before deciding
to use children in their illegal enterprises.
This bill also contains another provision designed to protect our
youth from drug dangers. This provision would allow the Attorney
General to make discretionary assignments of asset forfeiture funds
resulting from successful drug enforcement operations. At present,
the Attorney General is restricted to bestowing such funds upon lav/
enforcement agencies which participated in the seizure. My bill
simply increases the Attorney General's discretion, thus giving him a
broader range of antidrug options to consider -- i.e., the funding of
programs focusing on preventive education of youth and drug
rehabilitation.
This bill will enable America's parents to rest more peacefully.
There is some comfort in knowing that great efforts are being made to
arrest big-time drug dealers, but this is of less value if our young
people are uneducated as to drug prevention in communities throughout
the country where the youth addiction rate is increasing.
I would welcome your support of this legislation. If you have any
questions, or would like to co-sponsor S.2699, please contact me or
have your staff contact Deborah F. Mcllroy of my Judiciary staff (4-
8178) .
Arlen Specter
AS:dmp
WILLIAM V ROTH. Jit. DClAWARg. CHAIRMAN SUBCOMMITTSS.
T£0 S'EVgNS. ALASKA
CHARLCS McC MATHIAS. J«.
MARYLAND
WILLIAM S COHCN, MAINE
THOMAS f EAClETON,
MISSOURI
LAWTON Chiles. riORlOA
SAM NUNN. GEORGIA
WILLIAM V flOTH, JH . DELAWARE. CHAIRMAN
WARREN a. AUOMAN. NEW HAMPSHIRE, VICE CHAIRMAN
CHARLES MCC. WATHIAS. JR.. SAM NUNN. GEORGIA
MARYLAND
WILLIAM S COHEN. MAINE
LAWTON CHILES. FLORIDA
JOHN GLENN. OHIO
THAD COCHRAN. MISSISSIPPI CARL LEViN. MICHIGAN
TED STEVENS, ALASKA ALGERT GORE. Jl..
TENNESSEE
1388 AIIP O GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
«yb I 2 AM lO* ^ATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE
COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
TE ON INVESTIGATIONS
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
August 11, 1986
DANIEL f RINTEL. CHICP COUNSEL
€L£AN0RE J. NIU. CHIEF COUNSEL TO THE MWORiTT
Dear Colleague:
As you are acutely aware, our country is experiencing a drug
epidemic, particularly a cocaine epidemic. This epidemic has
been intensified by the spreading use of crack, the smokable form
of cocaine. In a hearing last month, the Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations heard testimony about the dangers of crack. We
learned from reformed users that you only need to smoke it once
to become addicted. Not only is it highly addictive, but it is
also lethal. The recent deaths of outstanding athletes Len Bias
and Don Rogers vividly demonstrated that cocaine kills.
Crack has permeated every segment of our society. It is
inexpensive, easily manufactured, and readily accessible. Crack
use has been contributed to a significant increase in violent
crimes as users become desperate to obtain this seductive drug by
any means. Despite federal and local law enforcement efforts to
contain this problem, crack continues to invade our communities.
Obviously, law enforcement cannot wage this war alone.
That is why I believe that we must reach out to the
individual. It is time to inform the people, especially our
youth, about the health hazards of crack and cocaine before they
experiment with it. To achieve this objective, I have introduced
a resolution to designate October 1986 as "Crack/Cocaine
Awareness Month". By this resolution, we encourage educators,
media and civic leaders to concentrate their efforts and dedicate
their resources to informing the public about the facts of
cocaine and crack.
I invite you to join me in sponsoring this resolution. If
you have further questions, please call Cynthia Christfield,
Staff Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, at
4-3721.
Sincerely,
William
Chairnrtf
WilliamV^ Roth, Jr.
ChairnTfln
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squarely. The meas^e ^
The End Game in Tax Reform
1 HEiT TAAXXC COONNPFRERRKEPEqS are getting close. The
remaining difference is how much to
_ rase busme^ taxes. The Senate wants to
f^se Uiem by less than does the House, while cutting
mdiwdual tM rates more. The House says the
^ and keep the bill from losing
m^y. The Senate is having to choose.
•Ine choice has been made more difficult by the
provisi^ involved. The big money item is depreciagn,
which IS also a symbol for both sides. The
Senate says its more generous depreciation rates are
-fS capital
f^ation The House says hyped depreciation rates
S ?n '^u'" has looked so
tad in the past. The houses also differ over so<alled
industry-specific provisions. The Senate bill would
P'-ov'sions important to defense contractors
wik ft wnS f ® f '"^"stries. Until last
ahS^RjnC^"^'^ "i"strate what lies
dfev notonously low. and so far as
1 ^ i^eep them that way.
Tij 's the wrong lime to imoose an
^ed burden on the nation's shaky crfdk S?ur?
They have hired special lobbyists, including fo™5
Senate majority leader Howard Baker, at a cost of
nearly talf a milLon dollars, plus the promise of a
sizable success premium" if they prevail. A huge
^ount of money, but a good investment for the
^ ® billions of dollars at stake.
h«u fil if the conferees so far have mostly
heW the banks at bay. The decision is not as easy as
either side—bankers or reformers—would make it
No one wants to squeeze the banks too hard It is
questionab e bank loans that are now propping uo
® m^iustry and much of the Third
world-1 he mam provision at issue involves bad debt
fSfr?L'V® against
these. The Treasury, which earlier proposed coming
Chairman Paul Volcker have both urged the conferees
to ease up.
But large and profitable corporations should pay a
rea^nable share of taxes, and many banks do not
that IS what reform is about, to make them pay
S!i7 V ^ ^ P'®'' mafte Ws
^k. You can t raise oil taxes when oil prices are so
low. You can t raise taxes on the defense industry
when defense costs are already so high. Just us. they
^rd^to '®®ve us alone. The conferees can't
;Dfepaitment funds from any school or coUegfS d an^J.^mversities. The regulatory
ainnot prove it has a program to prevent stud^t staggw^--8omething this admindrug
abuse. As worded. thfrSoLon If briS emphaped mother contexts,
vague; it leaves several key quesUons unanswered weU^F^^iS^^f
amcmg them the definition of a "program" awiS tl / education, as a matter of policy,
drug abuse—would a statement of ?Scy sSe? ^th as much
would medical oversight be reauirefP—and th*. £ > possible, the pnnciple thus far has been to
of "proof a SurSfwoSd to keep external conditions to a
taiy. William Bennett, propo^ such a link between been
reauirififf miiiTrinc r^f Ar.\u^» n. t .P throu^ a House, which » under severe pressure to "do
SOmemtnff" dhfttlf Hmrre i-v
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would ride the sut
that a transitway
West traffic probi*
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minutes over the 1:
Silver Spring am
stations. The trai
meat has apparen
the simple—and
expensive—alterm
press buses betwer
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most inaccurate
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ble) lists among its
the transitway at
Avenue every fiv<
rush hour, with {
traffic. That should
East-West traffic
trafiic too!
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burn on saving a 1
minutes a trip. I su
the commuters stu(
29 and others who
them what they c;
transitway!
The Post is wronj
as "a direct-mail imj
mg the issue of whet
22nd Amendment to
as a fund-raising veh
or Repeal," editorial,
Even though I favc
stantive grounds, cm
not and will not ma.
appeal on this issue.
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Republican campaign
sent out a million |i
funds and urging repe
ident Reagan to serve
I will not hold my b
lican fund-raisers try (
port for their latest
amendment. But I do
tiative reveals a bn
within the Grand Old 1
civil war.
Chess Mate
Joseph McLellan's ;
world's championship
now taking place in Lo
classic example of how
should be covered. Thi
the right mixture of hi
local color and exper
addition, they exhibit t
writing style we have I
tomed to in Mr. Mcl
reviews. Just a suggest
match is over, these ;
coliection in book form.
BENJAI
Law/Judiciary
House Panels Vote Ammo for War on Drugs
House committees completed
work Aug. 13 on a $3.75 billion package
to help the nation fight its latest
war on illegal drugs.
The Judiciary, Merchant Marine
and Fisheries, and Education and Labor
committees each approved separate
packages of anti-drug-abuse legislation
Aug. 12 and 13, while two other
committees — Post Office and Civil
Service, and Public Works — sent informal
recommendations for inclusion
in a bipartisan omnibus drug bill taking
shape under the direction of Majority
Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas.
In an effort to beat President Reagan
on the public relations front.
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., DMass.,
July 23 directed Wright to have
a bill ready for the Rules Committee
by Sept. 9. the day after the House
returns from its August recess. Full
House consideration is
scheduled for Sept, 10.
Meanwhile, Reagan
continued his own
anti-drug campaign.
Vice President George
Bush and 78 top White
House officials took
voluntary drug tests
Aug. 11 "to set an example."
Reagan look
his test Aug, 9 during a
checkup at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital.
On Aug. 14, following
two days of
meetings with Mexican
President Miguel de la
Madrid, administration
officials announced
"Operation
Alliance," which calls
for an infusion of
equipment and personnel
to patrol the border
in an effort to stem the
flow of illegal drugs.
(Mexican talkn. p.
1883)
Not to be outdone,
a bipartisan group of
House members, led by
Charles E. Schunier,
D-N.Y.p and Lynn Martin, R-llL, announced
Aug. 11 that the four major
networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN)
have agreed to undertake a three-year,
$1,5 billion advertising campaign to
educate the public about the dangers
of illegal drugs. The campaign, scheduled
to begin in October, came as a
result of a letter written by Schumer
and Martin and signed by more than
338 other House members.
Money and Politics
Wright now faces the task of compiling
the new committee recommendations,
along with those of the four
panels that marked up and reported
bills in previous weeks, into a comprehensible,
comprehensive piece of legislation.
fPreoiou.s committee action,
Weekly Report p. 1847)
As he does so. Wright must take
Omnibus Drug Proposal Highlights
fo/lowing are highlighH o( proposah by more than ball a dozen House
commiuees lor omnibus legislation to prevent and combat drug abuse:
Drug Sources. Deny trade benefits to uncooperative drug-source
nations. Earmark $10 million in foreign military aid for drug interdiction
and eradication efforts. Allow U.S. law enforcement agents to be present
when drug traffickers are apprehended in foreign nations.
Irtterdlction. Expand search and seizure powers of U.S. Customs Service
and authorize nearly $1 billion over three years to beef up Customs' air
interdiction program. Authorize an extra $300 million in fiscal 1987-88 for
Coast Guard drug detection and interdiction activities.
New Crimes. Crack down on "money laundering" transactions by
individuals, banks and credit institutions that involve cash proceeds of drug
trafficking and other crimes. Ban manufacture and sale of "designer drugs,"
near-duplicates of illegal narcotics; prohibit use of children to manufacture
or distribute drugs; bar mailing of controlled substances.
Enforcement. Authorize $100 million in grants for state and local drug
enforcement activities and $60 million for Drug Enforcement Administration
efforts. Permit state and local inspection of aircraft registration.
Stlffer Penalties. Set minimum mandatory prison sentences for the
most serious drug offenses, increase sentences for lesser crimes and impose
fines of up to $10 million for drug traffickers.
Prison Construction. Authorize $1.14 billion over three years for
construction and staffing of new federal prisons.
—By Julie Rovner
Education and Prevention. Authorize $350 million annually in grants
to schools to develop drug abuse education and prevention programs.
Authorize $180 million in fiscal 1987 for a federal Agency for Substance
Abuse Prevention.
care not to damage the bill's tenuous
bipartisan support. Wright has been
keeping in close touch with House Minority
Leader Robert H. Michel, 111.,
and members of a Michel-appointed
Republican drug task force headed by
Jerry Lewis, Calif.
'Tm very pleased with the recommendations
we've gotten so far,"
Wright said Aug. 14 after a meeting
with Michel. "And I'm very pleased
with the degree of bipartisanship
we've been able to maintain."
Wright said he would not seek a
closed rule for the bill, but would ask
the Rules Committee to allow "reasonable
opportunities to beef up or
pare down" the package.
The overriding issue threatening
the current bipartisan harmony is
money. Six committees have authorized
a total of $1.92 billion for fiscal
1987 and more than
$3.75 billion over three
years. The 1987 spending
will require a supplemental
appropriations
bill, since the
House has already
passed most of its regular
appropriations bills.
Such figures in a
time of massive budget
deficits have drawn the
wrath of a number of
Republicans who accuse
Democrats of trying
to solve the drug
problem by throwing
money at it.
"There's not any
question that a couple
of billion dollars is an
awful lot more than we
need to do an effective
job," said Lewis at an
Aug. 14 press conference
to announce the
Republican task force
position on the package.
But Wright insists
that he will not impose
an arbitrary spending
ceiling on the bill, and
that he doesn't expect
the nrice tas to coat the
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Low/Judieiory • 2
bill support.
"Drug traffickers
don't have any arbitrary
ceiling on how much
money they drain from
our economy," said
Wright. "Obviously it's
going to cost some money,
but the American public
expects no less."
And more than a few
Republicans seem to
agree. "If we can get a
handle on the problem
and come up with a good
program for $3 billion, 1
as one member would
support it," said E. Clay
Shaw Jr., Fla., whose district
has more than its
share of drug-related
problems.
Added Bill McCollum,
another Florida Republican,
"Money's not
the bottom line in this
fight. The bottom line is we have to
get tough in law enforcement and we
have to get the word out in education
in a way that's effective."
Asked where the money was going
to come from, Wright replied with a
smile; "From the same place that $300
billion for weapons comes from."
Role of Military
Another potential sticking point
is the role of the military in the drug
war. "We have a great power out there
and we spend a great deal of money on
it, and I think it's incumbent that we
use it to the maximum extent practicable,"
said Shaw.
But many members from both
parties fear that involving the military
too much in the drug war could impair
its combat readiness. Others oppose
use of the military for civilian law enforcement
within the nation's borders.
Adding to those troubles is the
fact that the Armed Services Committee,
tied up all week with the defense
authorization bill (HR 4428) on the
House floor, was unable to complete
action on its contribution to the drug
package. (Defense bill. p. 1869)
Wright said he and Michel did
not reach a firm agreement about how
to deal with the Armed Services problem,
hut one possibility being explored
was to ask the White House to prepare
a study and report back within 90
days its idea of the appropriate division
of authority between the military,
the National Guard and law enforcement
agencies.
TTie U.S. Customs Service is on the front lines
of the battle to intercept drugs being shipped
illegally into the United States.
New Prisons, Stale Aid
The most costly portion of the
drug package was approved by the Judiciary
Committee Aug. 13. The committee
July 29 had approved five
drug-related proposals, including one
(HR 5217) to make it harder for drug
dealers to "launder" their profits
through banks and other financial institutions.
(Weekly Report p. 1749)
The two new bills (HR 5393, HR
5394), approved by voice vote after a
six-hour markup, provide increased
authorizations for drug enforcement
and construction of new federal prisons,
and stronger penalties for those
convicted of drug-related offenses.
As approved by the Crime Subcommittee
Aug. 11, HR 5393 increased
the authorization for the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) by
$60 million for fiscal 1987, adding 543
new positions. It also created a new
grant program to aid state and local
drug enforcement efforts. The hill authorized
$100 million for the grant
program in fiscal 1987 and $200 million
in 1988.
The full Judiciary Committee,
not wanting to be outdone by other
committees with smaller anti-drug jurisdiction,
quickly upped the ante. By
the time its spending spree was over,
the committee had added well over $1
billion to the total price tag.
"To provide less [funding authority
than other committeesj really
makes no sense," said Chairman Peter
W. Rodino Jr., D-N.-I.
Committee Republicans
— as well as some
Democrats — expressed
concerns that the House
might be unable or unwilling
to pass such expensive
legislation, given
the fiscal constraints facing
members. But in the
end, they could not resist
the chance to attack such
longstanding problems as
overcrowded federal prisons.
Dan Lungren, RCalif.,
offered an amendment
to eliminate the
grant program and instead
use the $100 million
to beef up the number of
U.S. attorneys, who prosecute
federal drug cases,
and give the remainder to
the attorney general to
use as he sees fit in the
enforcement of drug laws.
"Our last priority should be for us
to share money we don't have with
states to do what they won't spend
their own money on," the California
Republican said.
John Bryant, D-Texas, sought a
compromise, suggesting spending $100
million on U.S. attorneys and new
prison construction without eliminating
the grant program. But when some
members said that the $69 million
Bryant designated for prison construction
was not enough to make a
dent in a system that is already more
than 47 percent overcrowded, the
committee boosted the total to $164
million — the amount the administration
originally sought for the Federal
Bureau of Prisons for fiscal 1987.
Lungren's last-ditch effort to delete
the grant program failed on a 14-
21 party-line vote.
Carlos J. Moorhead, R-Calif.,
then proposed an additional $977 million
for prison construction and salaries
for fiscal 1987 and 1988.
"I really think we're heading
down the road of, "Can you top this?' "
said Larry Smith, D-Fla. "Why don't
we just throw in another billion to
cure the acne of those not yet in
prison?" he added, suggesting that the
committee needed "to keep some semblance
of economic sanity" if the bill
was to pass the House.
But Republicans, who had made
extra funding for prison construction
a priority for the drug package,
wouldn't back down, and all of the
extra spending was added by voice
t«»<o«y(hoo p<oh>^.i*d ««>«>• >0 MrtP* Br Aug. 16, 1986—PAGE 1929
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vote. "This is a mailer of pulling our
money where our collective mouth is,"
said George W. Gekas, R-Pa.
Crime and Punishment
Debate over HR 5H94, the measure
to increase penalties for drug offenses,
split along more traditional
parly lines.
The measure imposes minimum
mandatory prison sentences of five
years for first-time "serious traffickers"
and 10 years for "major traffickers."
It increases sentences for other
offenses and imposes fines of up to
.$10 million. It also makes it a federal
crime to use children to manufacture
or distribute drugs, and imposes a new
penalty of 20 years to life imprisonment
if a death results from drug trafficking
activities.
"This sends a message to people
involved in drug trafficking that if you
get caught, you're going to go to jail
for a long time — no plea bargain, no
parole," said Crime Subcommittee
Chairman William J. Hughes, D-N.J.
But some members expressed
doubts about mandatory minimum
sentences, given the current overcrowding
in the federal prison system.
"In New York, drug traffickers doing
business on the streets in front of the
police aren't even being arrested because
there's no place to put them,"
complained John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.
"If the purpose of this is to send a
message, it's the wrong message."
Debate was surprisingly restrained
over an amendment offered
by Gekas to allow the death penalty to
be imposed on individuals who knowingly
cause the death of another individual
during the course of "a continuing
criminal enterprise."
Allowing capital punishment, argued
Gekas. is "a natural extension of
the war on drugs we are waging."
But committee Democrats, many
of whom said they generally supported
capital punishment, worried that the
amendment could end up derailing
the entire drug package.
"I can't think of a better way to
kill this hill than to lack a death penalty
onto it," said Hughes.
Gekas' amendment was ultimately
rejected 16-19, with Bryant
and Smith joining the Republicans.
On a straight party-line vote, the
committee also refused, 14-21. to
adopt a McC'ollum amendment to permit
plea bargaining after conviction in
exchange for information that could
lead to the conviction of a higher-up
in a drug organization.
Coast Guard Enforcement
The Merchant Marine Committee
Aug. 16 approved a bill (HR 5406)
authorizing $1.50 million in each of fiscal
years 1987 and 1988 for Coast
Guard drug enforcement activities.
The .$.600 million package authorizes
$162 million for operating expenses
— including the addition of
].,500 military personnel, the bulk of
whom will be used to augment shore
station crews — and $168 million for
drug interdiction equipment.
The equipment would be used
primarily to allow the Coast Guard to
carry out air surveillance operations
over the high seas. The legislation asserts
the primacy of the Coast Guard
over the Navy in carrying out drugfighting
activities, including surveillance
operations.
The hill explicitly labels the funding
package an "authorization enhancement"
— money over and above
any other amounts to be given to the
Coast Guard in fiscal 1987 and 1988.
Committee members are especially
sensitive about funding for traditional
search and rescue missions. "I,
for one, do not believe that the lives of
New England fishermen or Great
Lakes boaters should be lost because
Coast Guardsmen who should be stationed
in those areas have been called
to the Caribbean to interdict marijuana
or anything else." declared
Gerry R. Studds, D-Mass.
But committee leaders acknowledged
that the additional funds were
not tied to any specific revenue
source. Asked by Claudine Schneider,
R-R.l., how the spending would be financed,
Chairman Walter B. Jones, DN.
C.. replied, "I assume we'll continue
to spend money that we don't have."
Education Programs
The Education and I.abor Committee
Aug. 12 voted to create a .$6.50
million-per-year grant program for
schools to develop drug abuse education
and prevention programs.
By voice vote, the committee ordered
reported HR 5678, its contribution
to the omnibus drug package.
Members from both sides of the
aisle seemed to take pains to maintain
the spirit of bipartisanship encouraged
by the House Democratic and
Republican leadership. The cordiality
was in marked contrast to the partisan
sniping that had characterized the
drug legislation markups of other
House committees a week earlier.
"In war. partisan politics must
give way to political unity," said Committee
Chairman Augustus F. Hawkins,
D-Calif., the bill's sponsor.
The bill creates a grant program
to provide slate education agencies
with funds to "establish, operate and
improve" drug abuse education and
prevention programs at the elementary
and secondary school levels. The
House version of the fiscal 1987 appropriations
bill covering education
(HR 52.66) requires schools to set up
such programs or face a federal fund
cutoff. (Weekly Report p. 1771)
HR 5678 also authorizes grants to
community organizations for drug
abuse education and programs to prevent
school dropouts, and to colleges
and universities for their own drug
abuse education programs and for
training elementary and secondary
school teachers how to teach drug
abuse prevention.
As approved by the committee,
the bill:
• Allows states receiving grant
money to award funds to local educational
agencies for the development of
drug abuse education and prevention
curricula; counseling programs; drug
abuse treatment referral; in-service
training for teachers, counselors, law
enforcement officials and community
leaders; and community education
programs for parents.
• Requires the education secretary
to establish a drug education and prevention
program that includes a national
media campaign; programs involving
sports and entertainment
figures, medical professionals and former
drug users; and community education
for parents.
• Requires the education secretary
to establish a clearinghouse to collect
and disseminate information to educational
agencies on successful drug education
and prevention programs and
to provide technical assistance on the
selection and implementation of such
programs.
• Authorizes $6.50 million for each
of fiscal years 1987-89.
Among the amendments adopted
by the committee were;
• By E. Thomas Coleman, R-Mo.,
to create a National Advisory Council
on Drug Abuse Education and Prevention
to "attract and focus national attention
on drug-related problems."
• By Rod Chandler. R-Waah., to require
the secretary of labor to conduct
a two-year study on the incidence of
drug abuse in the work place and efforts
to a.ssist workers.
The only partisan skirmish concerned
another Coleman amendment
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42,000 'EXPLORERS' TO JOIN
DRUG ABUSE FIGHT
IRVING, TEXAS, Sept. 3 — The Boy Scouts of America will throw 42,000
teenagers into the national fight against drug abuse.
Members of the nation's 2,200 Explorer posts which specialize in law
enforcement career education will begin an ongoing program this fall to
present drug abuse prevention material to elementary and junior high school
students, their own peers, and adults.
The effort is being conducted in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement
Administration and Action, tne federal volunteer agency.
Day-long training sessions throughout the country drawing upon the
resources of police agencies, drug rehabilitation counselors, and others will
prepare the teenagers who range in age from 14 through 20, for programs to be
presented before school and conmunity groups. A BSA-produced video tape also
will be made available as will a drug abuse prevention guidebook.
MORE
DRUG ABUSE FIGHT - 2
The challenge to join the war on drugs was originally accepted by law
enforcement Explorers in July at their biennial national convention held in
Seattle.
Keynoting that anti-drug rally were John C. Lawn, acting administrator of
the Drug Enforcement Administration; Thomas Gleaton, MD, executive director of
PRIDE (Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education); and Donna Alvarado,
director of Action, a federal comnunity-coordinating agency. Other
participants ranged from Los Angeles Rams' Mike Wilshire, Ralph Sampson of the
Houston Rockets, Dave Brown, Seattle Seahawks, and Marty Barrett, of the
Boston Red Sox, to country singer Lee Greenwood and TV actress Lauri Hendler,
of "Gimme a Break."
Exploring leaders noted that a recent survey found that 63 percent of the
nation's high school students have tried an illicit drug. "Statistics show
the trends across the population as a whole, but the pain of the consequences
in individual families is what pushes us to fight this problem until i t is
conquered."
Coordinating the program on behalf of the BSA is Brian D. Archimbaud,
national director of law enforcement Exploring, and law enforcement youth
chairman Kathleen C. (K. C.) Carr, of Chesterfield, VA. Linell Broecker, a
public affairs executive with the Drug Enforcement Acbninistration, represents
that agency as does Angie Hammock with Action.
A Drug Abuse Prevention Proficiency Award will be made available to
Explorers who complete the required training session, become involved in drug
abuse prevention activities, and donate at least 50 hours of their time to the
program.
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DRUG ABUSE FIGHT - 3
The first of these awards, however, will go to a non-Explorer who has long
crusaded against drug abuse. Mrs. Nancy Reagan is scheduled to receive the
citation at the White House September 12. In her continuing championship of
the substance abuse fight she called a year ago upon the nation's Boy Scouts
to "say no to drugs" when she spoke before 32,000 of them at the National
Scout Jamboree in Virginia.
A second award, given by the Drug Enforcement Administration since 1981,
recognizes the efforts of Explorer post that conduct outstanding drug abuse
programs.
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An Election-Year Cause Celebre:
Omnibus Anti-Drug Package
Ready for House Floor Action
Responding to the pressing political
imperative of the summer of '86,
the House plans to put aside budget
matters Sept. 10 and pass a bipartisan
omnibus drug bill that would authorize
more than $3 billion in new spending
to combat drug abuse.
The legislation, as yet unnumbered,
is a compilation of proposals
from 12 standing committees aimed at
stemming the flow of illegal drugs into
the United States, stepping up enforcement
of drug laws, increasing
penalties for narcotics trafficking and
improving drug abuse education, prevention
and treatment prc^rams.
(Weekly Report p. 1928)
The measure, compiled under the
direction of Majority Leader Jim
Wright, D-Texas, with help from Minority
Leader Robert H. Michel, RIII.,
is scheduled to come before the
Rules Committee Sept. 9.
Cost No Object?
The drug abuse issue has been
gaining political momentum all summer,
spurred by a wave of publicity in
the wake of the cocaine-related deaths
of two popular athletes. Members expect
the bill to sail through the House,
despite its steep price tag.
"I'd say roar through is more like
it," predicted Rep. Glenn English, DOkla.,
who authored a number of the
omnibus bill's provisions.
President Reagan, with an assist
from his wife, Nancy, plans a nationally
televised speech on the drug problem
Sept. 14. But Reagan has been
reluctant, thus far, to seek major new
federal expenditures for an anti-drug
crusade.
A New York Times/CBS News
poll released Sept. 2 showed that twothirds
of those responding were willing
to pay more taxes to jail drug sellers.
English said he did not think
House members would be put off by
the cost of the omnibus legislation.
—By Julie Rovner
"1 think what we're going to be
facing on the floor is not members
wanting to cut out items, but members
wanting to add items," he said.
Although Democratic leaders
seized the initiative on the drive for
anti-drug legislation, they have been
careful to pull GOP members along.
"It does appear that the majority
is going to deliver on its promise to
give us a bipartisan bill." said E. Clay
Shaw Jr., R-Fla.
Like English, Shaw has long labored
on the drug problem in relative
obscurity. With the issue suddenly
popular, he has served on the Republican
task force set up to oversee formulation
of the omnibus bill. (English.
Shaw profiles, p. 2069)
Committee Action
Seven House committees — Foreign
Affairs, Government Operations,
Energy and Commerce, Ways and
Means, Education and Labor, Judiciary,
and Merchant Marine — reported
legislation in early August for
inclusion in the drug package.
Four others — Armed Services,
Interior, Post Office and Civil Service,
and Public Works — submitted titles
for the bill without formal markups.
The Banking Committee's main contribution,
legislation (HR 5176) to
crack down on drug traffickers who
"launder" illegal profits through financial
institutions, was approved in
late July. (Weekly Report p. 1719)
GOP Amendments Likely
Although key House Republicans
have expressed support for the omnibus
drug bill, they reserve the right to
try to "improve" it on the floor.
"Just because the issue is drugs
doesn't mean everyone's going to
agree on the best way to solve the
problem," said Johanna Schneider,
press secretary to Minority Leader
Michel. "There should be some debate
on what is the best way to solve the
problem," she said.
Schneider said the Republicans
would seek a rule allowing them to
offer between eight and 15 amendments.
Proposals range from requiring
drug testing for federal employees
with access to secret information to
authorizing capital punishment for
certain drug traffickers.
Republicans also plan to offer
amendments to modify the so-called
"exclusionary rule," which prevents
evidence gathered in illegal searches
from being used in court. And they
want to expand the role of the military
i.". the drug war.
The bill contains a bare-bones title
from the Armed Services Committee
that authorizes $213 million for
purchase of advanced radar and other
drug-detection hardware, but the
committee was unable to complete a
markup that began Aug. 12 because of
House floor action on the defense authorization
bill (HR 4428). (Weekly
Report p. 1869)
Senate Outlook Uncertain
What will happen when the bill
reaches the Senate remains unclear.
"Nothing has jelled here yet,"
said an aide to Majority Leader Robert
Dole, R-Kan.
But Senate Democrats are busy
trying to fashion their own omnibus
package. A spokesman for Lawton
Chiles, D-Fla., one of the leaders of a
newly formed Democratic Working
Group on Substance and Narcotics
Abuse, said the group hoped to have
its package ready for introduction the
week of Sept. 8. While details of the
package have not yet been worked out,
it, like the House bill, would seek to
step up interdiction and eradication
efforts and improve drug enforcement,
education, research and rehabilitation.
Although time is running out on
the 99th Congress, supporters of the
omnibus House legislation say they
are confident that something will find
its way to the president's desk before
adjournment.
"You can't exclude politics altogether
on a package like this," said
English, noting that public opinion
polls show that Americans find the
drug problem one of the most serious
facing the nation today. "That being
the case, 1 think members might find
the time to get a package like this
passed." •
PAGE 2068—Sept. 6, 1986 CwV '«• ,
The Pentagon's Drug Wars
The Defense Department's expanding role in the war on drugs poses questions of civil
liberties as well as whether the new mission helps or hurts military readiness.
BY DAVID C. MORRISON
ToSen, Alfonse M. D'Amato, R-N.Y.,
"drug traffickers pose a threat as
great as, if not greater than, any other this
nation faces." At an Aug. 15 press conference
called to announce the introduction
of the National Drug Interdiction Improvement
Act, D'Amato added, "If the
drug boats and planes were carrying
bombs across our borden, our Defense
Department would be mobilized to stop
them."
D'Amato's message has become a familiar
one in Washington over the past
few months. The emotionally compelling,
yet politically safe, issue of drug abuse—
propelled into the headlines recently by
the cocaine overdose deaths of several
sports stars and the advent of a potent
cocaine derivative, crack,—has set into
motion an election-year bandwagon of
seemingly inexorable momentum.
That bandwagon has also become a
legislative steamroller. No longer is there
any question that Congress will pass a
big-ticket antidrug bill before its early
October adjournment. All that remains to
be decided is what elements the final
package will incorporate from the many
proposals that Congress and the Reagan
Administration arc now generating.
D'Amato's martial tone, too, has become
a familiar one, both on Capitol Hill
and in the White House. Last April, after
a year of interagency study. President
Reagan signed a secret directive that for
the first time defined drug trafficking as
a threat to national security. The phrase
"war on drugs," once tittle more than an
overworked rhetorical device, has taken
on the ring of literal description as the
Pentagon's involvement in the drug interdiction
campaign steadily grows.
The militarization of the antidrug effort
has been an evolutionary process,
beginning with Congress's 1981 amending
of the century-old Posse Comiiatus
Act, which forbids military enforcement
of civilian laws, to allow the Pentagon to
offer indirect support to the civilian agencies
charged with drug interdiction. In
mid-July, that military involvement deepened
when the Administration dispatched
Army helicopters to transport
Bolivian antidrug squads to far-flung cocaine
processing lalMratories.
Legislation unsuccessfully proposed in
the past and slated to come up for consideration
again this year in a more radical
form would go even further, giving military
personnel direct authority to bust
drug traffickers while maintaining an air
and sea blockade of the United States'
southern borders to keep out illegal
drugs. (See box, p. 2106.)
The degree to which Congress, in its
fervor to stem the drug traffic, might
fundamentally alter the military's traditional
role as a defender solely against
external military threats is only one of the
issues raised by the Pentagon's expanding
role in the war on drugs—albeit the most
far-reaching one. Others are whether the
Pentagon's new antidrug mission helps or
hurts military readiness and who should
pay for the escalating war on drugs
among the many agencies—the Justice,
Transportation, Treasury and Defense
Departments—that have a piece of the
counter-narcotics action.
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The Navy's E-2C Hawkeye aerial surveillance planes report suspicious sightings to civilian drug interdiction agencies.
2104 NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/6/86
The latter question is no minor matter
in a year in which Congress will be lucky
not to bump its head on the deficit ceiling
imposed by the Balanced Budget Act.
"Providing the money to carry out the
mandates of this bill will not be easy in
these times of unprecedented budget deficits."
acknowledged Sen. Dennis E>e-
Concini, D-Ariz., who is a principal cosponsor
of the new Senate
antidrug measure. "But the bottom
line is that we must treat
illegal drugs as a national security
threat to the United States
and act accordingly."
Read that reference to national
security as a cue that the
Defense Department will be
asked to pick up much of the
tab. Of the S1.4 billion earmarked
in the Senate's new
drug bill (S 2764), which will be
debated shortly after Congress
returns from recess on Sept. 8,
$887 million would come from
the defense budget. The
House's omnibus drug bill, elements
of which have been reported
out by U separate committees
but which has not been
put in final form, could be even
more expensive than its counterpart
bill in the Senate. While
the House Armed Services
Committee's portion of that
package provisionally earmarks
only S213 million specifically
for Defense Department equipment,
the Pentagon could end
up footing a larger share of the
total cost.
Given its druthers, a Pentagon
facing cuts as deep as S34
billion in a S320 billion national
defense budget request, would
naturally order its fiscal priorities
somewhat differently from
those of an election-year Congress. "We
call it a feeding frenzy, with the Defense
Department's budget as the bait," Air
Force Col. Harvey G. Pothier, acting
director of the Pentagon's Task Force on
Drug Enforcement, said of the legislative
antidrug offensive. After serving as acting
director in July and August, Pothier
resumed his position as deputy director
after a higher-ranking general officer was
named to head the task force.
PENTAGON EFFORTS
Some Members might argue that
Pothier's comment is indicative of the
Pentagon's fundamental reluctance to
march to the front lines of the war on
drugs. Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla., for
instance, a longtime crusader on the
antidrug front, complained that while
some officials have been cooperative,
pushing the Pentagon to play a larger
antidrug role "has been a constant battle
since 1981." Whatever measures Congress
ends up approving, the Pentagon
will have no choice but to comply, he
stressed. "That's been a point that some
people in the [Defense Department] have
been a little slow to recognize."
During a July 30 hearing on the issue
Air Force CoL Harvey G. Pothier
He worries about the fiscal burden on the Pentagon.
by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
on Defense, at which Pothier
was a witness, chairman Ted Stevens, RAlaska,
accused the services of "footdragging"
on drug interdiction while
"hiding" behind Posse Comitatus Act restrictions.
Pothier, like other defense officials, is
concerned about how much of the fiscal
burden of the escalating war on drugs the
Pentagon might have to bear, but he
denied that the department is a shirker in
that war.
"Here we have over 100 years of very
clear precise direction that we are not to
get involved in the enforcement of U.S.
laws, [then) along comes 1981 and a new
law gets passed," he said. "Congress likes
quick solutions [and] wanted the military
to go out and imm^iately do what was
expected of them. That takes time, so it
may have created a perception of the
military dragging its feet. Such was not
the case, it was simply that we needed
this time to become familiar with what
was expected of us."
As evidence of the PenUgon's growing
commitment to its new mission, Pothier
cited the 3,000 sorties, totaling more than
10,000 flight hours, flown by more than
10 kinds of military aircraft in
support of drug interdiction
during fiscal 1985. Those aircraft
include Army UH-60
Blackhawk helicopters. Navy
E-2C Hawkeye aerial surveillance
aircraft. Marine Corps
OV-IO Bronco counterinsurgency
planes and even Air
Force B-52 bombers flying sealane
patrol missions. Those BS2s
do not rain bombs on suspected
smugglers. Instead, like
the other military aircraft, they
report suspicious sightings to civilian
agencies.
Treasury's Customs Service
attends the quarterly scheduling
conferences at Tinker Air
Force Base near Oklahoma City
for the Air Force's E-3C Sentry
Airborne Warning and Control
System (AWACS) radar aircraft
so that it can capitalize on
data handed off by the
AWACS, which are uniquely
equipped to detect low-flying
smugger aircraft trying to hide
in the clutter of oil-rig helicopter
traffic along the Gulf Coast.
High-flying U-2 spy planes
have also collected aerial photographs
for drug enforcement
i intelligence analysts. Two Flor-
M ida-based aerostats—tethered
blimps hung with powerful radars—
channel early-warning
data on low-flying aircraft to
the Customs Service for drug interdiction
purposes, as well as to the Air Force and
Navy for purely military consumption.
The Defense Department has also
given civilian drug enforcement agencies
more than Sill million in equipment to
date, including aircraft, assorted nightvision
and radar systems and communications
encryption devices. Last year,
Pothier said, the department spent about
S14 million of its operations and maintenance
budget supporting the drug enforcement
effort, and has spent S22 million
so far in fiscal 1986, a fourfold
increase over the 1982 level.
The military's antidrug flcid operations
have ranged over the hemisphere.
Since 1983, under Operation BAT—
short for Bahamas and Turks—two Air
Force UH-IN special-operations helicopters
have been kept on hand to help
NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/6/86 2 1 05
Saddling Up for the War on Drugs
Rep. Charles E. Bennett, DFla.,
whose eldest son overdosed
on Valium in 1977, believes the
war on drugs should be Just
that: a no-holds-barred battle to
the finish. No surprise then that
he has long sought to push the
armed forces to the front lines
of the struggle by authorizing
them to arrest drug traffickers,
a task now entrusted solely to
civilian agencies.
Standing in Bennett's way,
among other institutional obstacles,
is an 1878 law, little debated
until this decade, called
the Posse Comitatus Act. Latin
for "power of the county,"
posse comitatus denotes the
right of authorities to call upon
the citizenry to help enforce the
law—a legal concept most of us
have seen in action only in
countless Westerns where a ragtag
"posse" saddles up to pursue
bank robbers. The Posse
Comitatus Act simply asserted
the illegality of using federal
troops as a posse.
Bennett finds that 19th-century
law badly outdated. The
drug problem "is obviously
such a desperate, terrible thing
that it has to have courageous,
manly responses," he said in an
interview. "We should not get hung up on something like
the Posse Comitatus law that was passed to protect the Ku
Klux Klan."
Not everyone agrees that the statute is but a vestigial
legacy of post-Civil War turmoil. According to University
of Pittsburgh Law School professor Jules Lobet, who is also
an associate of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Posse
Comitatus was "an anti-Reconstructionist act to help the
South get the federal military off their backs," but it is still
"a good law."
While they are not explicitly stipulated in the Constitution,
Lobel said, the basic principles underpinning the
Posse Comitatus Act can be found in the "flavor" of that
document. In a similar vein. Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger stressed in a 1972 Supreme Court opinion the
"traditional and strong resistance of Americans to any
military intrusion into civilian affairs." This tradition,
Burger wrote, "has deep roots in our history and found
early expression, for example, in the 3rd Amendment's
explicit prohibition against quartering soldiers in private
homes without consent and in the constitutional provisions
for civilian control of the military."
The Posse Comitatus Act was first proposed during
debate on the 1878 Army appropriation bill, when Democrats
decried interference by federal troops in southern
elections during the postwar occupation. Resistance to
Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fta.
Troops should be allowed to enforce the law.
prohibiting military enforcement
of civilian law, ironically,
largely centered on concern
about its impact on interdiction
of the illegal drug of choice of
that day: moonshine whiskey.
"If you attempt to seize an illicit
distillery," argued Sen.
James G. Blaine, R-Maine, in a
speech opposing the bill, and
"when you call the posse comilaius
they are on the side of the
illicit distiller, what will you do
then?"
The Democrats prevailed,
putting the military out of the
law enforcement business, at
least until 1957, when another
crisis in the South prompted the
first exception to the Posse Comitatus
Act in almost a century
of observance. After Arkansas
Gov. Orval Faubus ordered the
National Guard to bar nine
black students from entering
the all-white Central High
School in Little Rock, President
I Eisenhower reluctantly federal-
" ized the Arkansas National
^ Guard and dispatched troops
I from the lOlst Airborne Divi-
£ sion to enforce federal desegregation
statutes.
Ordinarily controlled by slate
governors, National Guard
troops are not subject to Posse Comitatus restrictions.
Consequently, their frequent use during the disturbances of
the 1960s was not prohibited. More than 20 states regularly
use the National Guard today in drug enforcement operations.
The most significant amendment to the act was approved
in 1981, after Bennett unsuccessfully introduced legislation
that would have authorized the E>efense Department to
arrest drug traffickers outside of U.S. territory. Instead,
Congress allowed the department to support drug interdiction
indirectly by providing intelligence, equipment and
training to civilian agencies.
"There's no reason why U.S. government troops should
not be allowed to enforce the laws of the United States,"
insisted Bennett, whose 1981 measure passed the House
when reintroduced last year but ran into a Senate stonewall.
In fact, he said, troops "should have arrest powers
everywhere," not just outside of U.S. territory, "but I just
don't think Congress would pass that."
Whether Congress, in fact, is willing to authorize so
dramatic an escalation in today's politically charged war on
drugs will be learned on Sept. 10, when the House votes on
a measure sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.,
that would expand on the ^nnett proposal by allowing
troops to arrest drug smugglers on U.S. territory provided
that they are in "hot pursuit."
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Bahamian officials interdict drug shipments
staged out of those heavily trafficked
islands. In another continuing operation,
Green Beret teams deployed In
Latin America have reportedly trained
local paramilitary organizations in
search-and-destroy antidrug techniques.
The military has also provided sea and
air support to the protracted Operation
Hat Trick interagency drug interdiction
campaigns conducted during each of the
past two years along the Caribbean sealanes.
According to the Navy, Hat Trick
II, which ended last February, resulted in
more than 1,300 arrests and seizure of
almost 400 tons of illegal drugs. Operation
Blast Furnace—in which six Army
Blackhawk helicopters, supported by 160
troops, are carrying Bolivian agents to
cocaine processing centers—is still under
way and may be extended beyond its
previously planned mid-September termination
date.
On the Arizona-Mexico border, the
Army has been running two programs,
code-named Hawkcye and Groundhog, in
which trainees learning how to operate
OV-l D Mohawk observation aircraft and
ground surveillance radars funnel any
useful data they collect to the Border
Patrol and the Customs Service.
While Hawkeye and Groundhog are
designated as training exercises that offer
ancillary benehts to the drug interdiction
effort. Pentagon testimony on
how other counter-narcotics field operations
mesh with its peacetime training
and wartime readiness requirements
has been mixed. Variances in
these assessments seem to depend on
the circumstances at hand.
Last year, for instance, as the
House prepared to vote on a bill that
would empower the military to bust
drug traffickers. Defense Secretary
Caspar W. Weinberger, who opposed
the legislation, argued in a letter to the
Armed Services Committee that "our
forces must be prepared to counter the
destructive power of modern weaponry.
Interdiction of the small boats
and aircraft typically used by drug
smugglers would not provide the realistic
training needed to prepare most
units to counter hostile military
forces."
In a recent interview, however, ^
Pothier noted that while the Pentagon
is required to seek reimbursement
from the "customer" when interagency
support is given that affords no
training value, the Defense Department
has sought no reimbursement for 98 per
cent of its drug interdiction activities.
Referring to the UH-IN special forces
helicopters that operate out of the Bahamas,
Pothier asked: "What better training
value than to operate at night over
water with little or no (navigation] aids,
using night-vision goggles? That's what
special ops helo guys do."
That also goes for the helicopters now
flying Blast Furnace missions in Bolivia,
Pothier added. "To operate far displaced
from normal supply distribution points
over topography they are not familiar
with, talk about the end of the logistical
tail," he said. "What greater training for
low-intensity conflict?"
The very fact that the Army wagged a
huge and quite obvious logistical tail.in
getting to Bolivia, however, and that word
of the raids leaked out long before they
were launched, have led some analysts to
wonder whether the U.S. military's innate
operational gigantism will hamstring
it in launching lightning raids against
drug operators, who often have excellent
intelligence and mobility.
To keep four Blackhawks in the field,
the Army needed to have six helicopters
on hand to cover for possible breakdowns.
To support the six helicopters, it needed
160 troops to carry out maintenance, security,
kitchen duty and other tasks. And
to transport the Blackhawks, it needed a
huge Air Force C-5 Galaxy airlifter. As
Army Gen. John R. Galvin, chief of the
Panama-based Southern Command, acknowledged
during an Aug. 14 press conference,
"You can't put a C-5 into Santa
Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla.
Femagon cooperation has been reluctant.
Cruz [Bolivia] and pretend that it was a
Piper Cub."
Pothier, however, argued that "the fact
that the C-5 arrived and was very visible
probably affected only the first day's operation."
Even if the Blackhawks had
come in unheralded, once they flew a
mission, he said, "the word would have
spread like wildfire throughout the drug
community." Despite the early tipoff and
some much-publicized snarls. Blast Furnace
has been officially rated a success.
Galvin professed himself pleased that of
the 25 missions the Army has flown with
Bolivian agents, a fourth have resulted in
the seizure of cocaine processing equipment.
According to Cornelius Dougherty,
a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), the Justice Department
agency that is running Blast
Furnace, the military has done "a hell of
a job" in Bolivia, where the price of coca
leaf has plummeted thanks to disrupted
demand, a market fluctuation the DEA
hopes will discourage coca planters.
Asked whether the military planned to
work with the DEA elsewhere in a similar
operation, Pothier would say only that "if
the need arises, we'll do our b«t to respond.
We're not the point of the spear on
this thing."
WHO PAYS?
One drug interdiction program on
which the Pentagon has taken some heat
from Congress is the SI 5 million measure
passed last year to create 100 five-member
Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement
Teams (TACLETs). The teams embark
on Navy ships to carry out the drug
busts that Navy personnel are currently
prevented by law from performing.
Several Members, most vocally
D'Amato and Stevens, charge that the
teams have been underused and complain
that the Navy did not request
another S15 million in fiscal 1987 for
the program. "If it means stopping
exercises in the North Pacific, then
that's what we want," Stevens
snapped at Pentagon witnesses during
a July 30 hearing. "We want these
naval assets used in the war on drugs."
Pothier responded in an interview
that the program has gotten off to a
slow start only because it takes nine
months to train TACLET personnel in
law enforcement practices to the point
that "you trust them to go out and use
a gun." The Navy has offered 344
"ship steaming days" this year to the
Coast Guard, which has availed itself
of only 91, in part because it has fully
trained only 55 TACLET personnel of
the 300 that have so far been recruited.
The Navy did not request
additional funds for fiscal 1987,
Pothier said, because last year's
appropriations language "was very specific;
it said S15 million for fiscal 1986,
not an ad nauseam requirement."
Coast Guard chief Adm. Paul A. Yost
told Stevens's subcommittee that because
of the ebb and flow of Navy fleet
operations and the short transit times of
its ships through drug interdiction areas.
NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/6/86 2107
all 500 of the designated
TACLET personnel, even when
trained, probably "cannot be
used productively aboard Navy
ships."
Nonetheless, in approving
$300 million in Defense Department
funds on Aug. 6 to beef up
the Coast Guard's defense capabilities,
the Senate earmarked
another $15 million for
the TACLET program and ordered
that 500 Coast Guard
drug agents be assigned to
Navy ships each year. The brief
debate on the money bill for the
Coast Guard, which operates
under the aegis of the Transportation
Department in peacetime,
was marked by misgivings,
especially on the part of
Armed Services Committee
members, over which department's
account the funds
should be drawn from.
"In the future, we are going
to have to look to the Department
of Transportation to fund
this adequately," contended
Sen. Sam Nunn of Geo^a, the
Armed Services Committee's
ranking Democrat, "because
the Navy budget is going to be under
more squeeze, in my opinion, in the coming
years, than the Coast Guard budget."
A similar, if more protracted debate
was played out the next day when the
Senate considered DeConcini's bill to
spend $295 million in defense funds on
drug interdiction equipment to be transferred
to the Customs Service, including
four Hawkeye radar surveillance planes,
three radar aerostats and four P-3 Orions
specially modihed with the huge APS-
138 radar saucer carried by advanced
versions of the Hawkeye. Those would
replace the Orions that Customs currently
operates, which carry far less capable
radars taken from F-15 fighters.
"We are broke," complained Senate
Armed Services Committee chairman
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. "1 would love
to do it. But we cannot even buy those
aircraft for the Air Force or the Navy or
the Army, let alone for the very important
task of drug interdiction." DeConcini
retorted that "if we are willing to
spend over $3 billion on a Strategic Defense
Initiative {"Star Wars" antimissile
research program] that might not work,
then we should be able to find $295
million for a program that will."
DeConcini prevailed, but only after
agreeing to knock out the modified Orions.
The Lockheed Corp., contractor for
the submarin^hunting Orions, has for
several years been looking for someone
willing to pay for fitting the P-3 with the
Rejk Don Edwards, D-Calif.
Troops shouia be called out only in special cases.
APS-138 radar, which would make it
competitive with the Boeing Co.'s
AWACS and Great Britain's Nimrod.
Both the Navy and the National Drug
Enforcement Policy Board, chaired by
Attorney General l^win Meese III, have
strongly opposed Lockheed's efforts, supported
by several Members, to accomplish
its marketing aims by grace of the
drug interdiction program. With the Senate
vote, the issue appears closed, and
Customs will have to make do with E-
2Cs.
The $212 million equipment package
the Senate finally approved on Aug. 7,
which wilt be counted toward the $1.4
billion drug bill yet to be debated, is
similar in most respects to proposals that
the Meese drug board and the House
Armed Services Committee recently advanced.
English, charged with crafting
the defense portion of the House omnibus
drug bill, submitted a $440 million package
to the committee shortly before Congress
began its summer vacation. His
plan included the four modified P-3s,
three radar-equipped C-I30s for U.S.Mexico
border operations and two Panama-
based AC-130 unarmed gunships
carrying classified surveillance gear.
The committee whittled the cost of the
English package down to $213 million,
mostly by scrubbing the P-3s, the C-I30s
and the AC-l30s. The AC-130s, a committee
aide said, seemed more likely to
serve general military purposes in Central
America than the drug campaign
in particular, and so did
not belong in the omnibus drug
bill. Additionally, the various
proposals agree, as many as
seven new aerostats will be deployed,
forming a picket line of
radar blimps across the southem
border all the way out to the
Bahamas, and six Air Force
special operations airlift helicopters
will be moved to a base
closer to the Mexican border to
aid in apprehending drug smugglers.
PENTAGON OVERLOAD?
In an interview about his proposed
$440 million Pentagonfinanced
antidrug package,
English said that many defense
officials looked upon the department's
escalating fiscal and
operational role in the war on
drugs as a drain on funds and
resources. But, he noted, some
Members "want to make very
extreme demands on (the department]
, and this makes them
more cooperative than they
would be otherwise."
If Congress is meting out carrots
and sticks to secure the Pentagon's
cooperation, the biggest stick on the Hill,
without doubt, is a bill (HR 5381) that
House Armed Services Committee member
Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has sponsored.
It would order the President to
"deploy equipment and personnel of the
Armed Forces sufficient to halt the unlawful
penetration of United States borders
by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics."
These troops would be directed to
"locate, pursue, and seize such vessels
and aircraft and to arrest their crews."
Military busts could be made even on
U.S. territory, provided it was a case of
hot pursuit. Moreover, the military would
be given only 45 days after enactment of
the bill to "substantially" halt all drug
traffic across U.S. borders.
"Employing the military in this role is
the bold step we need in a drug war that
simply hasn't been sufficient to get drugs
out of America," Hunter said. "We've
been trying to fight this critical battle
with our hands tied behind our back. It's
time to unleash an all-out offensive
against drug trafficken."
Hunter's all-out oH'ensive has gained
surprising support in (he House, with 42
co-sponson, including the Armed Services
Committee's ranking Republican,
William L. Dickinson of Alabama. It is
considerably less popular, however, on
the other side of the Potomac. "We're not
[the Pentagon's] favorite people right
now," a Hunter aide conceded.
2108 NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/6/86
LogUtically, the implications
of the bill are mind-boggling.
According to the Federal Aviation
Administration, there were
88,000 incursions of all kinds
into U.S. airspace last year by
small, low-flying aircraft. Yet
the Air Force has only 2S0 aircraft
dedicated to continental
air defense. "With 88,000 incursions
over 365 days,"
Pothier said, "if you give the
military that charge, to become
the enforcers of air interdiction,
we would have to intercept
them all." He termed this "an
impossible task."
Similarly, he noted, 177,000
sea-going l^ts are registered in
the United States, which has
thousands of miles of craggy
coastline. What the bill "is e^
fectively suggesting is a naval
blockade," he said. "How is
that going to play with John Q.
Public?"
To seal off the 2,000-mile
border. Army officials say, they
would need to divert up to 70
battalioits, or roughly a third of
their total forces.
Reflecting on the Bolivian
operation, Pothier said: 'The department's
view is that as good sound military
strategy, to maximize your effectiveness,
you go to the source. You don't try to
interdict along the U.S. border, [where]
the dnigger has all of the advantages.
You go to the source, where he or she has
all of the disadvantages."
The provision in the Hunter bill that
would allow the military to make arrests
also raises a host of legal and operational
issues, especially civil liberties concerns
stemming from the Posse Comitatus Act.
"Some of the recent practices of the
Defense Department with regard to Bolivia
and elsewhere don't raise Posse Comitatus
issues and are not things that we
are actively pursuing," said Barry W.
Lynn, legislative counsel for the American
Civil Liberties Union. But "this notion
that everything should be jettisoned,
that we should let the paratroopers go
into Harlem and clean up the drug traffic,
is a pretty frightening prospect."
Rep. E>on Edwards, D-Calif., a former
FBI agent and chairman of the Judiciary
Committee's Civil and Constitutional
Rights Subcommittee, agreed. Military
forces "should be called out only under
very special circumstances," he said.
"But here we are talking about day after
day, week after week, in drug interdiction."
A similar proposal was subjected to a
lengthy House debate last year when
Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla., chairSen.
Demis DcCuiciid, D-Ariz.
Illegal drugs are a threat to national security.
man of the Armed Services Sea Power
and Strategic and Critical Materials Subcommittee,
reintroduced a bill that failed
to pass in 1981 allowing naval forces to
arrest drug smugglers in international waters.
One of the many objections Weinberger
raised in a lengthy letter to House
Armed Services Committee chairman
Les Aspin, D-Wis., was that "our commanders
and their staffs frequently
would spend extensive time in court"
testifying in narcotics cases, which would
hurt military readiness.
Weinberger also protested that "use of
the military for these functions would
require a heavy training investment in
civilian law enforcement techniques,"
cutting into the time available for purely
military training. Rep. Tommy F. Robinson,
D-Ark., in fact, suggested during the
House debate that students at the Naval
Academy and naval training centers be
required to take 200 or more hours of
instruction in criminal procedure and
then "continue to receive on-the-job training
to keep them up to date on all the
Supreme Court rulings."
An amendment Robinson proposed to
that effect was voted down, as was a
substitute amendment English introduced
calling for a Pentagon study comparing
the Bennett plan with an expanded
TACLET program. But the Bennett proposal
was approved by a resounding 364-
31 vote. The measure later met defeat in
conference with the Senate, however, and
the 500-agent TACLET program
was instituted in its stead.
Bennett, a co-sponsor of the
Hunter proposal, said he still
thinks that the military should
have drug bust authority and
dismissed the [>efense Department's
objections. "It will make
them more ready, not less," he
argued. "Rather than just deterring
a future war, we would
be fighting a war that already
exists." Commanden need not
be tied up in court after making
arrests, he continued, because
they "could assign an able noncom
to carry it out."
Other congressional proponents
of an aggressive war on
drugs, however, including English
and DeConcini, would
rather not go that far. "That
may become necessary," DeConcini
said, "but I don't think J that we're there yet in the war
" on drugs to abrogate the Posse i Comitatus Act." I The DEA also has reservaiiS
tions about the idea. "We think
the way that [the military is]
being utilized now—for surveillance,
transportation and intelligence
purposes—is sufficient," Dougherty
said. "We don't want them to have
actual hands-on arrest authority; that
would not be useful."
Pothier reiterated the drawbacks that
Weinberger enumerated last year and
cited another: The illegal drug trade, valued
by the President's Commission on
Organized Crime last March at $27 billion-
SllO billion a year, tends to corrupt
individuals in every institution that comes
into contact with it, including the military.
Two years ago, for instance, the
president of Colombia had to withdraw
an entire army group from the field because
of its increasing complicity with
drug traffickers.
There is no guarantee that the U.S.
miliury will necessarily prove any more
resistant. A high-level informant recently
testified that "the AWACS schedules
were more accurate in South America
than they were in Oklahoma City,"
Pothier said. "This is not to suggest that
military people made the information
available, bemuse civilians had access to
a lot of the data. But that's another reason
that we're concerned about this larger
role that's being suggested on the Hill.
"If one agrees with the wisdom of the
Posse Comitatus Act, then we think there
is a role for us, it's proper and it's a role
we're now playing," he continued.
"We're very proactive in that regard,
[but] we're very reticent to become enforcers
of civilian laws." •
NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/6/86 2109
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lO^niYM Na281 ^•^rPtf.SEmMBER 12.
oti^Votes
Le^slatioii
Measure ^uld Allow
Use of Death I^nalty,
Military Interdiction
By Bdntd Walek
ayvburvnOT
. The Houa6 overwbelmm^ ap-
^ proved a sweepag Botidrag biS la^
r. olgbi after voting to aDcmr impoai'
'. tiooofthadeatfaptaiJtrifidnig^
\ latod iwnder caaaa aad to
U'^ Dute^ ftvceo in drug ix^*
effbrta iipog the countty's
oMfta aod bonlen.
. ^ Tbe vote oo finaJ passage was
^ to I6k to indkatioa <A the
' atroog forces prcpelUng
CoagrBsa toward sdiat lawmakecs
. fepwtediy described as a dedarw*
'. tfoo of Nor on drugs.*
Tbe handful of oppoAenCs to pa^
sags was made 9 ^ liberal Demooais,
byiuding several members
, ol the Congresfional Blad; Caucus,
who argoed that socds proviaiocis of
tbe biO would cany a uikmal an-
. ddrug crusade to rirm
There were coofbctiag estimates
the cost of tbe anibitfo^ pr>
gram, but in Its final form the
House hm aitflu'TOes mere than $2
Ulfoo Id afltidrug activUies next
aod a total (d more than $4
bUlioD over tbe next three years.
However, while tbe measure autho
rbee these amouata, ucplemenla'
tioo is cootingent 00 Senate pasmge
of similar legialatioa and enactment
of appropriationa blDs.
Before approving the measure,
tbe House also boosted the l^'s
^^OQginal level by more
tiiaa SI bilUoo end voted to change
>;]^'lecluaioiiary rule" so that some
. fflegally obcamed endcacf could be
used in court
The cofitroversial provisions,
added yesterday as amendments to
ftha drug legislation, may face
: strong opposition in the Seoate. but
' iDost were adopted by wide margiiia
;in tbe House, wittrt tbe antidrug
efidrt is seen as a compelling electiofi-
year issue.
, House Jubcfoty ChairmaD Peter
:W. Rodmo Jr. who was
, descrfoed by c(^eagaes aa 'furious'
. over tbe decaaioo by Democmic
leeders to aBovcoosideratltti of the
gxclusiouary rule and death peoaJty
amendments, said. 'We have been
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aa SMlieu] aeeUng at Mindabi's bone la Soweio. Story on Poge A30.
House Democrats Accept
Senate's S. Africa Sanctions
Decision Qears Wiy for Fast Final Passage
ByHekn Dnw
1*iN"heSI«W«
House Denocntic leaders
agreed yesterday to accept tbe Senate's
veciieo at leglsliHoii imposiiig
saoctioia on the wblte-nunority
government of South Alrtce, clearing
the way for final passage of tbe
neaave as early as today.
Tbey sbsodoiied Ibeir own tougher
je^iallon after the Congressional
Black Caucua agreed to go along
in hopes cd assuring enactment of
sanctions, over a presidential veto if
necesesiy, before Congreea adjourns
for the year as scheduled in
early October.
To overcome concerns that the
Senate meesuro could be interpreted
to preempt state and local
lawa that ioclu^ atronger aanc-
CiaBS. tbe Houae will vote separately
on language asserting tbat it did
not intend to preclude any state or
Jocal action againat South AMca.
Senate Foreign Relatmis Committee
Chairman Rkhatd G. Lugar
(R-lDd>tuggesled during debate on
the measure last mooih that the
federal law would supersede slate
and local laws. But aides said yesterday
that his lemsrks were meant
to apply only to a particularfy farreaching
amendment under consideration
at the time,
Tbe Senate meiauie "is not as
strong as the Houae verahm but it
has real bite,' Rep. Howard E. Wolpe
(D-Mich ), chairman of the Foreign
Affairs subcommittee on Africs, tM
the Rules Cooimiitee in urging that
the House accept the Swate bill
rather than go to a potentially Irou-
Uesome conference on the issue.
Set SANCnONS, AM Cd C
Tlow^mkes Record P
Fear of Inflation, Higher Interest Rates Setf
By Stan Hindsn
awwueP* SWIIme
WaR Street was buried yesterday
in an avalanche of sell ordera that
gavs Qm stock maHiet one cd its
oeepesl price slides ever.
llM Dow juoes industrial sversge,
the mosr widely watdwd stock
lU^t baromster, plunged nn unprecedented
86.61 points. Market
srtalysta said the slide was caused in
large part by nervous mvesiors convinced
that inflation and higher intereet
rates iay ahead-
Volume on tbe New York Slock
Ek^nge hit 237.5 millioD shares,
a one-day record that eclipsed the
236.5 million shares tradsd mi Aug.
3.1984.
In the worst of all pos&ble
woilda, it doesn't get much worse
than that,' declated Larry WachteL
market analyst for Prudential-
Bsche, looking at the market's selloff.
Waditel said he expected another
wsve of selling today.
The DJIA closed at 1792.89.
down 86.61 pointa for the day, a
loss of 4.6 percent. While it was the
biggest one-day point.drop hi history,
the percentage loss was fu
less than the 12.9 percent drop on
Oct 28,1929, the year of the Great
Crash.
The Urgest previous one-day.
drop came on July 7, when the Dow
fell 61.87 points. Overall stockmarket
kuseh yesterday amounted
to S110.S2 billion, as messured by
an index maintained by the investment
film of WiUhire Associates.
Yesterday's market reaction revealed
a striking tumarotiod ID expectations
for the U.S. economy,.
Tbe setback occurred on^ one
week after the Dow hit an sdl-lime
record at 1919.71.
Market watchers said tbe sell-off
was a sign investors thou^t that
the bull market had run its course
and tbat Improved corporate earnings
would he insufficient to sustain
higher stock prices, especially li interest
rates rise.
A barrage of institutional selling
programs, linked to multimilliondollar
computer trading strategies,
playH a key role.
ViRually all atodia dechned. On
the NYSE, 1,695 atocka declined,
while only 168 iaaues increaaed and
182 were UDchnnged.
Tbe market was propelled dosmward
by a corntsnation of factors,
includii^ nervous selling linked to
Set BTOCKB.AaO. Coll
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A Board Room G
Put Tisch at CBS
Wyman's Revelations Seal-
By David A. Vise
WwltulM 1^ Sua Wnuf
NEW YORK, Sept, 11—
Three hours into the CBS board
of directors meeting Wednesday,
Chairman Thomas H. Wyman
took s gamble that was to cost
himftisjoh,
Wyman informed the board
that he had held secret discusaiofis
with Coca-Cols Co. about
acquiring CBS, and he recommended
to the board that it pursue
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(IM^io.) said ia atguing against
Xe death penallr ptoviaion. "I ttiink
|h4 we are seeing is polilicai 'pii-
K(gi'right before an election.'
!iy death penahy amendment
Approved m to 112 despite
..atges by critks that it is seriously
li<^ed and could provoke a Senate
libeateT, endangering tbe entire
litidrug package.
I Bat, in an atmosphere that one
Jtmgresaional ride described ss
Jnythitig goes," a mriority ot law-
Bakers agreed with Rep. George
|r. Cekss (R-Pa.), sponsor of the
Inendment, who t<^ the House:
1 The drug dealer will poison our
dace, enslave our childcen. kill I judge .... He will stop at noth-
|g. This amendment is society's
: to this killer who seems
^isioppabie."
I la the debate, advocates of a
,.s national war against illegal
.1 easily bniriied aside objec-
,...;s to the new provisioos.
I House voted 237 to 177 to
tbe preridect to deploy
'i military force to halt the
penetration of United
•tattt borders by aircraft and ves-
&ls carrying narcotics.'
£ The provision would require the
Siilkary to provide "continuous
3erial radar coverage of the southern
border of the United States'
dnd to 'pursue and seiae intruding
•ircraft" thought to be carrying ih
2gal drugs.
§ The amendment was opposed by
Bonservative members of the
§irmed Services Committee, who
tailed it unworkable and a diain on
fMtagon resources, and by liberal
xrata, who charged it was an
. .-cedented erosion of the role
4f civilian law enforcement.
I This strikes st something funmsmental
in our system,' said Rep.
4>on Edwards (D-Calif.). 'It brings
4he mililary, with all its awesome
^jght and unique misrion, into ci-
^Lun law enforcement.'
But supporters of the amendrnent
said a nstunal wax on drugsehoutd
deploy all ot tbe nauon's weapons.
"Give me tbe Army, the Navy,
tbe Air Force,' shouted Rep.
Tommy F. Robinsoo (D-Arfc.).
The House then voted 259 to
153 to relax tbe exclusionary rule
against illegal search and seizure.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep
Daniel E. Lungren (R-Calif.), vrould
allow tbe use in crimrisl trials of
evidence obtainqd illepily and
without s search warrant if the law
enforcement officer had acted in
"good faith.'
Lungren called his proposal the
gut-check amendment,' asying. If
you don't make this fundamental
change In tbe courtroom, it is all for
naught."
The Reagan ndministiation had a
mixed reaction to the most controversial
measures approved by the
House.
Concerning a military rale in
drug interdiction efforts. Defense
Department qiokesman Robert
Sims said: "Generally. Secretary
(Caspar W.) Weinberger's view is
that this is s bad precedent—that
ia, to use tbe Aitny as a (xdice
force.'
Justice Department officials,
however, quickly embraced the proweakening
of the excluskmacy
rule. This is Ceriific,*
department spokesman Terry H.
Eastland said. "Obviously the drug
issue is bringing members of the
House to their senses at last.'
Jerry Bernan, chief legislative
counsel of tbe American Civil Liberties
Union, said a relaxation of
rules against iilegal search and set.
sure "will do nothing to halt the
problem of drugs, but only erode
the privacy of every Ammcan ehisen.*
Bennan said he hoped the provisions
dealing with the death penalty,
the extfuskmary rule and the
role d tbe military will be striKied
from the bill by the Senate. There
is no way to stop the House when It
is in an election-year panic on an
Issue like this,' he said.
The House measure would authorize
ao estimated $1 6 billion in antidrug
programs in fecal 1987,
whicli begins Oct. 1, and a total of
airaoat $3 hBkm over the next
three yearn. The bill would increaae
criminal penalties for drug offenses,
beef up sgeades such as the Coast
Guard and Ibe Customa Service
that are charged with inteidictiog
drug traffic, and pour millioos of
dollars into drug education and rehabiliiation
programs and construction
of additional pnaons.
While major quesliona remain
over how tbe ambitious effort would
be financed, the House signaled
that co« was no object in the war
on drugs.
Altemptt to reduce (uoding kv-
^ in the bill were rejected, while
tfie House agreed, 24210 171, loan
amendment by Rep. Charles B.
Rsngel (D-N.Y.) that would add Si
billion to the overall cost of the program
by boosling antidrug grnnts to
state and local law enforcement
agencies from S300 million to $1.3
billion over the next Pwo years. The
proposal, which critics described as
a substitute for the expiring federal
revenue sharing program, also
would reduce tbe state and local
government matching-funds requirement
from 50 percent to 10
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priaon comtructioG,
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an additional $54 million to the
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for interdictkm efforts in the Briiamu,
and to require a sentence of
life imprisonment without parole for
an adult convicted a second time of
selling a dangerous drug to a minor
on ot near school grounds.
Meanwhile, President Reagan
presided over a thoic^ dlscusskHi'
<ri tbe drug issue in a Calhnet
council meeting yesterday, but
made no dednhns, according to (sie
officUL
In remarks yestetdiy to a grotgi
of buriness and dvic leaders, Reagan
^ke out strongly, saying:
"None ed us can rest while our children
are slill prey to pushers and a
culture of liceiise thai encourages
drug use-Hmmising kicks but deliveriiig
only despair and destruction.'
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CuwnciL in s spirited meeting
Wednesday, recommended a
sweeping antidrug effort. Senior
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meeling, and partidpants
were sworn to secrecy.
The coundl has recoramended
that all 1.1 mUlion federal workere
hi sensitive poairiooa be subjed to
testing for drug use, but left it up to
the prttident to determine whether
all governmeit job sKdicants
should be tested.
Office of Management and Budget
Director James C Miller 111
said Monday that the cost of the
president's program would be about
a quarter of a billion dollars in new
money. Presidential spcdiesman
tiry Speakea said yesterday that
the program totals between $2
(Idlionl and $2.5 billioa,' including
money to continiK programs already
in place^
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Maliy Moon and Mary Tiomlan
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Law/Judiciary
House Passes $6 Billion Anti-Drug Package
Despite continuing budget-deficit
problems, the House Sept. 11 overwhelmingly
approved legislation (HR
5484) authorizing more than S6 billion
to combat narcotics trafficking and
discourage the use of illegal drugs.
The vote was 392-16, with all but
one of the "nays" cast by Democratic
liberals who said the House was being
stampeded by political considerations
into approving provisions that threatened
civil liberties. The lone Republican
to oppose the bill was Philip M.
Crane of Illinois.
Most other members vociferously
supported the measure, approving
amendment after amendment that
stiffened penalties against drug dealers
and added money to programs.
Indeed, every amendment offered
that authorized more funds or expanded
anti-drug efforts in any way
was approved, and every amendment
that would have cut authorizations or
programs was rejected.
"It's mob mentality in there,"
said Brian J. Donnelly, D-Mass. "It's
just become the single biggest issue in
the country."
"In football there's a thing called
piling on," said Patricia Schroeder, DColo.
"1 think we're seeing political
piling on right before the election."
The omnibus drug bill, which now
goes to the Senate, was rushed
through the legislative process in the
House in seven weeks. Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill Ji,, D-Mass., announced
the initiative on July 23. It
was put together by Majority Leader
Jim Wright. D-Texas, in consultation
with Minority Leader Robert H. Michel,
R-lll. (Weekly Report p. 2068)
The measure authorizes new
funds for drug interdiction and for
drug-abuse education, prevention and
treatment. It stiffens penalties for
drug crimes, authorizing the death
penalty for those convicted of drugrelated
murders, and it requires the
military to become directly involved in
anti-drug efforts.
"This represents the first truly
comprehensive approach that Congress
will have made toward an all-out
—By Julie Rovner
war on this menace of illegal drugs,"
said Wright.
Not everyone agreed. "I fear this
bill is the legislative equivalent of
crack," said Barney Frank, D-Mass.,
referring to a potent new form of cocaine.
"It yields a short-term high, but
does long-term damage to the system
and it's expensive to boot."
Before passing the bill, the House
adopted amendments increasing authorization
levels by more than $1.2
billion. The Congressional Budget Office
had estimated the cost of the earlier
version at a total of $4,799 billion
over three years. $3,943 billion of it for
new programs and personnel.
'The House also adopted three
controversial. Republican-backed
amendments that authorize the death
penalty for certain drug traffickers,
give military personnel authority to
pursue and arrest drug smugglers in
U.S. territory, and provide an exception
for the so-called exclusionary
rule, which prohibits evidence obtained
illegally from being offered in
court.
These amendments, which were
allowed to be offered as a result of
negotiations between Wright and Michel,
angered some liberals. Several
Democrats criticized the leadership
for putting them in the position of
having to choose between long-held
philosophical views and running the
risk of "looking soft on drugs."
Senate Outlook
Several members expressed concerns
that the addition of such controversial
amendments turned a consensus
bill into one that could prompt a
Senate filibuster and potentially doom
the legislation.
Only minutes after the House approved
the death penalty amendment,
American Civil Liberties Union Director
Morton H. Halperin was pledging
all of the organization's resources toward
stopping the bill in the Senate.
But after final passage, a tired-
"This represents the first truly
comprehensive approach that
Congress will have made toward
an all-out war on this
menace of illegal drugs."
—House Majority Leader Jim Wright,
D-Texas
"I fear this bill is the legislative
equivalent of crach. It
yields a short-term high, but
does long-term damage to the
system and it's expensive to
boot."
—Rep. Barney Frank. D-Mass.
Cepyiiyhl CooyvtwOAol Qvoterl^ Wts
ttpioduenoe prohibfrd pol «ic«p4 br Sept. 13, 1986—PAGE 2125
Law/Judiciary • 2
looking Wright dismissed filibuster
threats and predicted quick Senate
passage and a presidential signature.
"Anyone responsible for preventing
this legislation from being enacted will
have an angry American public to answer
to," he warned.
The Senate, however, seems bent
on ignoring the House bill and taking
up its own package.
Majority Leader Robert Dole, RKan.,
said the leadership was waiting
for a Reagan administration package
expected the week of Sept. 15. President
Reagan planned a televised address
on the drug issue Sept. 14 with
his wife, Nancy, a longtime anti-drug
crusader.
Dole press secretary Walt Riker
said Senate Republicans hope to have
Reagan's plan, with a "substantial
amendment," ready for introduction
later in the week.
The president's package is expected
to include a provision requiring
drug testing for a large portion of the
federal work force, an issue that was
not taken up by the House.
Dole praised some elements of the
House bill, especially the floor amendments
dealing with the death penalty
and exclusionary rule, but voiced concern
about the measure's spending
levels. He also expressed reservations
about giving the military civilian law
enforcement powers.
In the meantime, the Senate
Democratic Caucus Sept. 9 announced
its own $1.65 billion package at a press
conference led by Minority Leader
Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va.
Billed as a complement to the
House bill, it would establish a Cabinet-
level "drug czar" to coordinate
federal drug control policy, increase
penalties for drug-related offenses,
and authorize funds for stepped-up
drug enforcement, interdiction at the
border, eradication in drug-source nations,
education, and treatment and
rehabilitation.
"There's a great deal of similarity"
between the Senate Democrats'
proposal and the House bill, said Sen.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., co-chairman
of a Byrd-appointed Senate
Democratic working group on substance
and narcotics abuse. "But let's
not talk about who got there first.
Let's just do what we all acknowledge
we want to do."
Troops, Evidence, Death Penalty
The military amendment, offered
by Duncan L. Hunter, R-Calif., and
Tommy F. Robinson, D-Ark., was approved
by a 237-177 vote. It would
require the Department of Defense to
use existing funds to "deploy equipment
and personnel of the armed
forces sufficient to halt the unlawful
penetration of U.S. borders by aircraft
and vessels carrying narcotics." For
the first time, the military would be
given authority to pursue suspected
drug smugglers into U.S. territory and
make arrests.
"We are telling the president of
the United States: 'You can't think
about it, you can't have a jelly bean.
You shall deploy the members of the
armed services,'" said Robinson.
But opponents warned against allowing
the military to enforce civilian
laws. "This is something you just can't
have in the United States," said Don
Eklwards, D-Calif. "Next they will
have tanks coming down the streets,
like in Chile."
The exclusionary rule amendment,
offered by Dan Lungren, RCalif.,
and adopt^ 259-153, creates an
exception to the rule. It would permit
evidence gathered in an illegal
search to be offered in court "if the
search or seizure was undertaken in a
reasonable, good-faith belief that it
was in conformity with the Fourth
Amendment to the Constitution,"
which prohibits unreasonable search
and seizure.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1984
that the rule could be suspended if
officers had acted under warrants
later found to be defective. Lungren's
amendment would permit "good
faith" warrantless searches. (1984 Almanac
pp. 227, 5-A)
"I would say this is a gut-check
amendment," said Lungren. "It goes
to the question of whether or not we
are serious about dealing with the
drug problem."
But critics argued that the exclusionary
rule's purpose is to protect the
innocent, not to let the guilty go free.
"The Lungren amendment puts a gaping
hole in the Fourth Amendment,"
said Dan Gtickman, D-Kan.
The day's most heated debate
came on an amendment offered by
George W. Gekas, R-Pa., that allows
the death penalty to be imposed on
drug traffickers involved in a "continuing
criminal enterprise" who
"knowingly cause the death of any
other individual."
"There can be no ultimate war on
drugs if we do not cast our ultimate
weapon," Gekas said.
Opponents said that the death
penalty was inappropriate in a consensus
bill, and pointed repeatedly to a
statement by Reagan that "the drug
issue is too important" to let it become
"embroiled in a side issue such
as the death penalty."
"This is one of the most tragic
days of my life when in our hatred of
drugs, we trample the Constitution,"
said Parren J. Mitchell, D-Md.
The amendment, adopted on a
296-112 vote, would establish the second
potentially enforceable federal
death penalty since a 1972 Supreme
Court decision struck down most state
and federal death penalty statutes.
Currently, the only such penalty is one
for a killing during an aircraft hijacking.
That was enacted in 1974, but the
law has never been tested, and some
lawyers say it could be unconstitutional
in light of subsequent Supreme
Court decisions on death penalty statutes.
(1974 Almanac p. 275)
Other Amendments
Other major amendments adopted
included:
• By Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla., to
allow the military to assist drug enforcement
officials in searches, seizures
and arrests outside the United
States, by 359-52. Bennett's amendment
was further amended by the
Hunter-Robinson amendment.
• By Ken Kramer, R-Colo., to establish
a sentence of life imprisonment
without parole for a second conviction
of an individual over age 21 for
selling drugs to a child or teenager or
selling drugs at or near a school; by
355-54.
• By Glenn English, D-Okla., to increase
new funds for the Drug Enforcement
Administration from $60
million to $114 million and to earmark
the additional money for cooperative
narcotics interdiction efforts in the
Bahamas.
• By Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., to
increase by $1,055 billion the authorization
for grants for state and local
law enforcement, to reduce the state
and local matching requirement from
50 percent to 10 percent, and to permit
the funds to be used for non-federal
prison construction; by 242-171.
• By Claude Pepper, D-Fla., to increase
the authorization of funds for
drug abuse treatment from $180 million
to $280 million, by voice.
The House also rejected a number
of amendments, including one by Bennett
to mandate transfer of aliens arrested
for illegal entry or other federal
laws from state and local jails to federal
prisons. The vote was 198-206. I
PAGE 2126—Sept. 13, 1986
M
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4121 Hillsboro Road • Suite 209
Nashville, 'Ibiincsscc 37215 ..bHAfOR,C.H:CHECHT
WASHINGTON. D.C.
lS8bSEP22 AHiO-U2
September 19, 1986
Senator Chick Hecht
U. S. Senate
Room SH-302
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
The Afnerican Pipe and Accessory League is an organizalion composed of 710
pipe, tobacco and accessory manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. We have
membership in all fifty states and five European countries. As director, it is
my duty to assemble the desires of our membership and share their concern. I
have received scores of letters and complaints concerning two bills which recently
passed the United States House of Representatives. The two bills, H.R.1625 and
H.R. 5282 (Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia and Import/Export of Drug Paraphernalia
which are apparently going to be merged into one bill by the United States Senate)
have created an incredible problem which 1 cannot resolve!
Please understand that the American Pipe and Accessory League feels that a
hard-line on drugs is not only necessary but long overdue. At the same time
though, we cannot have our tobacco products and accessories associated with drugs
or drug paraphernalia. The suggested lists of drug paraphernalia pipes includes
the composition of every conceivable historic, traditional and present day tobacco
pipe made or ever made, for example, metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic
or ceramic. Because of the Import-Export bill's exception citing Meerschaum
as a material that could not be used for drug paraphernalia, more questions have
surfaced. Now every traditional tobacco pipe manufacturer is rightfully seeking
their exemption status. Please find enclosed one such letter I have received from
a Dutch company which has been exporting pipes of ceramic and clay material to the
United States for over 235 years, but now find their ceramic and stone material
listed as drug paraphernalia.
In this time of drug and abuse awareness, any association, by name, to drugs
is devastating. 1 do not know how much these bills will help in curbing drugs
but I can already see the damage being rendered to traditional tobacco! The general
pipe and tobacco industry which have been under attack by way of the federal
ad/promotion ban and local "no smoking" ordinances may not be able to withstand
this final association with drugs.
Even though we are all against drugs and abuse, the American Pipe and Accessory
League cannot support this pending legislation for the reasons cited. Please
vote against t h i s i l l conceived smoking paraphernalia b i l l .
Sincerely,
RTV/es
End.
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VAN DER WANT
P I J P E N F A B R I H K E N
ANNO 1749 B.V.
Gouda , September 1 t I986
Dear Sir ,
Recently I was informed the House of Congress is
considering H,R« 5282 ( To prohibit the importation of drug
paraphernalia ) to become a law . Although I am not a US
citizen my company and ray family did mutual beneficial
business with 8hr US-agents for mobe then 255 years o
1774-1811
1811-1840
1840-1885
1885- 1898
1885-1917
1917-1966
I subscribe your goal to outlaw everything which makes
the consumption » trading and production of drugs feasible .
In your latest proposal of July 29 « I986 you define " stone
bowls ( except Meerschaum )" as drug paraphernalia » I am
convinced you don't want to harm the legal trade in my clay
tobaccopipes and my ceramic hollow bowl tobaccopipes , however
the earlierquoted text opens the possiblity that my products
sometimes are regarded as drugparaphernalia and sometimes as
tobaccopipes •
Since my ancestor Pieter van der Want started the
company in 17^9 we produce long clay pipes called Churchwardens.
It was by then the only smoking instrument because cigars .
cigarettes and briar pipes were unknown . At the start of this
century we started to glaze the pipes like pottery . My
ceramic pipes are used for puffing tobacco , decoration on the
wall ( for example my Delft Blue pipes and collecting ( Christmas
pipes) •
In your proposal you make an exception for Meerschaumpipes,
I wonder whether you could include my clay tobaccopipes and
ceramic pipes in the exception in order to avoid future doubts
and mistakes . It is a humble request on behalf of my US-agents
and hundreds of retailtobaccodealere who enjoy selling
tobaccopipes of a company older then your beuatiful nation •
1966-1984
Yours respectfully ,
Aart H.W, van der Want
eighth generation pipemaker
1984-
September 19, 1986
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SEP 19 PJJ 2 f,3 DRUG CONTROL ACT
TITLE I. WHITE HOUSE LEGISLATION WITH SUGGESTED CHANGES NOTED
A. Drug Free Federal Workplace Act of 1986
This title amends the Rehabilitation Act and the Civil
Service Reform Act to make sure they do not bar agencies from
taking disciplinary action against Federal employees found to be
using illegal drugs. Also it makes sure the term "handicapped",
for purposes of qualifying for benefits, does not include someone
whose only handicap is current addiction to, or use of, illegal
drugs or alcohol.
The Senate Bill deletes the provision relating to pending
litigation.
The Senate Bill adds House language which instructs 0PM to
educate Federal employees as to the dangers of drug abuse and to
the availability of treatment and prevention programs.
B. Drug-Free Schools Act of 1986
The Bill contains a provision which authorizes a new $100
million state-administered grant program to establish drug-free
learning environments. The Bill also makes clear that Federal
law would not bar an educational institution from conducting a
program of drug testing. The Administration's language has been
modified to remove many of the reporting requirements and
restrictions on the use of the funds.
Additionally, the Bill requires the designation of an
official for drug abuse activities at several departments.
Further, it prohibits the awarding of Federal funds under this
Title to states who prohibit drug testing in educational
institutions.
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C. Substance Abuse Services Amendments of 1986
The Administration's Bill eliminated various restrictions now
imposed on the states concerning the use of funds under the
alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services grant.
The Senate Bill would authorize appropriations for the
alcohol, drug abuse and mental health services block grant of
$600 million for fiscal year 1988, and 5% increases for fiscal
year 1989 through 1992. Of these funds, the Secretary, acting
through the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration,
shall reserve $100 million for existing state alcohol and drug
abuse treatment programs. Of this reserved amount, 40 percent
will be available for programs for "at-risk" youth.
The Bill also eliminates various restrictions now imposed on
states on the uses of funds under the Alcohol and Drug Abuse and
Mental Health Services Block Grant.
The Senate Bill grants the Secretary of Health and Human
Services the authority to withhold a State's alcohol, drug abuse
and mental health services block grant funds if the State
decriminalizes the possession or distribution of harmful drugs.
Another provision tracks previously reported legislation from
the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, S. 2595, "The
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Amendments of 1985" with
certain modifications. The modifications which include the
following:
One year reauthorization at $116 million for the National
Institute of Drug Abuse and $69 million for the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; deletion of
section 10 and 11; addition of the following provisions:
The Bill further requires that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall prepare a National Plan to Combat Drug
Abuse.
The Bill establishes an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Clearinghouse
for the dissemination of materials concerning education and
prevention of drug abuse.
Additionally we require the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, through the FDA, to conduct a study of alkyl nitrates
and report to the appropriate Congressional committees as to
whether this substance should be treated as a drug under the
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Further, no funds under this
portion will be available to any state which decriminalizes
possession of controlled substances.
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D. Drug interdiction and International Cooperation Act of 1986
International Forfeiture Enabling Act of 1986
This subtitle of the Administration package permits
forfeiture of property within the United States acquired from
foreign unlawful drug activities. The language from this
subtitle has been tracked in substantial part in S. 2683, the
"Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986", which was included in the.-
Senate Democrat package. The House package includes a similar
provision passed as a McCollum amendment. The Senate passed S.
2683 as an amendment to the Debt Ceiling Bill by a vote of 98-0.
This provision is folded into the money laundering title. It is
essentially duplicative of that subtitle and need not be included
as a separate subtitle.
1. Mansfield Amendment Repeal Act of 1986
This section repeals the "Mansfield Amendment" which
prohibits officers and employees of the United States from
participating in narcotics arrests in foreign countries, and from
the interrogation or presence at the interrogation of a United
States person arrested in a foreign country with respect to
narcotics control, without the written consent of the person
being interrogated.
The Senate Bill strikes the Administration provision and
inserts the Murkowski Bill which modifies the Mansfield Amendment
by repealing the prohibition against U.S. drug agents being
present during an arrest. U.S. drug agents may be present at the
interrogation of a U.S. citizens only upon the consent of that
citizen.
2. Narcotic Traffickers Deportation Act of 1986
This section simplifies the current provisions of the
Immigration and Nationality Act authorizing the exclusion and
deportation of individuals convicted of drug related crimes, and
specifies the violation of foreign drug laws as grounds for
deportation or exclusion. The House Bill was amended by
Congressman Lungren and includes the Administration language.
The Senate Democrat Bill does not address this matter. The
Senate Bill incorporates the concept of the Administration
proposal but uses the language offered by Congressman Lungren.
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3. Customs Enforcement Act
This subtitle makes a number of changes in the laws governing
Customs including increasing certain civil penalties and changing
the rules relating to the sale of seized assets. The Bill also
substantially increases penalties relating to unmanifested drugs
and other merchandise, grants the Secretary specific authority to
operate customs facilities in foreign countries and grants the
authority to extend U.S. Customs laws to foreign locations with
the consent of the country concerned.
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The Senate Bill modifies the language to provide severe
penalties directed at those involved in the illegal
transportation of drugs. Penalties are not inadvertently imposed
on those aircraft owners/operators/pilots who are unconnected
with the illegal drug trade. An additional modification
clarifies that aircraft owners and operators are liable for fines
only when they participated in or were aware of the use of their
aircraft for the transportation of illegal drugs.
4. Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements
Act of 1986
This section resolves prosecutorial problems, which arise
during criminal trials, resulting from the execution of existing
authority which allows the Coast Guard to stop and board certain
vessels at sea and make arrests and seizures for violations of
U.S. laws.
E. Anti-Drug Enforcement Act of 1986
It is important to note that under the Sentencing Reform Act
of 1984, beginning November 1, 1987, Federal courts will be
required to use guidelines established by the United States
Sentencing Commission. Amendments seeking to impose specific
sentences and/or fines for specific violations will severely
damage the effort to bring consistency to fixing sentences at a
level to meet the crime.
1. Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986
This section sets forth a series of amendments to stiffen
penalties for large-scale domestic drug trafficking. The House
Bill also increases penalties for such traffickers. The House
Bill was subject to extensive amendment on the Floor, resulting
in a patchwork of fines and penalties with no coordination or
consistency. Furthermore, there has been no effort to take into
account sentencing guidelines which are soon to be released by
the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Accordingly, the House penalties
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may negate the work of the Commission in developing such
guidelines. Likewise, the Senate Democrats Bill includes a
section to provide for stiffer penalties. The Administration's
penalty provisions in this section have been developed to take
the guidelines into account.
2. Drug Possession Penalty Act
This section rewrites the penalty provisions for simple
possession of controlled substances. These stiff new penalties
include increased fines, mandatory imprisonment for second time
offenders, and repeal of pre-trial diversion for first
offenders. The House Bill makes minimal changes to penalties for
simple possession. The Senate Democrat Bill increases penalties
for simple possession offenses.
3. Continuing Drug Enterprise Penalty Act of 1986
This section provides for imposition of the death penalty for
commission of certain criminal offenses. The offenses include an
intentional killing while engaged in a continuing drug
enterprise, assassination or attempted assassination of the
President, murder for hire, murder by a Federal prisoner serving
a life sentence, and murder or loss of life arising out of a
hostage taking situation. In addition, this subtitle sets up
constitutional procedures for the imposition of the death penalty
for all crimes for which the death penalty is currently
provided. Among others, current law provides for imposition of
the death penalty for commission of the crimes of treason,
espionage, murder, and aircraft piracy. The House Drug Bill
provides for the death penalty only when an individual
intentionally kills another while engaged in a continuing drug
enterprise. The Administration's language which is similar to
the House Bill is included in the Senate Bill. Additionally, the
Senate Drug Bill contains the provisions of S. 239, which was
reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee and is pending on the
Senate Calendar. Similar legislation passed the Senate in 1984.
United States Marshals Service Act of 1986
This section is substantially the same as S. 2044, introduced
at the request of the Department of Justice and pending in the
Judiciary Committee. The Bill has been the subject of strong
opposition from the Federal judiciary. The substance of the
subtitle is only peripheral to drug enforcement and perceived by
some to threaten courtroom security. Neither the House nor the
Senate Democrat Bill contain any similar provision. This section
is not included.
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4. Controlled Substances Import and Export Penalties
Enhancement Act of 1986
This section generally conforms penalties for import and
export violations to those established elsewhere in the
Administration's proposal. Once again, in an effort to strive
for consistency and encourage a comprehensive approach to the
drug penalty structure, the Administration's provisions are
incorporated as part of the Senate Bill.
5. Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986
This section provides for additional penalties for persons
who make use of juveniles in drug trafficking. Both the House
Bill and the Senate Democrat Bill address this same issue. The
House language makes it a crime for the adult offender to
"employ, use, persuade, induce, entice or coerce a person under
eighteen" to commit drug offenses, whereas the Administration's
language requires that the juvenile "act in concert" with the
adult offender. The Senate proposal incorporates the best
features from both the House Bill and the Administration's
language. It also incorporates language from the Senate
Democrats providing enhanced penalties for distribution to minors
and adds a new concept providing for enhanced penalties for
knowingly distributing to a pregnant individual.
6. Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1986
This section establishes a new system of control over the
sales of certain precursor and essential chemicals in the
manufacture of illegal drugs through new record keeping,
reporting, and identification requirements designed to keep these
chemicals out of the hands of illegal drug manufacturers. The
House package only provides for a study to determine the need for
legislation or regulation to control the diversion of legitimate
precursor and essential chemicals to the illegal manufacture of
drugs. The Senate Democrat package does not include any like
provision.
Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986
This section of the Administration package provides an
offense for laundering the proceeds of certain specified crimes.
This section closely tracks the language of S. 2683, which has
passed the Senate and is also part of the Senate Democrat
package. The House package includes a slightly different money
laundering bill. S. 2683 was the subject of give-and-take
compromise with the Minority in order to develop consensus
legislation. It is very positive legislation, however, the
Administration's language is preferred. The Administration's
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bill differs from S. 2683 in that it provides: enhanced
protection for financial institutions which disclose information;
broader summons authority for the Treasury Department; and,
forfeiture authority under title 31 rather than title 18. The
Senate bill adopts the Administration's language with certain
minor amendments. Since this measure has been passed in large
measure by the Senate, it appears in the text of the Bill in
Title II.
Controlled Substances Technical Amendments Act of 1986
This section makes technical corrections to the Controlled
Substances Act. The provisions of this subtitle were passed by
the Senate when it passed S. 1236 on April 17, 1986. The
provisions of this subtitle are included in the House Drug Bill
and the Senate Democrat Drug Bill. The provisions of the
Administration's Drug Package is included in the Senate Bill.
Since this measure has been passed by the Senate, it appears in
the text of the Bill in Title II.
Controlled Substances Analogs Enforcement Act of 1986
(Designer Drugs)
This section makes it unlawful to manufacture with the intent
to distribute, or to possess "designer drugs" intended for human
consumption. Since this measure has been passed by the Senate,
it appears in the text of the Bill in Title II.
The Administration provision is identical to S. 1437 as it
passed the Senate last December, with the exception of the
addition of conforming amendments. These conforming amendments
incorporate the prohibition of controlled substances analogs
elsewhere in the criminal code where reference is made to
controlled substances.
The House Bill contains a provision similar to S. 1437;
however, the definition of controlled substances analog set forth
in H.R. 5246 is problematic. The Senate Bill sets forth language
almost identical to S. 1437 except that the fines are increased
from ?250,000 to ?500,000 for an individual and $2 million other
than individuals.
7. Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986
This section of the Administration package provides for the
forfeiture of substitute assets where the proceeds of a specified
crime are lost, beyond judicial reach, substantially diminished,
or commingled. This subtitle goes beyond the other proposals in
the Senate Democrat package and the Senate-passed S. 2683, both
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of which only provide for the forfeiture of traceable assets.
The House package does not provide for the forfeiture of
traceable or substitute assets.
8. Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act of 1986
This section contains limitations on the exclusionary rule
under which Federal courts have in the past suppressed or
excluded otherwise admissible evidence because of a determination
that it was obtained in an illegal manner. This proposal is
similar to S. 1784 which passed the Senate in the 98th Congress
and to S. 237 introduced by Senator Thurmond in the current
Congress. The Administration's language is preferable in that it
incorporates a standard which conforms most closely to case law
decided by the Supreme Court. The House Bill was amended to
provide for a limited exception to the exclusionary rule. The
Senate Democrat Bill contains no such provision.
9. Public Awareness and Private Sector Initiatives of 1986
This section creates a narrow, two year exemption from the
Competition in Contracting Act to allow payment of out-of-pocket
expenses for media and publication preparation where at least 50%
of the costs are borne by the private sector. It also creates a
narrow exemption to the current prohibition against releasing,
for domestic audiences, United States Information Agency films,
television spots, publications, etc.
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TITLE II« BILLS PREVIOUSLY AGREED TO BY THE SENATE INCORPORATED
INTO THE BILL
A. S. 630 — Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act.
This Bill provides rewards to those assisting with the arrest
and conviction of persons guilty of killing or kidnapping a
Federal drug agent.
B. S. 850 — A bill to make it a Federal criminal offense to
operate or direct the operation of a common carrier while
intoxicated as a result of using alcohol or drugs.
C. S. 1236 — Technical amendments to the Comprehensive Crime
Control Act of 1983, as modified.
D. S. 1298 — Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention
Act, with a modification adding additional law enforcement
language for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
E. S. 1437 — Designer Drug Enforcement Act as modified.
Includes conforming amendments suggested by the
Administration.
F. S. 2638 — The bill includes the authorization language
contained in the Department of Defense Authorization for
fiscal year 1987, which provides $227 million for drug
interdiction by the U.S. Customs Service and the U.S. Coast
Guard. The Senate Bill also calls for a study of drug use,
treatment and education at schools operated by the Department
of Defense. It also includes language to include driving
while impaired to the U.S. Code of Military Justice.
G. S. 2683 — Money Laundering
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TITLE III. NEW INITIATIVES AGAINST DRUGS
A. White House Conference
Establishes a White House Conference on Drug Abuse,
Education, Prevention and Treatment. Both the House Bill and the
Senate Democrat Bill call for a White House Conference.
B. Federal Railroad Administration
FRA is directed to establish a program for the random drug _
testing of railroad engineers and all employees directly
responsible for the safety of railroad operations.
C. Federal Aviation Administration
FAA is required to include in any "drug free workplace
program", a requirement that all air traffic controllers and
other agency personnel directly involved in air safety submit to
random drug testing. FAA is also directed to establish a program
for the testing of airline pilots, mechanics, and all employees
directly responsible for the safety of flight operations.
D. Use of Fraudulent Aircraft Registration
Adopts the House provision which, establishes a Federal
violation for the use of a forged or altered aircraft
registration in conjunction with transporting controlled
substances. Allows states to establish criminal penalties for
the use or attempted use of forged or altered aircraft
registration. States are allowed to provide for the seizure of
aircraft.
E. Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is authorized to revoke
licenses and seize communications equipment used in drug related
activities.
F. Highway Safety
The bill would establish a single, uniform license for
commercial bus and truck drivers. This would prevent commercial
drivers who have had licenses suspended or revoked in one state,
perhaps for alcohol or drug-related incidents, from "forum
shopping" and obtaining a new license in another state.
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The Bill would use a withholding of Federal highway funds to
encourage states to participate in the uniform licensing system.
And would also: 1) increase from $20 million to $60 million the
authorization for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program,
some of such increase to be used for roadside testing of drivers
for alcohol and drug impairment; 2) authorize funding for the
establishment of computer links between states to communicate
commercial driver license information, including prior drug and
alcohol use; and 3) use the withholding of Federal highway
funding to encourage the states to set .04 Blood Alcohol Content
as the maximum acceptable level for commercial drivers (this is
the standard used for airline pilots and railroad engineers).
The bill is very similar to S. 1903, which was reported
unanimously by the Commerce Committee.
The Senate Bill also contains resolution language that calls
upon the states to administer, where there is cause to do so,
tests of drivers suspected of driving under the influence of
controlled substances.
G. Harmful Inhalants
This section suggested by Senator Roth makes it illegal to
sell or advertise substances for the purpose of becoming
intoxicated. The section only applies where the substance has
traveled or is intended for travel in interstate commerce or the
mails.
The section provides for a sentence of five years and a
$250,000 fine.
H. GSP
The bill also includes a provision which requires that GSP
status be withdrawn from countries that do not cooperate in drug
control efforts.
I. Civil Penalty for Importing Drugs
For purposes of assessing a civil penalty for the illegal
importation of controlled substances, the Customs Service is
authorized to assign a value equal to the street value of the
controlled substance. And the civil penalty for such importation
will be two times the street value. This is relevant also to the
payments to informants since their informants fee will be based
on such a street value.
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j. Habeas Corpus Reform
This section would curb the current abuse of habeas petitions
by providing that a Federal court may dismiss a petition if it
has been fully and fairly reviewed by the state court. This bill
would also promote finality of state court decisions by requiring
that habeas petitions be filed within a certain period of time.
S. 2301, which is identical to the language included in this
Bill, is pending on the Senate Calendar.
K. Armed Career Criminals
The bill includes the language of S. 2312. Present law
defines an armed career criminal as an individual who has three
or more convictions for "robbery or burglary". Under current
law, if a career criminal is convicted of possession of a
firearm, he must be sentenced to 15 years. S. 2312, which was
reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee, redefines an armed
career criminal as an individual who has three or more
convictions "for a crime of violence" or "a serious drug offense,
or both". The Administration package made no reference to armed
career criminals. The House package and the Senate Democrat
package both contain subtitles relating to career criminals.
They are substantially similar to S. 2312.
L. Drug Paraphernalia
S. 713, the Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act,
prohibits the sale and transportation of drug paraphernalia
through the services of the Postal Service or in interstate
commerce. It also provides for the seizure, forfeiture, and
destruction of drug paraphernalia. The Administration package
does not include any drug paraphernalia reference.
Representative Levine offered an amendment to the House package
which is substantially similar to S. 713.
M. Intelligence Agencies
The Bill designates the drug problem as a high-priority
national intelligence collection and action target and directs
the establishment of an inter-agency coordinating committee with
representatives from all intelligence collection and analysis
agencies, to set and prioritize drug-related intelligence
collection and action goals and targets and coordinate the
various drug-related activities of these agencies. The Bill also
requires an annual, classified report from the DCI to the
Intelligence Committees of both Houses, outlining what US
intelligence has done about drugs the preceding year? what it
will do in the coming year? and what it could do if additional
resources were provided.
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N. Improving Law Enforcement And Narcotics Control Abroad
1. Requires the President to submit an annual report to the
Congress listing any country:
a. which engages in or facilitates the production or
distribution of illegal drugs.
b. any senior officials of which do so.
c. in which U.S. drug enforcement agents have suffered
or been threatened with.
d. which has refused reasonable U.S. requests for
cooperation in anti-drug programs, including aerial
"hot pursuit."
2. No U.S. aid shall be given, and U.S. representatives to
multilateral development banks shall oppose all aid from
those banks, to all countries listed, unless the
President certifies:
a. There is overriding national interest in providing
such aid.
b. The drug aid will encourage better cooperation on
drug programs.
3. The government of the country has adequately dealt with
cases of violence against U.S. drug enforcement agents.
Food aid and drug enforcement aid would be excluded from the
prohibition.
4. Drugs are declared a national security problem and the
President is urged to explore the possibility of engaging
such essentially security-oriented organizations as NATO
in cooperative drug programs.
5. Amends Foreign Assistance Act requiring that willingness
of foreign countries to enter into Mutual Legal
Assistance Treaties with the United States in order to
combat money-laundering should be factored into
Presidential determinations of foreign assistance.
6. Modifies FY 1987 conditions on assistance to Bolivia in
recognition of Bolivian cooperation with the United
States during Operation Blast Furnace. Places near term
emphasis on continued Bolivian cooperation on
interdiction efforts and later assistance on Bolivia's
progress in meeting illicit crop eradication goals.
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7. Requires that intelligence agencies conduct a sufficient
number of aerial and other surveys to insure that a
reliable estimate of illicit crop production levels may
be made for the major producing countries.
8. Strengthens the Latin American Administration of Justice
program and permits human rights training funds to be
provided foreign police forces.
9. Various technical amendments.
O. Harcotics Control Assistance
Given the skyrocketing cost for maintenance of U.S. supplied
eradication and interdiction aircraft in Mexico, as well as the
inefficiencies of the program, a section was added which states
the United States shall retain title of aircraft and lease them
to the Mexican government (modification of House provision).
P. Freedom of Information Act
This section will prohibit public disclosure of law
enforcement investigative information that could reasonably be
expected to alert drug dealers and organized crime of law
enforcement activity related to them. A Drug Enforcement
Administration study found that 14% of all drug enforcement
investigations were significantly compromised or cancelled due to
public disclosure of information related to these investigations
and informants involved in them. The Director of the FBI and the
Department of Justice support this legislation. As well, this
language was unanimously approved by the Senate in the 98th
Congress. The House Drug Bill makes no reference to this problem
with the Freedom of Information Act.
Q. U.S. Forest Service S. 2809.
Grants general arrest authority to and permits the carrying
of firearms by designated Forest Service personnel. Authorizes
Forest Service personnel to enforce the Controlled Substances
Act. Prohibits the possession of a firearm or the placement of
boobytraps on Federal property where a controlled substance is
manufactured.
R. Trust Fund for Tax Refunds and Contributions
Vfhen taxpayers file their income tax returns, they would be
allowed to designate that all or part of any refund due be
contributed to a Drug Addiction Prevention Trust Fund. Taxpayers
may also make additional contributions to the Trust Fund at the
time they file their tax returns.
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S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Provides general, as opposed to limited, arrest authority to
agents in the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
T. Agriculture Payments and Loans
Extends current exclusion from receiving payments or loans if
found guilty of cultivation of controlled substances from 4 years
to 9 years, and establishes rewards for information leading to
the conviction of those cultivating controlled substances.
U. Action
Current law authorizes approximately $2 million under the
direction of ACTION for volunteer demonstration projects, of
which about $500,000 is currently allocated to drug abuse
prevention, education and treatment through the use of
volunteers. This provision would increase the current
authorization by $3 million, which would be earmarked for
expansion of the drug program.
V. STUDIES
1. Study on the Use of Existing Federal Buildings as Prisons
The Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of
Defense shall jointly conduct a study to identify any building
owned or operated by the United States which could be used, or
modified for use, as a prison by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
2. Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study
The National Drug Enforcement Policy Board, in consultation
with the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System and state
and local law enforcement officials, shall study Federal drug law
enforcement efforts and make recommendations. The Board shall
report to Congress within 180 days of enactment of this subtitle
on its findings and conclusions.
3. Uniform Crime Reports and National Victimization Survey
Directs the inclusion of drug offenses as Part I offenses in
the Uniform Crime Report, and expands the National Victimization
Survey to include victimization of drug use.
4. Narcotic Assistance Study
GAO is mandated to conduct a study of our narcotic assistance
programs (House provision).
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W. BORDER INTERDICTION
1. Department of Defense
The first section, by slightly amending existing statutes,
provides for the limited use of the military in drug
interdiction. Current law allows the use of military equipment
and personnel to enforce violations of the Controlled Substances
Act, upon the declaration of an emergency circumstance by the
Attorney General and Secretary of Defense. An emergency
circumstance "may be determined" to exist only when (1) the size
or scope of the suspected criminal activity in a given situation
poses a serious threat to the interests of the United States; and
(b) enforcement of the law would be seriously impaired if
assistance was not provided. The Senate Bill changes the
language to state: "an emergency circumstance exists when . . ."
Further, current law provides that the military may not be
used to interdict or to interrupt the passage of vessels or
aircrafts. The Senate Bill allows military personnel to
intercept for the purpose of identifying, monitoring, and
communicating the location and movement of vessels until such
time as Federal, state, or local law enforcement officials can
assume responsibility.
2. Additional Funds for Southern Border Initiative
The Administration has identified a need for a total of $400
million for the Southwest Border Initiative. In addition, the
Administration believes the Southeast Border Initiative may cost
$100 million. Title II of the Senate Bill provides $227 million
contained in the Senate-passed DOD Authorization Bill, an
additional $273 million is provided for a Southern Border
Initiative, bringing the total to $500 million.
3. Coast Guard Interdiction
The Senate Bill recognizes the important role the Coast Guard
plays in drug interdiction and the need to fund it adequately.
It provides continuing authority for the Coast Guard to engage in
maritime air surveillance and interdiction, and clarifies
existing enforcement authority concerning inspections,
examinations, searches, seizures and arrests.
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FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1987
A. Drug Enforcement Administration
The FY 1987 Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and
Related Agencies Appropriations Bill appropriated $427 million
for the DBA, this is $15 million more than was appropriated by
the House. We recommend an additional $45 million be authorized.
B. Federal Prison System
The Senate FY 1987 Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations
bill appropriated $129 million for prison construction compared
to $122.5 million in the House bill. We recommend an additional
$50 million be appropriated for these purposes.
Additionally, we would recommend that an additional $28
million be appropriated to finance the subsistence costs, medical
care, and prison guards associated with an increased prison
population.
C. The Judiciary, Defender Services
The FY 1987 Senate Commerce, Justice, Appropriations bill,
etc., appropriated $70 million as compared with the House bill
which appropriated $68.3 million. We would recommend an
additional $18 million be appropriated.
D. The Judiciary, Fees of Jurors and Commissioners
The Senate FY 1987 Commerce, Justice, etc., Appropriations
Bill appropriated $47 million as compared to the $44.6 million
appropriated by the House. We would recommend an additional $7.5
million be appropriated.
E. Drug Education Program Abroad
Authorizes an additional $3 million for AID and $2 million
for USIA devoted solely for drug education programs abroad.
F. Narcotics Control Assistance
The bill increases the narcotics foreign assistance authority
for FY 1987 by $45 million, $10 million of which is for
eradication and interdiction aircraft for use primarily in Latin
America (modification of House provision).
Additionally, $1 million of narcotics assistance funds is
earmarked for research on developing an aerial herbicide for coca
(House provision).
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G, State and Local'Narcotics Control Assistance
Provides $100 million in grant funds, in a 50% matching
formula, to state and local enforcement agencies to be used for
investigation, arrest, and prosecution of drug offenders.
CAP REMOVAL FROM FORFEITURE FUNDS
The Department of Justice has a forfeiture fund generated
from seizures of assets in drug related prosecutions. The assets
consists of cash and proceeds of sales of these assets. By law,
these funds can be used for certain law enforcement purposes.
However, there is cap, administered by the Appropriations
Committee, on how much of the funds can be used each year. This
cap undercuts the basic purposes of the funds to have the seized
proceeds of criminal activities help finance the war on crime.
The Senate Bill would remove the cap on the fund and would
remove it from the budget allocation process. The bill would not
prevent the funds from being sequestered, if there were a
sequester.
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; Senate Republicans yesterday
jumped into the antidrug crusade
Sweeping Capitol Hill, unveiling a
$1.3 billion program at a news conference
that featured 10 GOP sen-
Stors seeking reelection in Novemt)
er.
« 1 don't think there is any turning
back," Majority Leader Robert J.
•Dole (R-Kan.) said in predicting enactment
of a major antidrug pack-
5age before Congress' scheduled
Adjournment in two weeks.
I "This bill is going to separate the
kalkers from the doers on the issue
[of drugs." added Sen. Strom Thur-
Imood (R-S.C.). •»-
t. Dole said he hopes a bipartisan
antidrug package can be fashioned
:&om the GOP proposal and. a plan
.(announced earlier by Senate Denijocrats.
He said enactment of anti-
•dn% legislation "is one thing ttat
•might make it worthwhile to stick
iarouttd here" beyond the Oct. 3 ad-
'joumment target.
I However, reaching a bitarti^
•consensus on antidrug legislation
I may be impeded by differences over
several key issoes.
Last week,, the House overwhelmingly
approved an antid^
measure that would allow capital
punishment in drug-related murders.
The Senate GOP proposal expands
on this, allowing the death
penalty for assassination or attempted
assassination of the president,
murder committed under a
•^urdet-for-hire" contract, murder
by a federal prisoner serving a life
and murder or odier loss
of life during a hostage-taking incident.
•
; The Senate Democrats' bill con-
' tains no death-penalty provision.
and an attempt to adopt one in the
Senate could easily set off a filibuster.
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The Democratic proposal also
"would not change the "exclusiona^
rule," which bars use of illegally
obt^ned evidence in court. The
Senate GOP measure, like the
House bill, would grant "good-faith
exceptions to the rule in drug cases.
Another difference centers on
the use of the military in drug interdiction
efforts. The Senate Republican
plan calls for limited use of
riie military, to track and identify
aircraft and ships thought to carry
iUegai drugs, while the mote ambitious
House bill would direct the
military to "pursue and seize" intruding
airct^ and ships and to
Kovidfi round-the-clock aeral radar
.coverage of the country's sm^em
" • •
Dole said the Senate RepiMcan
plan would be less expensive tim
the House-passed measure, which
he estimat^ would cost $3 billion
in its firet year, compared with $1.3
billion for the GOP proposal. Othere
have estiniated the cost <rf the
House measure at more than $2
billion in fiscal 1987 and up to $6
l^n over the next fiye years:
. "We don't have to get hooked on
the spending habit to beat America's
drug p^)lem,* Dole said.
( President Reagan renewed his
antidrug message yesterday, referring
to a "drug and alcohol epidemic
in this country" that "no one is safe
from—not you, not me, and certamly
not our children, because this ep^
. idenuc has their name written on it.
In a speech to presents of historically
Wack colleges, Reagan told
of an 8-year-old drug a«r and pusher
whom Nancy Reagan learned of
while visiting a drug treatment center.
Reagan said the boy wore a
beeper to class so he could be notified
when he had a customer.
The president repeated the
theme of the televised appeal he
delivered with the First Lady last
Sunday and said he believed the
fight against drugs would won.
He quoted from the diary of a
World War I soldier, who wrote of
his determination to fight the war
"as if the issue of the whole struggle
depended on me alone."
"This is how America will crusade
against drugs." Reagan said.
"Not by making excuses, but by
each of us doing our part, by pulling
together." . .
Sixteen GOP senators attended
yesterday's Capitol Hill news conference,
inckding 10 who are up for
reeiection^Dole bristled when
a^ed why the Republicans had
waited to announce their antidrug
initiative, accusing the Democraticcontrolled
House of allowing antidrug
bills to "languish" all year and
then rushing to see how much
money you can throw" at the drug
problem.
But Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.;,
who is not up for reelection, acknowledge
the strmig
yrar forces that are propellmg Congress
toward enactment of major,
antidrug legislation. Praising" Sen.
Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) for her early
antidrug efforts, Gramm said that
now "everybody is stampeding to
get in on the issue, and that's
right."
Describing the U.S. situation as a
"war for survival" against drug dealers.
Hawkins said: "For too long we
have been outspent, outmannedand
outgunned in this war on drugs."
Among its provisions, the Senate
GOP plan would impose a mandatory
prison sentence for a second
conviction of drug possession and
would require random drug tests
for air traffic controllers.
The measure also would encourage
taxpayers due a refund to donate
a portion of it to the federal
antidrug campaign, which Dole ^
ticnated could raise up to $6 milhon
a year.
• i
staff writer Barbara Vobejda
contributed to this report
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During consideration of the House Omnibus Drug bill. Rep. Tomny
Robinson and I successfully offered an amendment which would provide
us with the necessary tools to win the war on drugs.
The Hunter-Robinson provisions direct the President to deploy,
within 30 days of the enactment of the bill, military equipment and
personnel in sufficient numbers to halt the unlawful penetration by
aircraft and vessels of drug traffickers across our border. The
military could locate, pursue, seize, and arrest crews of planes and
boats that are trafficking in drugs. The military could make
arrests only along U.S. borders and if they were in "hot pursuit".
In recent days, however, the Department of Defense has termed
this amendment an "impossible task." OOD has made statements saying
that they will have to interdict 88,000 aircraft and place troops
shoulder to shoulder across our border if these provisions are
enacted into law. These statements are very misleading.
I am enclosing some information which I believe will clarify the
purpose of this amendment and also show that DOD has the resources
to help in the war against drugs. I hope that during consideration
of the Senate drug bill, similar provisions will be included. If
you have any questions please contact Vicki Middleton of my staff at
X55672.
With best wishes.
Member of Congress
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INTERDICTION FACTS
** While approximately 88,000 low flying aircraft enter U.S.
airspace, this is not the number of aircraft that the Department
of Defense would have to interdict. (This translates into
approximately 10 planes an hour.)
** First, aircraft crossing our northern border would be excluded.
** Second, all small aircraft crossing our southern border must
land at one of 27 designated airports. Therefore, small
aircraft that land at these designated border airports would not
have to be interdicted.
** A recent GAO report estimates that between 3,600 and 10,000
aircraft are suspected of smuggling illegal narcotics across our
southern border. That translates to between 10-27 planes a day
coming across the border.
**In addition, 60% of cocaine is smuggled by air and 90% of that at
night.
E2-C AVAILABLE FOR DRUG INTERDICTIOM
**As of 1/86 there were a total of 83 E2-C aircraft with 13 funded
but not built.
** Currently there are 6 carrier battle groups deployed. There are
4 E2-C's with each battle group. Total number of E-2C's
deployed 24.
** Therefore, there are 59 E-2C's not deployed and available for
drug interdiction efforts.
** It would take 6 E-2C stations to provide radar coverage of our
southern border. The Department of Defense estimates that it
would take 20 aircraft to provide nighttime coverage of our
border.
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Ft. Bragg, NC 71
Ft. Stewart, GA 1°
Ft. Lewis, WA 36
Ft. Ord, CA 25
Ft. Devens, MA ^
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Ft. Eustis, VA 24
Ft. Rucker, AL 21
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AMENDMENT TO THE COMMITTEE PRINT OF THE OMNIBUS DRUG BILL
OFFERED BV MR. HUNTER OF CALIFORNIA
strike out subsection (a) o£ section 206 of the bill
(page 29, lines 13 through 19), and redesignate the following
subsections accordingly.
At the end of title II of the bill (page 30, after line
15), add the following new section:
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1 SEC. 207. DSE OP ARMED FORCES FOR INTERDICTION OF NARCOTICS
AT UNITED STATES BORDERS.
(A) GENERAL REQUIREMENT.—
(1) AUTHORITY TO LOCATE, PURSUE, AND SEIZE AIRCRAFT
AND VESSELS.—Within 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the President shall deploy
equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces sufficient to
halt the unlawful penetration of United States borders by
aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics. Such equipment
and personnel shall be used to locate, pursue, and seize
such vessels and aircraft and to arrest their crews.
Military personnel may not make arrests of crew members
of any such aircraft or vessels after the crew members
have departed the aircraft or vessels, unless the
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milicary personnel are in hoc pursuit.
(2) RADAR COVERAGE.—within 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall deploy
radar aircraft in sufficient numbers so that during the
hours of darkness there is continuous aerial radar
coverage of the southern border of the United States.
(3) PURSUIT AIRCRAFT.—The president also shall
deploy sufficient numbers of rotor wing and fixed wing
aircraft to pursue and seize intruding aircraft detected
by the radar aircraft referred to in paragraph (2). The
President shall use personnel and equipment of the United
States Customs Service and the Coast Guard to assist in
carrying out this paragraph.
(4) USE OF NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES.—in carrying
out this section, the President shall use members of the
National Guard and the Reserves. The tours of such
members shall correspond to their training commitments
and shall be considered to be within their mission. T*-
President shall withhold Federal funding from any
National Guard unit whose State commander does not
cooperate with the drug interdiction program required by
this Act.
(5) EXPENSES.—The expenses of carrying out this
section shall be borne by the Department of Defense,
(b) 45-DAY DEADLINE.—The president shall substantially
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1 haln the unlawful per.otro t ion of United States borders by '
2 aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics within 45 days after'
3 the date of the enactment of this Act.
4 (c) REPORT.—within 50 days after the date of the
5 enact.ment of this Act, the President shall report to Congress
6 the following:
7 (1) The effect on military readiness of the drug
B interdiction program required by this section and the
9 costs in the areas of procurement, operation and
10 maintenance, and personnel which are necessary to restore
11 readiness to the level existing before commencement of
12 such program.
13 (2) The number of aircraft, vessels, and persons
14 interdicted during the operation of the drug interdiction
15 program and the number of arrests and convictions ,
16 resulting from such program.
17 (3) Recommendations for any changes in existing law
18 that may be necessary to more efficiently carry out this
19 program.
20 (d) REQUEST FOR FUNDING.--within 90 days after the date
21 of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to
22 Congress a request for—
23 (1) the amount of funds spent as a result of the drug
24 interdiction program required by this section? and
25 (2) the amount of funds needed to continue operation
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2 Such request shall include amounts necessary to restore the
3 readiness of the Armed Forces to the level existing before
4 cciratencement of the program.
5 (e) BUDGET REQUESTS.—eegi nnir.g with the budget request
6 for fiscal year 1988 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the
7 Preside.nt shall submit in his budget for the Department of
8 Defense a request for funds for the drug interdiction program
9 required by this section in the form of a separate budget
10 function.
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and Tomnw Robinson (00b, r SSo^JastSr
Duncan Hunter
Member of Congress
'Misinformation' charged
to Pentagon on drug tactics
By Jennifer Spevacek
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Pentagon is spreading "misinformation"
to discredit a controversial
congressional move todeploy
the military in the war on drugs, the
measure's sponsors said yesterday.
"We're not talking about people
with bayonets and gas masks ...
holding hands across the border,"
said Rep. Duncan Hunter, California
Republican. "This is something
that's easily achievable by the U.S.
military."
The measure, which would give
the president 30 days after passage
to deploy the military to stop drugcarrying
boats and planes at the borders,
is included in the sweeping
anti-drug package approved by the
House last week.
Defying predictions, the measure
was approved 237-177 as a floor
amendment to the bill.
After intense Pentagon lobbying,
the Senate will probably try to cut
the amendment out of the bill, said
Rep. Tbmmy Robinson. Arkansas
Democrat and co-sponsor of the
amendment.
"Now that we have a tough bill, it's
like a hot potato," Mr. Robinson said.
"If they succeed in weakening this
bill on the Senate side, I fully intend
to demonstrate what they've done.
... This bill will end up being nothing
more than a political turkey."
Majority Leader Robert Dole is
expected to unveil his own anti-drug
package today. Senate reaction to the
Hunter amendment has been "bemused
contempt," one Senate staff
member said.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
has called the proposal
"pretty absurd," arguing that it
would be nearly impossible to carry
out and damaging to military
readiness.
Mr. Hunter said the defense secretary
has been the victim of "an
embarassing lapse on the part of his
staff" and is "misinformed."
"The misinformation coming
from the Pentagon has been very interesting—
They could do it in two
days," Mr. Hunter said.
At any given time, there are more
than enough planes and helicopters
sitting idle that could be used for the
drug interdiction program, he said.
For example, the military has"83
E-2C radar planes of which about
two dozen are deployed at any given
time, Mr. Hunter said. That means
59 are sitting on miiita)7 bases unused,
while only six are needed to
provide radar coverage of the entire
U.S.-Mexico border, he said.
The Pentagon maintains that it
would have to buy at least 32 of the
expensive radar planes to carry out
the plan, "You just can't take how
many you've got aloft, because
you've got to have backup," a Pentagon
spokesman said.
Mr Hunter said the Pentagon also
has misrepresented the number of
planes it would have to intercept at
the borders.
While about 78,000 private planes •
enter the country each year, most 1
enter legally and land just inside the I
border to check in with US. Cus- i
toms, Mr. Hunter said. "Obviously '
the drug smugglers don't stop," he i
said. .
The General Accounting Office •
estimates that between 3,600 and
10,000 planes enter illegally each
year, or about 27 a day, Mr. Hunter •
said.
It is "disingenuous" for the mili- •
tary tolobby for the proposed Strategic
Defense Initiative — which assumes
military technology to defend
against a nuclear attack — while
claiming to be unable to stop a few
dozen small Cessna airplanes, he
said. •
Nor would the military have to
catch every plane for the program to
be successful, Mr. Hunter said. "It's
like a freeway where everyone is
driving 100 miles an hour because
there are no cops."
The media also have misrepresented
the proposal by suggesting
that the military would have to shoot
down drug-carrying planes and
search illegal aliens at the borders,
Mr. Hunter said.
"Nobody has ever proposed that
we shoot down narcotics-carrying
aricraft," Mr. Hunter said. Nor does
the measure address drugs crossing
the border on the ground, he said.
FRF FPTEMBER19,1986
1 VSTATEMENT
OF SENATOR CHIC HECHT IN SUPPORT OP OMNIBUS DRUG ABUSE
PREVENTION LEGISLATION
Mr. President, I rise today to speak in opposition to something
which seems to have become a veritable American tradition; the
tolerance of wide spread drug abuse in our nation's schools.
Concurrently, Mr. President, I wish to express my steadfast
support for S. 2878, the Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986, of which I
am a cosponsor.
Mr. President, statistics show that nearly two thirds of our
American teenagers have used an illicit drug at some time before
their senior year of high school. A particularly unfortunate
aspect of this fact becomes more apparent when one considers that
drug use impairs the memory, alertness, and achievement of our
teenagers; with frequent users of marijuana earning below average
and failing grades twice as frequently as their classmates. How
will we be able to educate our young—the inheritors of our
nation—in an environment so clouded with the ill effects of drug
abuse?
Moreover, Mr. President, not only have many of our nation's
schools witnessed an increase in drug abusing students, but in
some cases these educational institutions have inadvertently come
to furnish a veritable free market in which drug dealers may
merchandise their goods. Drug transactions occurring on high
school campuses, in fact, have come to represent a significant
percentage of all drug sales to American teenagers. Even more
frightening is that statistics show a number of illegal drugs—
particularly marijuana—are used on school groundsl Students
provide the demand, drug dealers provide the supply, and in too
many cases, our schools provide a marketplace for this deadly
exchange.
Mr. President, in current attempts to curtail the use of drugs,
education programs have been implemented to reach young children
before they are exposed to drugs. These programs, however, are
not being taught in our junior high schools, as some might
imagine—no, the proliferation of drugs is too widespread for
pre-exposure programs to be successful at that late level—
rather, these programs are targeted at fourth and fifth graders.
In other words, Mr. President, the problem has become so great
that we must now fill the days of our 9 and 10 year-olds with the
harsh reality that they may face a near-term drug confrontation.
I wish to point out to my colleagues that the escalation of drug
abuse is shown not only by the number of this scourge's victims,
but may also be measured in the potency and availability of
today's illicit drugs. The purified form of cocaine known as
"crack", for example, has lead to a number of drug-related
deaths.
In closing, Mr. President, I would simply like to remind my
colleagues of the responsibility we all share to protect and
nurture our young people. Today, in America, the most serious
threat to our children is drug abuse. The continuing tolerance
and misconception of this nation's drug problem stand as
obstructions to the corrective action which must be undertaken if
we are to rescue our young people, our future, from this terrible
epidemic. Congress has an obligation to remove these
obstructions. To this end, I wholeheartedly support the omnibus
anti-drug measure introduced in the Senate, and urge my
colleagues to do the same.
S13404
Sec. 603. Domestic Release of USIA Material
on me?al Drues
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE
FIHDIHGS
Ssc. 102. THE CONGRESS FINDS AND DECLARES
THAT—
<a) Illegal drug use is having alarming and
tragic effects upon a significant proportion
of the national workforce and results in billions
of dollars of lost productivity each
year.
(b) Employers are concerned with the well
being of their employees, and the need to
maintain employee productivity.
(c) The Federal Government as the largest
employer in the nation can and should
show the way toward achieving drug-free
workplaces through a program designed to
get the message to drug users that drug use
will not be tolerated In the federal workplace.
(d) Drug use by persons responsible for
the safe transportation of people and goods
has the potential to cause the ioss of many
lives and millions of dollars of property
damage. Any harm created by drug impairment
can extend far beyond the harm
caused to the individual drug user.
SEC. 103. AMENDMENTS TO THE REHABILITATION
ACT.—
<a) Subparagraph (7)(B) of section 706 of
title 29. United SL&tes Code. Is ftznendedr
(i) by striking out ''Subject to the second
sentence of this subparagraph, the" in the
first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof
"The", and
(iiJ by striking out the second sentence
and Inserting in tieu thereof the foUowing:
"The term "handicapped individual, does
not Include any individual who uses, or is
addicted to. illegal drugs: Provided ftoiceucr.
That an individual who is otherwise handicapOTd
shall not be excluded from the protections
of this Act if he also uses or is also
addicted to drugs. For purposes of sections
793 and 794 of this title as such sections
relate to employment, the term "handicapped
individual, does not include any Individual
who is an alcoholic whose current use
of alcohol prevents such individual from
performing the duties of the job in question
or whose employment, by reason of such
current alcohol abuse, would constitute a
du^ threat to property or the safety of
others,"
tb) Section 706 of title 29, United States
Code. Is further amended by adding the following
new subsection to the end thereof;
"(16) The term. Illegal drugs, means controlled
substances, as defined by Schedules I
and II, section 802(6) of title 21. United
States Code, the possession of or distribution
of which is unlawful under chapter 13
of title 21, United States Code."
SEC. 104. AMENDMENT TO THE CIVIL SERVICE
REFORM ACT.—Section 2302 (b)(IO) of title
5, United States Code. Is amended by striking
out United States" and inserting in lieu
thereof;
"United States; and nothing in this paragraph
shall be construed to permit or require
the employment of an applicant or
employee who uses a controlled substance
as defined by Schedules I and II. section
802(6) of title 21, the possession of or distribution
of which is unlawful under chapter
13 of title 21."
SEC. 105. TECHNICAL AND CoNroRKiNo PaovisioNS.—(
a) The provisions of this Act
shall supersede any inconsistent federal law
rule or reguiaiton.
(b) This Act shall become effective on its
date of enactment and shall apply to any
pending litigation.
TITLE II-DRUG-PREE SCHOOLS ACT
OP 1986
SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the
"Drug-Free Schools Act of 1986 (The Zero-
Tolerance Act)",
FINDINGS
SEC. 202. Ttie Congress finds the following:
(1) Drug use Is widespread among American
students, not only in secondary schools,
but Increasingly in elementary schools as
well.
(2) The use of drugs by students constitutes
a grave threat to their physical and
mental well-being and significantly impedes
the teaming process.
(3) The tragic consequences of drug use by
students ore felt not only by the students
themselves and their families, but also by
their communities and their Nation, which
can ill afford to lose their skills, talents and
vitaiity.
<4) Among our cultural Institutions,
schools, assisted by parents and the community.
have a special responsibility to assist in
combating the scourge of drug use by adopting
and applying firm but fair drug policies.
(5) That prompt action by our Nation's
schools can bring us significantly closer to
the goal of a drug-free generation.
(6) Educational institutions should establish
clear policies to ensure that illegal drug
users will be held accountable for their actions.
(7) Drug testing in appropriate circumstances
is a diagnostic tool designed to
create a healthier educational environment,
increase productivity, improve public safety,
and protect fellow students, faculty and employees.
(8) Experience with drug testing has
shown that it can significantly contribute to
reducing the demand for illegal drugs while
protecting nondrug-using students, faculty
and employees from the harm caused by Illegal
drug users.
SE& 203. PURPOSE.-The purpose of this
Act is to assist State and local educational
agencies to establish a drug-free learning
environment within elementary and secondary
schools and to prevent drug use among
students in such schools.
SEC. 204. AUTHOR IEATIOH OF AFFR<^IAnoNs,—
For the purpose of carrying out thig
Act there are authorized to lie appropriated
$100,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 and such
sums as may be necessary for each of the
four succeeding fiscal years.
SEC. 205. RESERVATIONS AND ALLOTMENTS.
(a) From the funds appropriated under section
204 for any fiscal year, the Secretary
shall reserve 20 per centum for national programs
under section 210.
(bKl) From the remainder of the amount
appropriated to carry out this Act for each
fiscal year after the application of subsection
(a), the Secretary may reserve up to
one per centum for projects authorized by
this Act in Guam, American Samoa, the
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands,
and the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands;
(2) The Secretary shall allot the funds reserved
under paragraph (I) among Guam,
American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the
Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust
Territory of the Pacific I.slands according to
their respective need for assistance under
this Act.
(c)(1) Prom the remainder of the amount
appropriated to carry out this Act for each
fiscal year after the application of subsections
(a) and <b), the Secretary shall allot to
each State an wnount which bears the same
ratio to that remaining amount as the
number of children aged five to seventeen.
Inclusive. In the State bears to the number
September 23, 1986
of such children In all States. The number
of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive.
In a State and In all the Sutes shall be determined
by the Secretary on the basis of
the most recent available dau satisfactory
to the Secretary.
(2KA) The Secretary may reallot all or a
portion of the State's allotment for any
fiscal year if the State does not submit a
State application under section 206. or otherwise
indicates to the Secretary that It
does not need or cannot use the full amount
of its allotment for that fiscal year. The
Secretary may fix one or more dates during
a fiscal year upon which to make reallotments.
(B) The Secretary may reallot funds on a
competitive basis to one or more Slates that
demonstrate a current need for additional
funds under this Act, Any funds reailotied
to another State shall be deemed to be part
of its allotment for the fiscal year in which
the funds are reallotted.
<d) For the purpose of this section, the
term "State" does not Include Guam, American
Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern
Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands.
SEC. 206. STATE APPLICATIONS.—(a) Any
State desiring to receive a grant from funds
allotted under section 205 for any fiscal year
shall submit to the Secretary a State application
which meets the requirements of this
section.
(b) Each State application shall—
(1) covera period of three fiscal years;
(2) be submitted at the time and in the
manner spedfled by the Secretary; and
(3) contain whatever Information the Secretary
may reasonably require, including—
(A) assurances that—
(1) the State educational agency will be responsible
for the administration, including
supervision, of all State and local projecU
supported by the State's grant and shall
maintain whatever fiscal control and fund
accounting procedures are necessary to
ensure the proper disbursement of. and accounting
for, Federal funds paid to the
State under this Act;
<ii) the State educational agency will distribute
at least 90 per centum of its allotment
on a competitive basis to local educational
agencies to pay the Federal share of
the costs of local projects under section 208;
(ill) the State educational agency will provide
for continuing administrative direction
and control by a public agency over funds
under this Act used to benefit teachers,
school administrators, and students in private
nonprofit elementary and secondary
schools; and
(iv) no more than 5 per centum of the
amount allotted to a State under section
205(c) will be used for State administration;
and
(B) descriptions of—
<i) the priorities and goals the State has
selected for the use of funds under this Act
during the period of the State application;
(11) how. In establishing its priorities and
goals under the State plan, the State has
taken into account the needs of those public
and private nonprofit elementary and secondary
schools which desire to have their
teachers, school administrators, and students
participate in projects under this Act:
(ill) the procedures and criteria the State
will use to select local projects to be supported
under this Act from among the applications
received:
(iv) how parents, local educational agencies.
private nonprofit elementary and secondary
schools, law enforcement agencies,
the courts. State agencies engaged in preventing
drug abuse, drug and alcohol treatment
programs, and other interested comSeptember
23, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S13403
S. 2862. A bill for the relief of the Carollnas
Cotton Growers Association. Inc.; ordered
held at the desk.
By Mr. PACKWOOD (for himself, Mr.
BRAOIEY, Mr. DOLE, Mr. DECONCIMI.
Mr. DIXON. Mr. DT;RENBERGER. Mr.
OOLSWATER, Mr. HOLUNGS, Mr.
KERRY, Mr, LAUTEHBERG, Mr. MOYNIHAN.
Mr, PELL, and Mr, TKURMOHDI;
S,J, Res. 418. Joint resolution to designate
February 4, 1987, as '"National Women In
Sports Day": to the Committee on the Judiciary.
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
By Mr. DOLE (for himself. Mr.
DENTON, Mr, NICKLES. and Mr.
WARNER) (by request):
S, 2849. A bill to foster a drug-free
Federal workplace, to promote excellence
in American education by
achieving a drug-free environment in
our Nation's schools, to extend and
make - improvements in substance
abuse service programs, to strengthen
drug-interdiction efforts through
better international cooperation, to
enhance domestic law enforcement capabilities
in the war on illegal drugs,
to encourage and enhance the use of
private sector initiatives in a concerted
campaign of public education on the
dangers of illegal drug use, and for
other purposes; to the Committee on
the Judiciary.
PRUG-FREE AMLHICA ACT OF 1988
Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, on behalf
of the administration, I introduce an
omnibus anti-drug package, the Drug-
Free America Act of 1986.
I want to commend President
Reagan and all those in the executive
branch for putting together this
timely and thoughtful piece of legislation.
For many years, both the President
and Mrs. Reagan have shown
their conunitment to fighting drug
abuse. And this package is the culmination
of those efforts,
A number of the proposals contained
in the administration bill are included
as drafted, or modified, in the Senate
Republican drug package that was also
introduced today. And I feel confident
that many portions of the administration's
bill ultimately will appear in
drug legislation passed by Congress.
Mr. President, again, let me congratulate
the administration for its focused
and responsible approach to
fighting drug abuse. With the White
House, and both Houses of Congress
working together, we can come up
with the kind of national anti-drug
policies that will be effective both in
cost and results.
The bill is as follows:
S.2849
Be it enacted by the Senate and Howe of
Representatives of the United States of
America fn Congress assembled. That titles 1
through VI of this Act may be cited as "The
Drug-Free America Act of 1988".
TITLE I-DRUO FREE FEDERAL
WORKPLACE ACT OP 1988
THE DRCG-FREE AMERICA ACT OP 1088
TABLE OP CONTENTS
TITLE I-DRUG-PREE FEDERAL
WORKPLACE ACT OF 1986
Sec. 101. Title
Sec. 102. Findings
Sec. 103. Amendments to the Rehabilitation
Act
Sec. 104. Amendment to the Civil Service
Reform Act
Sec. 105. Technical and Conforming Provisions
TITLE II-DR0G-PREE SCHOOl^ ACT
OF 1988
Sec. 201. Titie
Sec. 202. Findings
Sec. 203. Purpose
Sec. 204. Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 205. Reservations and Allotments
Sec. 208. State Applications
Sec. 207. State Projects
Sec. 208. Local Projects
Sec. 209. Participation of Private School
Teachers, School Administrators
and Students
Sec. 210. National Programs
Sec. 211. Drug Testing in Educational Institutions
Sec. 212. Use of Funds
Sec. 213. Conforming Ameridments
Sec. 214, Definitions
Sec. 215. Effective Date
TITLE III-SUBSTANCE ABUSE
SERVICES AMENDMENTS OP 1986
Sec. 301. Title
Sec. 302. Extension of Block Grant
Sec. 303. Elimination of Certain Block
Grant Earmarks
TITLE IV-DRUG INTERDICTION AND
INTERNATIONAL COOPERAnON ACT
OF 1986
Subtitle A—International Forfeiture Enabling
Act of 1988
Subtitle B—Mansfield Amendment Repeal
Act of 1988
Subtitle C—Narcotic Traffickers Deportation
Act of 1986
Subtitle E>—Customs Enforcement Act of
1986
Subtitle E—Maritime Drug Law Enforcement
Prosecution Improvements
Act of 1986
TITLE V-ANTI-DRUG ENFORCEMENT
ACT OF 1986
Subtitle A—Drug Penalties Enhancement
Act of 1986
Subtitle B—Drug Possession Penalty Act of
1966
Subtitle C—Continuing Drug Enterprise
Penalty Act of 1986
Subtitle D—United States Marshals Service
Act of 1986
Subtitle E—Controlled Substances Import
and Export Penalties Ehihancement
Act of 1986
Subtitle F—Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act
of 1986
Subtitle G—Chemical Diversion and Trafficking
Act of 1986
Subtitle H—Money Laundering Crimes Act
of 1986
Subtitle I—Controlled Substances Technical
Amendments Act of 1986
Subtitle J—Controlled Substances Analogs
Elnforcement Act of 1986
Subtitle K—Asset Forfeiture Amendments
Act of 1986
Subtitle L~Exclu8ionary Rule Limitation
Act of 1986
TITLE VI-PUBLIC AWARENESS AND
PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES ACT
OF 1086
drug use. and for other purposes; to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. DOLE (for him.self. Mr. THURMOND.
Mr. ABDNOR. Mr. BROYHILL,
Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. D'AMATO. Mr.
DAKFORTH, Mr. DENTON, Mr. DOMEHtci,
Mr. GFTAMM, Mr. HATCH, Mrs.
HAWKINS. Mr. HEINZ, Mr. LAXALT.
Mr. LucAR. Mr. MArriNCLY. Mr. Mc-
Connell. Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. NICKLES.
Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. ROTH, Mr.
SIMPSON. Mr, SPECTER. Mr. STEVENS.
Mr. TRIBLE. Mr. WARNER, and Mr.
WILSONI;
S. 2850. A bill to strengthen and improve
the enforcement of the laws against Illegal
drugs, and for other purposes: read the first
time.
By Mr. HELMS (by request):
S. 2851. A bll) to amend the Federal Crop
Insurance Act to improve the administration
of such Act. and for other purposes; to
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry.
By Mr. TRIBLE;
8. 2852. A bill to authorize the Secretary
of Transportation to release restrictions on
the use of certain property conveyed to the
Peninsula Airport Commi^ion, Virginia, for
airport purposes: to the Committee on Commerce.
^ience. and Transportation.
By Mr. BROYHILL;
S. 2853. A bill to provide for reciprocity In
International trade in large electrical equipment;
to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. HEINZ;
S. 2854. A bill to authorize the donation of
certain non-federal iands to Gettysburg National
Military Park and to require a study
and report on the final development of the
park; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry.
By Mr. HEINZ from the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
S. 2855. An original bill to extend the expiration
date of the Defense Production Act
of 1950: placed on the calendar.
By Mr. HEINZ (for himself. Mr. ZORINSKY.
Mr. D'AMATO. and Mr. ANDREWS):
S. 2856. A bill to implement the United
States-European Communities Agreement
on Citrus and Pasta, and for other purposes;
to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. GRAMM (for himself. Mr.
NICKLES, Mr. MCCLDHE, Mr. DOLE.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. MORKOWSKI. Mr.
COCHRAN, Mr. HELMS. Mr. SIMPSON.
and Mr. WALLOP):
S. 2857. A bill to revitalize oil and gas production
in the United States: to the Committee
on Finance.
By Mr. D'AMATO:
S, 2858, A bill to prohibit United States
payments to the United Nations on or after
October I, 1987, unless certain United Nations
files have been made available to appropriate
law enforcement officials; to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
By Mr. MATSUNAGA:
S. 2859, A bill for the relief of Imelda Vlllanueva
Locquiao; to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
By Mr. MATSUNAGA:
S. 2860. A bill to amend the Tariff Act of
1930 regarding the customs administration
of duty-free sales enterprises; to the Committee
on Finance.
By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and
Mr. METZENSADM):
S. 2861. A bill to provide for research, education.
and Information dissemination concerning
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias;
to the Committee on Labor and
Human Resources.
By Mr, SIMPSON (for Mr. THURMONDI
(for himself, Mr. HELMS, Mr. HOLLINOS.
and Mr. BROYKILL):
SEC. 101. This Title may be cited as the
"Drug-Free Federal Workplace Act of 1986."
Sec. 601. Title
Sec. 602. Expedited Procedures for Obtaining
Volunteer Services
n$sp The National Association of SeG(ffl.(j9^^y ScUoo\ Principals
1904 Association Drive • Restonv Uirgjnia-?2p^,* Tel: 703-860^200
'3"^ SEP 26 hH 9 58
September 24, 1986
The Honorable Chic Hecht
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
This week the United States Senate will consider legislation designed to mount
an all-out war against drug abuse in our society--the Omnibus Anti-Drug bill,
I am writing to ask your support for an important initiative that Senators
Pressler and Boren will present to the Senate this week in the form of an
amendment. The amendment will express the sense of the Senate that motion
pictures depicting illicit drug use in a socially glamorous or attractive
manner be rated with a sub-category "D." The resolution calls upon the Motion
Picture Association of America to expand its present voluntary movie rating
system to include "D" so parents will be better informed about the content of
the movies their children attend.
The movie industry, as you know, is a powerful medium for public opinion, and
it is our deep concern that many films directed to the youth market depict the
use of drugs as sophisticated, even glamorous. An expanded rating system,
including a subcategory "D" will enable the entire public, and especially
parents to make more informed choices about the content of movies shown at
theaters across the nation.
The overall theme of the Omnibuis Anti-Drug bill is that all sectors of our
American society will be participating in the war against drugs. Certainly
schools have and will continue to play a key role in educating youth about the
dangerous life-threatening effects of illicit drug use. I hope you will agree
with us that the motion picture industry can also play a significant role in
our quest for a drug free society.
I urge you to join Senators Pressler and Boren in efforts to strengthen and
improve the Omnibuis Anti-Drug bill.
Sincerely yours,
Scott D. Thomson
Executive Director
Serving a l l Administrators m Secondary Education
WILLIAM L ARMSTRONG. RICHARD G LUGAR
CHAIRMAN JAMES A. MCCLURE
MARK ANDREWS CHARLES McC. MATHIAS. JH.
JOHN K. CKAFEE FRANK H. MURKOWSKI
THAO COCHRAN 609 PACKWOOD
JOHN C. OANFORTH mm •. M . . /m . WILLIAM V. ROTH. J«.
ROBERT DOLE mntf»h ALAN K SIMPSON
PETE V. DOMENICI WLWLV0 SCVllUW ROBERTT. STAFFORD
JAKE GARN STROM THURMOND
BARRY GOLOWATER REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE LOWELL P. WEICKER. JR.
ORRIN G. HATCH ,
MARK 0. HATFIELD RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING ROBERT EPOTTS
WASHINGTON. DC 20510 STAnomeciok
202-224-2946
September 24,1986
TO: Senate Republican Administrative Assistants. Legislative Directors, and
Committee Staff Directors
FROM: Bill Gribbin {x42946)
SUBJECT: Senate and House Drug Bills
Enclosed is a quick side-by-side of the Senate Republican drug bill, introduced on Monday,
September 22, by the Majority Leader and cosponsored by many Republican Senators, and H.R.
5484, which passed the House of Representatives on September 11.
You usually receive from the Policy Committee our Legislative Notice on bills reported from
committees. In this case, however, the legislation is on a fast track; and because of its
importance, we thought you would find useful this preliminary comparison.
The Senate Republican bill has three parts. The first comprises the Administration's
proposals, with certain exceptions, The second consists of anti-drug legislation which passed
the Senate during the last year and a half, during which the House was not active on this issue.
The third contains quite a few new proposals, including pieces of legislation already introduced
by Republican Senators.
While there are many points of agreement between the two bills, there are obvious
differences. The House bill is to a large extent a money bill, but it does not address the source
of Its new revenues.
Both bills modify the exclusionary rule and address the death penalty, though the Senate
provision is much broader. In addition, the Senate bill deals with habeas corpus and takes an
overall approach to sentencing more in accord with the work of the U.S. Sentencing
Commission.
As you know, the House bill provides for the extensive involvement of the Armed Forces in
border interdiction. The Senate bill provides for very limited use of the military In that regard.
There are important differences between the two bills regarding education, prevention, and
treatment, in its program of grants for drug treatment, the Senate bill bars funds to states which
decriminalize controlled substances. Moreover, the Senate bill addresses matters which were
not dealt with by the House: chemical diversion and trafficking, operation of common carriers
under influence, inhalants, highway safety and commercial licensing, problems with the Freedom
of information Act, special problems encountered by the U.S. Forest Service, and a voluntary
payment mechanism from tax refunds.
As matters develop, we hope to provide you with an update.
September 24, 1986
Senator Chick Hecht
U. S. Senate
Room SH-302
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
Based on my request, I am in receipt today of testimony given before the
Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 8,
1986. This was a hearing on the Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia bill. I
have a personal concern since I have a retail tobacco store and have been
trying to develop a small mail order business. Plus, I notice in the
bill that wooden and ceramic pipes, as well as some others, are in a
category of suspicion. It was this suspicion that prompted me to get
the testimony of the Chief Postal Inspector and the Assistant U. S.
Attorney General that testified on the bill. Please find their testimony
enclosed.
Did you know that the Post Office would not want this bill? Did you
know that the Post Office said that the definition would make enforcement
difficult? To quote the statement of Jack Swagert, "the listing
of prescribed items may include commercially available items which are
legitimately used for other than drug purposes." Finally, you will note,
that they don't even know who would be an expert to tell them what is
good or bad.
Look at page two of the Attorney General's statement titled "Problems
in Drug Paraphernalia Control." He voiced a number of concerns of vagueness
and broad definition like the Postal Inspector. While I personally
do everything within my power to oppose drugs, 1 think the Attorney
General is correct in saying, at the bottom of page two, that federal,
state and local resources are better used in our horrible national drug
problem. There is no drug paraphernalia. Senator, without drugs.
I am behind the elimination of drugs but please do not waste my tax
dollars on the issue of paraphernalia. As the Postal Inspector and
Attorney General agree, I think it is a waste of time.
Ends.
P.O.Box 111509 • 4121 Htllsboro Road • Nashville, TN 37222
SURTLARY OF
STATE?™ OF JACK E. SWAGERTY
ASSISTATIR CHIEF INSPEQOR - CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
ON H. R. 1625
BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME OF THE
HOUSE COMMITTE ON THE JUDICIARY
MAY 8, 1986
THE POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE IS THE INVESTIGATIVE ARM OF THE UNITED STATES
POSTAL SERVICE AND, AS SUCH, HAS INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY OVER ALL VIOLATIONS OF
FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW RELATING TO THE POSTAL SERVICE. POSTAL CRIMES INCLUDE THE
MISUSE OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM BY THE WILING OF BOMBS, PORNOGRAPHY, CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCES AND OTHER NON-MAILABLE ITE.MS.
POSTAL INSPECTORS BEGAN INVESTIGATING THE UNLAWFUL MAILING OF CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCES AND OTHER NON-MAILABLE ITEMS IN 1909 WHEN CONGRESS FIRST ENACTED
LEGISLATION DEALING WITH THIS TYPE OF ACTIVITY. TRADITIONALLY, OUR INVESTIGATIONS
INTO THE MAILING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS HAVE BEEN IN SUPPORT OF THE PRIMARY
ROLE OF THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AND THE U. S. CUSTOMS SERVICE.
THE POSTAL SERVICE SUPPORTS THE PURPOSES OF H.R. 1525. HOWEVER, IF THIS
LEGISLATION WERE ENACTED, OUR EFFORTS WOULD NOT BE DIRECTED TO ANY ATTEMPT TO
DETERMINE THE CONTENT OF MAIL BIH" RATHER TO IDENTIFYING PUBLISHED ADVERTISING
DIRECTED TOWARD THE SALE BY MAIL OF PROSCRIBED ITEMS AND TO THE INVESTIGATION OF
COMPLAINTS CONCERNING VIOLATIONS. AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT PERCEOTAGE
OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA SALES ARE CONDUCTED BY MAIL OR INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
THE POSTAL SERVICE IS CONCERNED WITH THREE PORTIONS OF THE BILL. FIRST, SECTION
102(A) SHOULD BE CLARIFIED AS TO WHETHER IT ALSO INTENDS TO COVER.THE MAILING OF
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE SALE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND'THE OFFERING FOR SALE OR
THE TRANSPORTATION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. SECONDLY, THE
DEFINITION OF "DRUG PARAPHERNALIA" MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUCH BROAD INTERPRETATION
THAT IT WOULD CAUSE ENFORCEMENT DIFFICULTIES. THE LISTING OF PROSCRIBED ITEMS
MAY INCLUDE COWERCIALLY AVAILABLE ITEMS WHICH ARE LEGITIMATELY USED FOR OTHER
THAN DRUG-CONNECTED PURPOSES. ALSO, WE ARE NOT AWARE OF READILY QUALIFIED
EXPERTS TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY AS TO WHETHER A PARTICULAR ITEM IS A PROSCRIBED ITEM
OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. OUR THIRD CONCERN IS THAT NO AGENCY IS SPECIFIED TO HAVE
THE SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE AUTHORITY DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (c). THIS AUTHORITY
SHOULD BE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED AND FORFEITURE PROVISIONS SHOULD BE CLEARLY
DEFINED.
STATEMENT
OF
JAMES KNAPP
DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
CRIMINAL DIVISION
BEFORE
THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
U.S. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES
CONCERNING
H.R. 1625
DRUG PARAPpRNALIA
ON
MAY 8, 1986
•n
Mr. Chalrraan and Members of the Subcommittee —
I welcome the opportunity to appear today to provide the
views of the Department of Justice with respect to legislation to
establish federal criminal Jurisdiction over traffic in drug
paraphernalia. We fully share the concerns of the sponsors of
H.R. 1625 with respect to the wide-spread availability of articles
designed for use by drug addicts. Some Items of drug paraphernalia
actually enhance the effects of controlled substances, thereby
rendering dangerous substances even'more dangerous — for example,
marijuana isomerlzation kits and cocaine free base kits. Other
items of drug paraphernalia are used to grow, process or facilitate
the use of dangerous drugs. Such products tend to glamorize
the use of illicit drugs and should, to the maximum extent practicable,
be eliminated. While further study of the paraphernalia
problem is advisable before enacting federal criminal paraphernalia
legislation, we are pursuing with the Postal Service possible"
non-criminal legislative measures for curbing interstate traffic
in drug paraphernalia.
PAST DRUG PARAPHERNALIA CONTROL EFFORTS
By way of background, the Drug Enforcement Administration
drafted the model drug paraphernalia act in 1979 and supported
this model state law with a model legal brief for use by state and
local prosecutors. DEA also produced explanations of the act,
provided legal assistance to the states and served as a national
clearinghouse for the anti-paraphernalia legislative effort. As
of today, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have
enacted this model act or a modificat^ion of the D^A model.
This effort in the late 1970*s represented a recognition on
the part of the Department of Justice that state and local governments
are in a better position than the federal government to deal
with the drug paraphernalia problem. In addition to the fact that
federal law enforcement agents represent less than 10% of the
total law enforcement resources in the United States, it has been
our view that state and local officials have traditionally had the
lead in dealing with massage parlors, pornography shops, and other
such questionable businesses which have much in common with the
"head shops" which deal in drug paraphernalia. It is our understanding,
for example, that at least one municipality has effectively
eliminated head shops through local zoning ordinances, a
means of control not available to federal authorities.
While most states have enacted the model drug paraphernalia
act, it is our impression that very few localities devote any
significant effort to enforcing these state laws. State laws have
generally had the effect of reducing the open sale of drug
paraphernalia, but information available to us indicates that drug
paraphernalia is still widely available virtually everywhere to
persons in the drug culture who know where to purchase it.
PROBLEMS IN DRUG PARAPHERNALIA CONTROL
Several possible explanations have been put forward for the
relatively Inactive state and local drug paraphernalia enforcement
effort.
First, definitions of drug paraphernalia are difficult to
write with the result that defendants who force prosecutors to go
to trial can claim that the Item of drug paraphernalia In question
is not, in fact, drug paraphernalia but rather an item Intended
for a lawful purpose. To make the case, therefore, the prosecutor
finds himself In need of an expert witness who can testify that
the Item or Items In question are Items of drug paraphernalia, the
sale of which Is prohibited by law. The simple fact is that very
few such expert witnesses are available. This raises the question
as to whether It might be cost-effective to undertake a national '
research effort aimed at the development of a national drug
paraphernalia manual and training program which could train
selected state agents as paraphernalia "experts" along the lines
of training provided to state officials who administer
"breathallzer" tests and then testify In court as to the results.
Such a research effort would likely be costly and further study is
advisable before undertaking such a project.
A second possible explanation for the minimal state and local
drug paraphernalia effort is that the definition of drug paraphernalia
used In the 1979 model act may be too broad. That act,
for example, attempts to cover spoons, straws, and "roach clips".
This effort can produce unintended results. It was found at one
point, for example, that the coffee stirrers qsed at McDonald's
restaurants Included a small spoon at one end whlAh was prized by
addicts for measuring out controlled substances. To their credit,
as soon as they found that their stirrers were being misused,
McDonald's re-deslgned their coffee stirrers. Straws pose a
similar problem as virtually any kind of straw — or even the
traditional rolled—up hundred dollar bill —- can be used to snort
cocaine. The alligator clips available In electronics stores are
easily substituted for the "roach clips" used by marijuana smokers
to get the last few drags off a marijuana cigarette without
burning the fingers of the user. In short, our review of the drug
paraphernalia Issue has led us to believe that we might be well
advised to focus law enforcement efforts upon "hard-core"
paraphernalia such as cocaine free base kits and marijuana
Isoraerlzatlon kits rather than trying to reach all Items
traditionally viewed as drug paraphernalia.
Third, some have questioned the value of attacking drug
paraphernalia at a time when federal, state, and local resources
are already strained in an effort to curb a massive national drug
problem. Obviously, most Items of drug paraphernalia pose no
danger without the availability of the controlled substances In
connection with which they are used. In making a choice as to
whether to devote enforcement efforts to attacking drugs or drug
paraphernalia, there would be general agreement that controlling
the Illicit drugs themselves should be the higher priority. Given
this fact, perhaps It Is unreasonable to expect vigorous state and
local enforcement of drug paraphernalia laws until such time as we
can begin to significantly reduce the traffic in illegal drugs, at
which point enhanced resources can be devoted to drug paraphernalia.
Finally, there Is some thought that the lack of any federal
drug paraphernalia control effort evidence a view on the part of
the national government that drug paraphernalia Is not an
important problem.
FEDERAL DRUG PARAPHERNALIA LEGISLATION
We can well understand the position of those who support
federal drug paraphernalia legislation. Moreover, the bill before
the subcommittee, H.R. 1625 (identical to S. 1407^ is a superior
product to prior federal legislative proposals in that It seeks to
limit federal jurisdiction to Interstate and mall order sales. We
have two specific reservations with respect to H.R. 1625. First,
by attempting to reach interstate as well as mall-order sales, the
bill inadvertently casts the brunt of the drug paraphernalia
problem upon federal authorities. Virtually every Item of drug
paraphernalia orglnates outside the state in which it is ultimately
sold. Second, the bill is too broad in scope. It attempts to
cover all items of drug paraphernalia. Including spoons, straws
and "roach clips" as well as any other item "primarily intended
or designed" for use in connection with drugs. The meaning of the
phrase "primarily intended or designed" is unclear and would be
difficult to apply in practice.
As we have indicated, we are working with the Postal Service
on draft legislation to attack the drug paraphernalia problem
using civil and administrative mechanisms.
Quite frankly, we have more questions than answers regarding
paraphernalia enforcement and are less than confident that we are
in a position to draft a federal drug paraphernalia statute that
will achieve the ends we all seek. For example, should we focus
only upon Items of drug paraphernalia that lend themselves to
characterization as "hard core" paraphernalia? If so, which items
belong in this category? Are drug paraphernalia enforcement
efforts doomed to failure in the absence of a "pharmacopoeia" or
manual on drug paraphernalia and a program for training expert
witnesses? Does state and local experience with drug paraphernalia
enforcement suggest more effective methods of dealing with
this problem? How much drug paraphernalia is sold over-thecounter,
by mail, and by interstate package services? And the
questions go on.
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September 25, 1986
Honorable Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
The National Conference of State Legislatures commends your efforts to
address the drug abuse crisis. NCSL recently approved policy supporting the
adoption of federal legislation designed to curtail the use of illegal drugs,
and we stand ready to work with Congress and the Administration in this
endeavor.
The members of NCSL, however, are concerned that federal legislation may be
drafted which unnecessarily preempts state and local statutes, poses
constitutional problems for many states, or imposes sanctions upon states.
Careful consideration must be given to the impact of federal initiatives on
state and local governments. We believe that incentives rather than sanctions
should be used to develop a spirit of cooperation and coordination between the
states and the federal government in this important area.
State legislatures have taken the lead in combating drug abuse by enacting
tough criminal laws and by funding treatment and education programs. We
recommend an improved federal partnership and support in this effort and urge
you to provide for full coordination in planning and program implementation at
the state level.
Federal drug legislation should include funds to enhance and expand state
education, social service, and law enforcement programs. We urge you to provide
maximum flexibility to the states in administering those programs and in
allocating the funds provided. In addition, mandates and restrictive grant
conditions, especially in the areas of curriculum and treatment, should be
avoided. Any requirements imposed upon state and local governments should be
fully funded.
Denver Office: 1050 17th Street • Suite 2100 • Denver. Colorado 80265 • 303/623-7800
Again, we commend your efforts in this critical area, and pledge our
continued support and cooperation in addressing the drug abuse crisis. We look
forward to working with you in developing and implementing legislation that will
eliminate this problem.
Sincerely,
David E. Nething /
Majority Leader
North Dakota Senate
President, NCSL
STATEMENT OF SENATOR CHIC HECHT ON DCIIALr OF OMNIBUS DRUG ABUSE
PREVENTION LEGISLATION
Mr, President, I rise today to speak in opposition to something
which seems to have become a veritable American tradition; the
tolerance of wide spread drug abuse in our nation's schools.
Concurrently, Mr. President, I wish to express my steadfast
support for S. 2850, the Drug Abuse Prevention package, of which
I am a cosponsor,
Mr, President, statistics show that nearly two thirds of our
American teenagers have used an illicit drug at some time before
their senior year of high school. A particularly unfortunate
aspect of this fact becomes more apparent when one considers that
drug use impairs the memory, alertness, and achievement of our
teenagers; with frequent users of marijuana earning below average
and failing grades twice as frequently as their classmates. How
will we be able to educate our young—the inheritors of our
nation—in an environment so clouded with the ill effects of drug
abuse?
Moreover, Mr. president, not only have many of our nation's
schools witnessed an increase in drug abusing students, but in
some cases these educational institutions have inadvertently come
to furnish a veritable free market in which drug dealers may
merchandise their goods. Drug transactions occurring on high
school campuses, in fact, have come to represent a significant
percentage of all drug^ sales to American teenagers. Even more
frightening is that statistics show a number of illegal drugs—
particularly marijuana—are used on school grounds I Students
provide the demand, drug dealers provide the supply, and in too
many cases, our schools provide a marketplace for this deadly
exchange.
Mr. President, in current attempts to curtail the use of drugs,
education programs have been implemented to reach young children
before they are exposed to drugs. These programs, however, are
not being taught in our junior high schools, as some might
imagine—no, the proliferation of drugs is too widespread for
pre-exposure programs to be successful at that late level—
rather, these programs are targeted at fourth and fifth graders.
In other words, Mr. president, the problem has become so great
that we must now fill the days of our 9 and 10 year-olds with the
harsh reality that they may face a near-terra drug confrontation.
I wish to point out to my colleagues that the escala_t^n of drug
abuse is shown not only by the number of this(^courgeJ^^victims,
but may also be measured in the potency and availability of
today's illicit drugs. The purified form of cocaine known as
"crack", for example, has lead to a large number of drug-related
deaths.
in closing, Mr. President, I would simply like to remind my
colleagues of the responsibility we all share to protect and
nurture our young people. Today, in America, the roost serious
threat to our children is drug abuse. The continuing tolerance
and misconception of this nation's drug problem stand as
obstructions to the corrective action which must be undertaken if
we are to rescue our young people, our future, from this terrible
epidemic. Congress has an obligation to remove these
obstructions. To this end, I wholeheartedly support the omnibus
anti-drug measure introduced in the Senate, and urge my
colleagues to do the same.
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STATEMENT OF SENATOR CHIC HECHT ON BEHALF OF OMNIBUS DRUG ABUSE
PREVENTION LEGISLATION
Mr. President, I rise today to speak in opposition to something
which seems to have become a veritable American tradition; the
tolerance of wide spread drug abuse in our nation's schools.
Concurrently, Mr. President, I wish to express my steadfast
support for the Drug Abuse Prevention package intpoduood today,
-aftd of which I am a cosponsor.
Mr. President, statistics show that two thirds of our American
teenagers have used an illicit drug at some time before their
senior year of high school. A particularly unfortunate aspect of
this fact becomes more apparent when one considers that drug use
impairs the memory, alertness, and achievement of our teenagers;
with frequent users of marijuana earning below average and
failing grades twice as frequently as their classmates. How will
we be able to educate our young—the inheritors of our nation—in
an environment so clouded with drug abuse?
Moreover, Mr. President, not only have our schools become a
refuge for drug abusers, but they inadvertently seem to furnish a
veritable free market in which drug dealers may merchandise their
goods. Drug sales occurring on high school campuses represent 57
percent of the drugs sold to American teenagers. An even more
frightening statistic is that one third of these drugs never make
it off campus before they are usedi Students provide the demand,
drug dealers provide the supply, and in too many cases, our
schools provide a sanctuary for this deadly exchange.
Mr. President, in current attempts to curtail the use of drugs,
education programs have been implemented to reach young children
before they are exposed to drugs. These programs, however, are
not being taught in our junior high schools, as some might
imagine—no, the proliferation of drugs is too widespread for
pre-exposure programs to be successful at that late level—
rather, these programs are targeted at fourth and fifth graders.
In other words, Mr. President, the problem has become so great
that we must now fill the days of our 9 and 10 year-olds with the
harsh reality of a possible near-term drug confrontation.
I wish to point out to my colleagues that the escalation of drug
abuse is shown not only by the number of this scourge's victims,
but also may be measured in the potency and availability of
today's illicit drugs. The purified form of cocaine known as
"crack",, for example, has lead to a large number of drug-related
deaths.
In closing, Mr. president, I would simply like to remind my
colleagues of the responsibility we all share to protect and
nurture our children. Today, in America, the most serious threat
to our children is drug abuse. The continuing tolerance and
misconception of this nation's drug problem stand as obstructions
to the corrective action which must be undertaken if we are to
rescue our young people, our future, from this terrible epidemic.
Congress has an obligation to remove these obstructions. To this
end, I wholeheartedly support the anti-drug measure introduced in
the Senate today, and urge my colleagues to do the same.
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M r . P r e s i d e n t , I r i s e t o d a y t o s p e a k i n o p p o s i t i o n t o s o m e t h i n g
w h i c h s e e m s t o h a v e b e c o m e a v e r i t a b l e A m e r i c a n t r a d i t i o n ; t h e
t o l e r a n c e o f w i d e s p r e a d d r u g a b u s e i n o u r n a t i o n ' s s c h o o l s .
C o n c u r r e n t l y , M r . P r e s i d e n t , I w i s h t o e x p r e s s m y s t e a d f a s t
s u p p o r t f o r t h e D r u g A b u s e P r e v e n t i o n p a c k a g e i n t r o d u c e d t o d a y ,
a n d o f w h i c h I a m a c o s p o n s o r .
M r . P r e s i d e n t , s t a t i s t i c s s h o w t h a t t w o t h i r d s o f o u r A m e r i c a n
t e e n a g e r s h a v e u s e d a n i l l i c i t d r u g a t s o m e t i m e b e f o r e t h e i r
s e n i o r y e a r o f h i g h s c h o o l . A p a r t i c u l a r l y u n f o r t u n a t e a s p e c t o f
t h i s f a c t b e c o m e s m o r e a p p a r e n t w h e n o n e c o n s i d e r s t h a t d r u g u s e
i m p a i r s t h e m e m o r y , a l e r t n e s s , a n d a c h i e v e m e n t o f o u r t e e n a g e r s ;
w i t h f r e q u e n t u s e r s o f m a r i j u a n a e a r n i n g b e l o w a v e r a g e a n d
f a i l i n g g r a d e s t w i c e a s f r e q u e n t l y a s t h e i r c l a s s m a t e s . H o w w i l l
w e b e a b l e t o e d u c a t e o u r y o u n g - - t h e i n h e r i t o r s o f o u r n a t i o n - - i n
a n e n v i r o n m e n t s o c l o u d e d w i t h d r u g a b u s e ?
M o r e o v e r , M r . P r e s i d e n t , n o t o n l y h a v e o u r s c h o o l s b e c o m e a
r e f u g e f o r d r u g a b u s e r s , b u t t h e y i n a d v e r t e n t l y s e e m t o f u r n i s h a
v e r i t a b l e f r e e m a r k e t i n w h i c h d r u g d e a l e r s m a y m e r c h a n d i s e t h e i r
g o o d s . D r u g s a l e s o c c u r r i n g o n h i g h s c h o o l c a m p u s e s r e p r e s e n t 5 7
p e r c e n t o f t h e d r u g s s o l d t o A m e r i c a n t e e n a g e r s . A n e v e n m o r e
f r i g h t e n i n g s t a t i s t i c i s t h at o n e t h i r d o f t h e s e d r u g s n e v e r m a k e
i t o f f c a m p u s b e f o r e t h e y a r e u s e d ! S t u d e n t s p r o v i d e t h e d e m a n d ,
d r u g d e a l e r s p r o v i d e t h e s u p p l y , a n d i n t o o m a n y c a s e s , o u r
s c h o o l s p r o v i d e a s a n c t u a r y f o r t h i s d e a d l y e x c h a n g e .
M r . P r e s i d e n t , i n c u r r e n t a t t e m p t s t o c u r t a i l t h e u s e o f d r u g s ,
e d u c a t i o n p r o g r a m s h a v e b e e n i m p l e m e n t e d t o r e a c h y o u n g c h i l d r e n
b e f o r e t h e y a r e e x p o s e d t o d r u g s . T h e s e p r o g r a m s , h o w e v e r , a r e
n o t b e i n g t a u g h t i n o u r j u n i o r h i g h s c h o o l s , a s s o m e m i g h t
i m a g i n e - - n o , t h e p r o l i f e r a t i o n o f d r u g s i s t o o w i d e s p r e a d f o r
p r e - e x p o s u r e p r o g r a m s t o b e s u c c e s s f u l a t t h a t l a t e l e v e l - -
r a t h e r , t h e s e p r o g r a m s a r e t a r g e t e d a t f o u r t h a n d f i f t h g r a d e r s .
I n o t h e r w o r d s , M r . P r e s i d e n t , t h e p r o b l e m h a s b e c o m e s o g r e a t
t h a t w e m u s t n o w f i l l t h e d a y s o f o u r 9 a n d 1 0 y e a r - o l d s w i t h t h e
h a r s h r e a l i t y o f a p o s s i b l e n e a r - t e r m d r u g c o n f r o n t a t i o n .
I w i s h t o p o i n t o u t t o m y c o l l e a g u e s t h a t t h e e s c a l a t i o n o f d r u g
a b u s e i s s h o w n n o t o n l y b y t h e n u m b e r o f t h i s s c o u r g e ' s v i c t i m s ,
b u t a l s o m a y b e m e a s u r e d i n t h e p o t e n c y a n d a v a i l a b i l i t y o f
t o d a y ' s i l l i c i t d r u g s . T h e p u r i f i e d f o r m o f c o c a i n e k n o w n a s
" c r a c k " , f o r e x a m p l e , h a s l e a d t o a l a r g e n u m b e r o f d r u g - r e l a t e d
d e a t h s .
I n c l o s i n g , M r . P r e s i d e n t , I w o u l d s i m p l y l i k e t o r e m i n d m y
c o l l e a g u e s o f t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y w e a l l s h a r e t o p r o t e c t a n d
n u r t u r e o u r c h i l d r e n . T o d a y , i n A m e r i c a , t h e m o s t s e r i o u s t h r e a t
t o o u r c h i l d r e n i s d r u g a b u s e . T h e c o n t i n u i n g t o l e r a n c e a n d
m i s c o n c e p t i o n o f t h i s n a t i o n ' s d r u g p r o b l e m s t a n d a s o b s t r u c t i o n s
t o t h e c o r r e c t i v e a c t i o n w h i c h m u s t b e u n d e r t a k e n i f w e a r e t o
r e s c u e o u r y o u n g p e o p l e , o u r f u t u r e , f r o m t h i s t e r r i b l e e p i d e m i c .
C o n g r e s s h a s a n o b l i g a t i o n t o r e m o v e t h e s e o b s t r u c t i o n s . T o t h i s
e n d , I w h o l e h e a r t e d l y s u p p o r t t h e a n t i - d r u g m e a s u r e i n t r o d u c e d i n
t h e S e n a t e t o d a y , a n d u r g e m y c o l l e a g u e s t o d o t h e s a m e .
DANIEL E. LUNGREN
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SEPTEMBER 25, 1986
LUNGREN ASSAILS THE "TIMOTHY LEARY" BAIL-OUT AMENDMENT
MR. SPEAKER: AS I INDICATED IN THE DEBATE ON THE OMNIBUS DRUG
BILL LAST WEEK, AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS PROVISION WAS SLIPPED INTO THE
TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS THAT WILL ALLOW ANY REGISTRANT WITH A P.H.D. OR
M.D. BEHIND THEIR NAME TO INGEST OR PROVIDE FOR THEIR SPOUSES FRIENDS
AND EVEN STUDENTS SOME OF THE MOST POTENT SUBSTANCES KNOWN TO MAN.
SOME OF THESE DESIGNER DRUGS ARE 5000 TIMES THE STRENGTH OF MORPHINE
OR ABOUT 2500 TIMES THE STRENGTH OF HEROINE.
THIS PROVISION WAS MISREPRESENTED TO THE RULES COMMITTEE AS
NONTECHNICAL LANGUAGE SOMEHOW NECESSARY TO LEGITIMATE RESEARCH, AND
WAS SLIPPED INTO THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE ON THAT BASIS.
I SHOULD ADD THAT THE ONLY TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROVISION
BEFORE OUR SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME WAS OFFERED BY DR. LESTER GRINSPOON
OF HARVARD. HE ATTEMPTED TO PERSUADE THE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT HIS REAL
CONCERN WAS WITH RESEARCH. HOWEVER THERE WERE THOSE OF US WHO
REMAINED SKEPTICAL IN THAT THE DESIGNER DRUG LEGISLATION THAT I FIRST
OFFERED AND THE SUBSEQUENT SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE BILLS WERE
CAREFULLY CRAFTED TO AVOID ANY INTERFERENCE WITH LEGITIMATE RESEARCH.
BUT DR. GRINSPOON ARGUED THAT ANY ANIMAL TESTING FOR TOXICITY OR THE
REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE A RESEARCH PROTOCOL UNDER SCHEDULE I WAS TOO
BURDENSOME.
IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT DR. GRINSPOON AND HIS SMALL GROUP OF FOLLOWERS
HAVE A BROADER AGENDA. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THE ONLY
VOICE FOR THIS PRO DRUG TRAFFICKING PROVISION IN OUR HOUSE DRUG BILL
SITS ON THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE REFORM
OF MARIJUANA LAWS (NORML). IN SHORT, THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, THE
RULES COMMITTEE AND THIS HOUSE "HAVE BEEN HAD." IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT
THIS PRO DRUG ABUSE PROVISION BE REMOVED FROM THE BILL IN CONFERENCE.
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
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Office of the Asnstant Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20530
September 25* 1986
Honorable Chic Hecht
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
After the Senate begins consideration of the drug bill on
Thursday or Friday, we understand that an amendment will be
offered by Democratic Senators to create a national "drug czar,"
We believe that this amendment will be the same as, or quite
similar to, S. 2716, a free-standing bill Introduced In early
August, 1986.
Such an amendment would be a direct, partisan slap at the
President, the Vice President and everyone in the Administration,
Including the Cabinet Members on the National Drug Enforcement
Policy Board, who are working to solve our nation's drug problem,
A similar bill was vetoed by the President In 1983. I enclose a
letter to Senator Dole, dated September 10, 1986, that sets forth
our objections In more detail.
We strongly oppose the "drug czar" amendment. We would be
more than happy to provide any additional Information you may
desire.
Sincerely
J^ohn R. Bolton
Assistant Attorney General
Enclosure
Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Assisunt Attorney General Wasfiington, D.C. 20SSO
10 SEP 1988 0
Honorable Robert Dole
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Dole:
This is to Invite your attention to a very troublesome bill,
S. 2716, which may be offered as an amendment to drug enforcement
legislation. This proposal seeks to revive the "drug czar" issue
which resulted in the President's disapproval of H.R. 3963 of the
97th Congress.
By way of background, legislation proposing creation of a
"drug czar" was approved, without hearings or significant
consideration, as a part of H.R. 3963 in late 1982. As the
President believed that this legislation would undermine rather
than enhance federal drug enforcement efforts, he disapproved the
bill. A copy of his Statement of Disapproval is enclosed for
ready reference.
During the 98th Congress, we worked at length with Senators
Thurmond and Biden and agreed to a compromise, enacted as part of
the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 198^1, which created the
National Drug Enforcement Policy Board charged with the mission of
developing a national drug enforcement strategy and of
coordinating federal drug enforcement efforts. The Board, chaired
by the Attorney General and comprised of several Cabinet-level
officials including the Secretaries of the Treasury, State,
Defense, and Transportation, was thus created on October 12, 1984
and held its first meeting in early 1985. Since that time, the
Board has strived to carry out its mandate and has, we believe,
made Important progress toward the coordination and Integration of
federal drug enforcement activities.
Honorable Robert Dole
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September 1, 1986
The effect of approving S. 2716 would be to repudiate
the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board within leas than
two years of its having been created by Congress. We would
hope that any such effort In the Senate will be strenuously
resisted. In the meantime, I wanted to be certain that you
know of the depth of feeling which S. 2716 elicits among the
federal law enforcement community. We vigorously oppose S.
2716 and sincerely believe that its approval would be
counter-productive to our common goal of enhanced drug
enforcement. In short, should S. 2716 be approved by the
Congress, we would be constrained to urge the President to
disapprove It.
Sincerely,
John R. Bolton
Assistant Attorney General
Enclosure
THE WHITE HOUSE
Offic* of the Fr«s« E*er«tkry
ror I««di.te tel.... '""'y "•
NEHOItXMDUH DJSAFPftOVAL
1 an withholding »y approval of H.R. 3#63» • bill
concerning criminal law mattera, bacauae ita diaadvantagea
far outweigh any intended benefita.
In late September 19B2, the Senate overwhelmingly
approved a major crime bill by a vote of to 1. That
measure, the Violent Crime and Drug Enforcement Improvements
Act of 1982 (S. 2572), would have resulted in urgently needed
reforms in Federal bail laws to put an end to our 'revolving
door* system of justice, comprehensive reforms in Federal
forfeiture laws to strip away the enormous assets and profits
of narcotics traffickers and organised crime syndicates, and
sweeping sentencing reforms to insure more uniform, determinate
prison sentences for those convicted of Federal crimes.
That major crime bill also contained other criminal law reforms.
X strongly supported the principal elements of the Violent Crime
and Drug Enforcement Improvements Act, especially the bail,
sentencing, and forfeiture provisions.
The House of Representatives failed to approve this
measure. It adopted a miscellaneous assortment of criminal
justice proposals, H.R. 3963, which was approved in the
waning hours of the 97th Congress. Although some elements of the
House-initiated bill are good, other provisions are misguided
or seriously flawed, possibly even unconstitutional. While
its previsions on forfeiture of criminal assets and profits
fall short of what the Administration proposed, they are clearly
desirable. Had they been presented to me as a separate measure,
I would have been pleased to give my approval. But H.R. 3963
does not deal with bail reform, nor does it address sentencing
reform. Both are subjects long overdue for congressional action.
In addition to its failure to address some of the most
serious problems facing Feder-al law enforcement, this 'mini-crime
bill* wpuld in several respects hamper existing enforcement
ectlvity. I am particularly concerned ebout its edvcrse impact
on our efforts to combat drug abuse.
The Act would create a drug director and a new bureaucrecy
within the Executive Branch with the power to coordinate end
direct all domestic and international Federal drug efforts,
including law enforcement operation!. The creation of another
layer of bureaucrecy within the Executive Branch would produce
friction, disrupt effective law enforcement, and could threaten
the Integrity of criminal investigations and prosecutions —
the very opposite of what ita proponent! apparently intend.
The acriousnese of thla threat is underscored by the
overwhelming opposltlOB to thie provision by the Federal law
enforcement community as well as by such groups as the
Internetionel Association of Chiafa of Folice and the National
Association of Attorney's General. «»e ao-called 'drug Csar*
mora
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MOvlsioB was snactsd hastily without thoughtful «#bata
and without bansfit of any hsarlngs. Although Its aim --
with which Z am in full agreemant — la to promota coordinatiM.
this can ba and is balng achiavad through existing administratlva
atructuras.
Ooon taking offlea, X diractad the Attorney General and ether
senior officials of the Administration to Improve the
coordination and efficiency of federal law
with particular emphasis on drug-related crime. *hls has been
accomplished through the establishment of the Cabinet Council on
UgaT Policy, which is chaired by the Attorney General and whose
M^etship Includes all Cabinet officers with responsibility for
narcotics law enforcement. Working through the Cabinet Council^
the White House Office on Drug Policy is an integral part of the
process by which a comprehensive and coordinated narcotics
enforcement policy Is carried out.
I am pleased with the results of this process, which lest Fell
led to the creation of a netlonwide task force effort to combat
olganiaed crime and narcotica trafficking. The war ©J crime end
druQB does not need mote bureaucracy in Washington. It d^s need
M>re action in the field, and that ia where my Administration
will focus its efforts.
B B 3963 would also authorise the Federal prosecution of an
armed robber or burglar who has twice been convicted in State
court. Thie proviaion includes an unworkable and
unconatitutlonal restraint upon Federal prosecutions in this
area by allowing e State or local prosecutor to veto any Federal
prosecution under his or her authority, aven if the Attorney
General had approved the prosecution. Such a raatraint on
Federal prosecutorial discretion end the delegation of ^ecutive
responsibility it entsils rsiss grave constitutional and
practical concerns. It would, for Bxsmple. surely
friction among Federal, State, end local prosecutors at a time
when we are doing ao much to decraase it.
Other provisions of H.R. 3963 ere also defective. For
example, thi provision that expends Federal jurisdiction whenwer
food, drugs, or other products are tampered with, en expansion
ihat 1 st?o;gly support, was drafted to
occurs in en injured consumer's own home. It also falls to
distinguish between.tampering.that resulta in injury and
tampering that results in death. These are, however, essentially
technicil matters which might have been overcome but for the
press of time in the closing days of Congress. I share the
Widespread public desira for new legislation on tampering and
will work with the new Congress to produce en acceptable bill
on that subject.
My Administration has proposed slgnlflcsnt ^
strengthen lew enforcement and restora the balance between the
forces of Xsw snd the forces oi crime. Changes in _
ball laws, the excluaionary rule, the insanity ^«'®"®'
substantive reforms in crimlhel law were not passed by the »7th
Congress. Such reforms. If enscted, could make e reel
difference In the quality of Justice in this country.
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I Bl*asuzs to to spprove
It would h»v» '5_-4,?,tlon. X cor^letuly uupport
,ub»t*ntlve 3513, ,uch «s the Federal lntelli»eace
•OM o£ the leaturea of B.R. 3»»^. with in principle.
peraonnel ®Vthia bill 'sr-'atly outweigh Ita benellta.
but the diaadvantagea of thla biw 9^^^ contain
X look forward to ® ...nt bill. *»d wy hdainistration.
Jhe -'i?- ?Jai«.^ Thu^LJd aid Cbalrwan Bodino
BOMAU) REAGAN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
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VOL VI, No. 7, September 26, 1986
The Crusade Against Drug Abuse
"We seek to create a massive change in national attitudes which ultimately
will separate the drugs from the customer, to take the user away from the
supply. I helieve quite simply, that we can help them quit....My
generation will remember how America swung into action when we were
attacked in World War II....Now, we're in another war for our freedom, and
it's time for all of us to pull together again."
President Reagan
"Drugs steal away so much. They take and take, until finally every time a
drug goes into a child, something else is forced out, like love and hope
and trust and confidence. Drugs take away the dream from every child's
heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand
up and replace those dreams."
Nancy Reagan
In an unprecedented move, the President and Mrs. Reagan took their message to
the American people on Sept. 14 in a televised appeal for support in the
crusade against drug abuse.
The Crusade for a Drug-Free America
Drug abuse was a major national problem when President Reagan took office and
fighting this problem became one the earliest priorities of his administration.
• In 1982, President Reagan announced a comprehensive strategy to stop drug
abuse and drug trafficking through international cooperation, drug law
enforcement, drug abuse prevention, treatment and research.
• The First Lady also began a major program in 1981 to increase public
awareness of the dangers of drug abuse and to get people involved in
helping young people "Just Say No" to drugs.
However, while gains have been made, drug abuse remains one of the most acute
crises facing our nation today.
Reagan Redoubles Efforts
The President redoubled his efforts to fight drug abuse when he announced,
Sept. 15, additional proposals toward achieving the goal of a drug-free
America.
These include an executive order, budget proposals and an omnibus bill aimed
at eliminating illegal drugs from our workplaces; eliminating drug abuse from
our schools; providing effective treatment for those suffering from past drug
abuse; improving international cooperation to stop the in-flow of illegal
drugs; further strengthening law enforcement; and increasing public awareness
and drug abuse prevention.
The President's new initiatives call for almost $900 million in additional
resources targeted to ridding our society of drugs. This would bring the
total federal contribution to more than $3 billion for FY 1987. These budget
proposals would not allocate new funds; rather, resources within the existing
federal budget would be redirected.
An Executive Order to Achieve a Drug-Free Federal Workplace
Consistent with his authority as President and as head of America's largest
employer (2.8 million civilian employees), the President, Sept. 15, signed an
executive order establishing a policy against the use of illegal drugs by
federal employees, whether on-duty or off-duty.
The order calls for procedures that will achieve a drug-free workplace while
protecting the rights of the employee. The order also authorizes the use of
drug testing programs as a diagnostic tool to identify drug use in certain
circumstances.
• The head of an agency must establish a testing program for employees in
sensitive positions based on the agency's mission, the employees' duties,
and the potential consequences of employee drug use to public health and
safety or to national security.
• The head of an agency may order the testing of any employee (1) when there
is a reasonable suspicion that the employee uses illegal drugs, (2) as
part of an investigation of an accident or unsafe practice, and (3) as
part of or as a follow-up to counseling or rehabilitation through an
employee assistance program.
• Voluntary testing programs will be established for employees in
non-sensitive positions. Applicants will be tested at the discretion of
the hiring agency.
The head of an agency must develop plans for a drug-free workplace which must
include an employee assistance program emphasizing education, counseling
referral to rehabilitation and coordination with community resources. *
Employees must be given notification 60 days prior to the start of testing
and confidentiality will be protected. Users of Illegal drugs will be subiect
to appropriate disciplinary actions unless they voluntarily seek assistance
The Drug-Free America Act of 1986: Cornerstone of Drug Abuse Efforts
The Drug-Free America Act of 1986, according to the President, "is one of the
most important, and one of the most critically needed, pieces of legislation
that my administration has proposed."
The President is strongly committed to the passage of the proposed bill, which
will be the cornerstone of the administration's anti-drug effort, before
adjournment of Congress for the year. The bill is composed of six areas of
legislation.
1. The Drug-Free Federal Workplace Act of 1986, together with the
President's Executive Order, would assist the federal government to
set an example for all employers to provide drug-free workplaces. It
would make clear that the use of illegal drugs by current or
prospective federal employees will not be tolerated.
2. The Drug-Free Schools Act of 1986 would authorize JlOO million to
assist state and local governments in establishing drug-free learning
environments in elementary and secondary schools.
3. The Substance Abuse Services Amendments of 1986 would respond to
the grave health threat presented by the use of illegal drugs. Block
grants would be extended from FY 1988 to FY 1992 to states for
alcohol, drug and mental health programs, and would eliminate several
unnecessary restrictions in current law that limit the flexibility of
the states in putting the funds to work where they are most needed.
4. The Drug Interdiction and International Cooperation Act of 1986
would emphasize the need for greater international cooperation in the
fight against drugs. This would improve procedures used in seizing
the proceeds of narcotics-related crimes committed in other
countriesj facilitate deportation of illegal aliens involved in drug
trafficking; significantly strengthen U.S. Customs laws in order to
curtail drug smuggling; and amend the authority of the Coast Guard to
stop and board vessels for violations of U.S. drug laws.
5. The Anti-Drug Enforcement Act of 1986 would strengthen the ability
of our law enforcement personnel and courts to ensure that those
convicted of illegal drug offenses are suitably punished and deprived
of the profits of their crime.
6. The Public Awareness and Private Sector Initiatives Act of 1986
would remove the statutory impediments for increased cooperation
between the private sector and the government in educating the public
about the hazards of drug abuse.
Drug Abuse: The Facts
According to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration:
• There are about 500,000 hard-core heroin users in the U.S.
• Between 4 and 5 million Americans use cocaine at least once a month.
Approximately 21.6 million have tried the drug at least once.
• Among 18-25 year olds, 28 percent have tried cocaine.
• From 1975 to 1984, the amount of cocaine smuggled into the U.S.
quadrupled. In 1984 10 tons of heroin, 85 tons of cocaine, and about
15,000 tons of marijuana were brought into the U.S.
Drugs in Schools
Drug use is running rampant in our schools — and not just at the high school
level. Tragically, many school districts and police departments say drug
education programs aimed at 12-year-olds are already too late and should begin
at the kindergarten level.
• Experts say most first-time experience with drugs now occurs before high
school.
• In 1985, 61 percent of all high school seniors, about 2 million people,
had tried at least one or more illicit drugs; 41 percent had used drugs
other than marijuana. One out of every 20 high school seniors smokes
marijuana daily. Among 12-17 year olds, more than 6 million have used it
at least once.
• Among high school seniors, cocaine use has dramatically risen. In 1985,
17 percent had tried the drug. Among 1985 high school seniors who said
they had used cocaine in the past year, 22 percent said they used it in
school. Among 12-13 year olds, about 60,000 have tried cocaine.
• Almost one-third of New York's seventh graders admit to having used
illegal drugs.
• Drop out rates are clearly associated with frequent drug usage.
Drugs on the Job
• Estimates vary from 10 percent to 23 percent on how many workers use drugs
on the job. It is impossible to estimate accurately the dollar cost of
the harm they do in mistakes, damage and human suffering.
• Drug abusers are three times as likely as non-users to injure themselves
or a co-worker on the job.
• Drug-using workers are 28 percent less productive than their peers.
Reagan's Commitment to Winning the Battle
President Reagan has emphasized the need to help drug abusers regain control
of their lives, punish pushers and stop the flow of drugs to the United
States. The administration already made great strides toward this goal:
• Thirty-seven federal agencies are working together in this vigorous
national effort.
• Under the Reagan Administration, federal spending for drug law enforcement
will virtually triple — from little over $700 million in FT 1981 to an
anticipated $2.1 billion in FY 1987.
• The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces were established under
the Attorney General in 1982 to attack drug trafficking by major criminal
organizations.
• In 1982, the President asked Vice President Bush to establish a South
Florida Task Force to respond to the drug trafficking emergency there.
The effort pooled the resources of nine federal agencies, including
the military, with state and local authorities.
The unprecedented success of the South Florida Task Force led to the
creation of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System in
1983. This system is now a model for coordinating interdiction
efforts around all our borders.
Operation Alliance
On Aug. 14, 1986, the Reagan Administration announced Operation Alliance, a
major new cooperative drug law enforcement effort along the 2,000 mile
U.S.-Mexico border to choke off the flow of drugs, weapons and other
contraband across the border. This program will involve more than 20 U.S.
agencies, including federal, state, and local authorities; more than 500
federal law enforcement personnel; and, if Congress approves, $266 million
over the next two years to hire additional agents and prosecutors and purchase
new air surveillance equipment.
The President's Programs Have Made Gains
• In 1981, one foreign country was eradicating narcotics; today, 14
countries and all 50 states are eradicating.
• Aggressive enforcement activity against cocaine manufacturers in Colombia,
Peru, and Bolivia is disrupting the flow of cocaine. U.S. helicopters
have been aiding the effort in Bolivia.
• Enhanced interdiction has increased U.S. seizures of illegal drugs. In
1981, the U.S. seized two tons of cocaine; in 1985, we seized 20 tons.
• The U.S. Armed Forces have cut the use of illegal drugs in the military by
67 percent since 1981.
• Since 1981, Mrs. Reagan has traveled more than 100,000 miles to 28 states
and six foreign countries in her campaign and has clearly become the
national leader in the effort to stop drug abuse by young people.
t Due to the First Lady's hard work, the number of parent groups has grown
from 900 to 9,000 groups nationwide. Our school-aged children have formed
more than 10,000 "Just Say No" clubs around the country.
• Attitudes are changing. In 1985, polls showed 73 percent of our teenagers
believed that possession of small 2unounts of marijuana should be treated
as a criminal offense, compared to 44 percent in 1979.
Congressional Action: Republicans Provide the Tough Initiatives
On Sept. 11, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a
billion anti-drug bill. This package would spend an enormous amount of money
without adequate regard to whether many provisions effectively address the
drug problem. To gain bipartisan support. Republicans were allowed free rein
with amendments; thus the toughest anti-drug measures in the bill were
sponsored by Republicans, such as life imprisonment without parole for a
second conviction of selling drugs to minors, relaxation of the "exclusionary
rule" which has allowed incriminating evidence to be barred from proceedings
on technicalities, and a death penalty provision for members of criminal
enterprises who knowingly cause the death of another individual. The bill
passed with a 392-16 vote.
The federal role in fighting drug abuse is vital, but it is only a component
of what must be the total resolve of our nation to end illegal drug use. All
segments of American society — labor, business, the clergy, educators and
those in sports and media must share in the role of making drug abuse
unacceptable.
"As we mobilize for this national crusade," said Reagan, "I'm mindful that
drugs are a constant temptation for millions. Please remember this when your
courage is tested: you are Americans. You are the product of the freest
society mankind has ever known. No one — iever— has the right to destroy
your dreams and shatter your life."
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DATE: September 26, 1986
Senator Chic Hecht
302 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
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Dear Senator Hecht;
The National School Boards Association (NSBA), on behalf of 96,000
local school board members nationwide, is heartened that Congress and
the Administration have shown a strong interest in joining with the
on-going efforts of local school boards and launching a broad-based
national attack on substance abuse. A nationwide commitment to attack
the problem in a single concerted effort will be more effective than
each local community attempting to attack the problem on its own.
However, NSBA would caution Congress not to abandon several important
principals governing federal, state and local governmental relations
in the rush to respond to the drug crisis before Congress adjourns.
1) Funds should be distributed to states on a pass-through formula
basis to local schools rather than left at the state level for
discretionary grants. The drug crisis is all pervasive and each
local community needs additional resources to attack the problem
according to locally determined priorities.
2) Allocating a large portion of drug education funds to state
governors to address dropouts and other at-risk youth through
community-based organizations risks losing accountability for
these funds since there are few controls on the educational
quality of these programs outside of the educational system.
Local schools can more easily be accountable for developing
cooperative programs with community-based organizations to reach
at-risk youth.
3) The award or use of grant funds should not be linked to
requirements to espouse a particular educational message (e.g.
illegal drugs are wrong and harmful) or to adopt a particular
drug education curriculum or drug abuse prevention policy (e.g.
drug testing). The principal of local control of education
dictates that the statute should be silent on these matters.
Senator Chic Hecht
September 26, 1986
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4) Funding must be adequate — at least $150 million — and should
not be skimmed from other federal education programs.
NSBA looks forward to swift passage of legislation to implement and
fund new federal initiatives in this all important area. The future
of many children is at stake. Thank you for your concern for the
needs of public school children.
Very truly yours,
NELLIE C. WEIL
President
THOMAS A. SHANNON
Executive Director
STROM THURMOND, SOUTH CAROUNA. CHAIRMAN
CHARLES McC, MATHIAS. JR.. MARYLAND JOSEPH R. 8IDEN. JR.. OEUWARE
PAOL LAXAUT, NEVADA EDWARD M. KENNEDY. MASSACHUSETTS
ORRIN G. HATCH. UTAH
ALAN K. SIMPSON. WYOMING
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY. IOWA
JEREMIAH DENTON. ALABAMA
ROBERT C. BYRD. WEST VIRGINIA
HOWARD M. METZENBAUM. OHIO lanitEd States Senate ARLEN SPECTER. PENNSYLVANIA
MITCH McCONNELL. KENTUCKY
JAMES T. BROYHILL. NORTH CAROUNA
DENNIS DECONCINI. ARIZONA
PATRICK J. LEAHY. VERMONT
HOWELL HEFLIN. AU8AMA
PAUL SIMON. ILLINOIS
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OIANA L WATIRMAN, GENERAL COUNSEL
MEUNOAKOUTSOUMPAS, CHlEP CLERK
MARK H. GcrtNSTEIN. MlNORfTY CHIEF COUNSEL
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY - ;
WASHINGTON. DC 20510
September 26. 1986
Dear Colleague:
During debate on the omnibus drug bill, it is likely that
an attempt will be made to modify the constitutional
protections afforded by the exclusionary rule. I intend to
offer such amendments as may be necessary to develop a fair and
effective system of civil sanctions as an alternative to that
rule. I hope to have your support in this effort.
My proposed bill. S. 492. entitled "Law Enforcement and
Investigative Officers Civil Liability Protection Act" develops
a system of alternate civil remedies to protect Americans from
unconstitutional searches and seizures. The bill had the
support of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation,
Like all other serious proposals for reform of the Federal
Tort Claims Act. S. 492 would immunize individual law
enforcement agents from personal liability, except in the most
extreme situations, and shifts such liability to the
government, which is ultimately responsibile for training and
supervising the agent. It provides that the government shall
be liable for bodily injury and property damages, or liquidated
damages up to $2,000. unless the agent was not acting in good
faith. Thus, the civil damages are financially responsible and
fair to both the victim of the unconstitutional action and the
government.
As former Chief Justice Burger recognized in his
concurring opinion in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Narcotics
Agents nearly fifteen years ago. it is particularly fitting to
link modifications on the application of the exclusionary rule
to the development of an effective system of civil remedies to
protect Americans from violations of their constitutional
rights.
Attached is a copy of a recent article from the Washington
Post which dramatically illustrates the reasons why you should
support efforts to make the government rather than the
individual police officer financially responsible for
violations of a citizen's constitutional rights.
Jo/eph R, Biden. Jr
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Police Held Liable on Improper Arrest
Immunity limited Even if Judge Signs Warrant, High Court Rules
By A! Kamen
Washinfitoii Post Stnd Wrilcr
Th^^ugreme^our^ule^j^e^
terday that police officers may
forced to pay damages to people
J# tiiey arrest improperlyth'ey
had first obtained an arrest
V—even if
warrant signed by a judge^
Police officers^ unlike ^rosecutors
and judges, do not enjoy absolute
immunity from lawsuits, and
''objectively unreasonable" actions
expose tiiem to liability for
^gijiaggg^ Justice Byron R. White
wrote for the court.
Jerald R. Vaughn, executive director
of the International Association
of Chiefs of Police, said he was
"disappointed" by the ruling. "It
raises more concerns" in the minds
of officers about their personal liability
and "being second-guessed,"
Vaughn said.
The ruling involved the predawn
arrest of Louisa and lames R.
Briggs. a prominent, Rhode Island
couple picked up in a drug sweep
after their names surfaced in a
wiretap of a suspected drug dealer.
The couple was taken to a police
station, booked, held for several
hours and released. Local and statewide
papers reported that the couple
had been arrested on drug possession
charges. lames Briggs is a
real estate developer, forrner oresr
ident of the Narragansett Chamber
of Commerce, former head of the
1br.ll h^nrt t'nnd and muscular dvstronhv
drives and former Plc-rtPH
towr^axasjggggj^
""^(^irmlctm^t was returned
against the couple. They sued the
state trooper, Edward Malleyi-ydto
had sought the arrest warfdftti
based on a telephone conversation
tapped by another officer, Joseph
Miranda, during a drug investigation.
The Briggses each asked $2
million in damages for violations of
their civil rights.
A trial judge threw out the case,
saying that the magistrate's issuance
of a warrant entitled Malley to
ley obtained an arrest warrant for
the couple for conspiracy to posses^
marijuana with intent to deliver.
"The question in this case,"
immunity. The 1st U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals overruled, saying
that a warrant does not automatically
shield police from lawsuits if it
can be shown that officers should
have known there was no "probable
cause" for an arrest.
^hat limited immunity. White
lintH "nrfividp.ti amnle nrotecti(^n to
all hut the niainlv incomnetent r,r
•those who knowinglv violate the
The court rejected arguments
tronr20 states and from law enforcement
groups that a magistrate's
issuance of a warrant
shielded the officer from liability.
In this case. White said,-Malley
^ was acting on the basis of a tele-
. phone .convetsatioii between an unknown''
pCTSbn»'ah£l,.;Paid Driscoll,
who knew the Briggses' daughter
and whose phone was tapped. The
unknown caller said he had smoked
marijuana at a party at the Briggses'
home "in front of Jimmy
Briggs" and that he, the caller, had
"passed it to Louisa."
Based on that information, Mai-
White said, "is whether a reasonably
well-trained officer ... would
have known that [the call] failed lo^
establish probable cause and that he
^houldnoHjaveaDgjiedfwt^
ratX^nufelljpEoIdmg the appeals
court, sent the case back for a jury
to decide that issue.
"It is true that in an ideal system
an unreasonable request for a warrant
would be harmless," White
said, "because no judge would approve
it. Jut ours is not an ideal
^3^gtwiT^^^_anditis_j)05^
..magistrate, working under d^Ret,'
•Pressures, will fail to perform as'a
. magistrate .should. We find it
1
— ••oatiire the offic'efln^.
g for the warrant to roim'mize' thi^
iiiiger. bv "exercisiiig"reasonaDie^
^Tustl^Lewis F.Towell Jr., joined
by Justice William H. Rehnquist,
dissented. Powell said he agreed
that police do not enjoy absolute
immunity, but said Malley appeared
to have been "reasonably competent"
and that a magistrate's issuance
of a warrant, "although not
conclusive, is entitled to substantial
evidentiary weight."
Editor, Judy Myers
Notice #117
September 26,1986
U.S. SENATE REPUBL[CAN POLICY COMMITTEE
William L. Armstrong, Chairman
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S. 2878: THE SENATE BIPARTISAN DRUG BILL
REPORTED: Not reported out of committee.
BACKGROUND: The Majority Leader on Sept 23 introduced S. 2850, a comprehensive package of
anti-drug measures. It included (1) most of the recommendations from S. 2849 (the Administration's
bill), (2) several bills that had been acted upon by the Senate during the past year, and (3) additional
Senate proposals. During the past several days, Republicans and Democrats have engaged in discussions
to put together a bipartisan drug bill, drawing upon S. 2850 as well as S. 2798, its Democrat
counterpart The result of this joint effort is S. 2878.
PURPOSE
• Toughen penalties against drug possession and trafficking
• Strengthen drug interdiction efforts
• Secure greater intemational cooperation with U.S. efforts to combat drug trafficking
• Make it easier to crack down on drugs in the workplace
• Reauthorize and expand current drug abuse prevention and treatment, create a new program of
drug abuse education, and reduce alcohol and drug abuse among Native Americans
TITLE 1: ENFORCEMENT
• Drug Penalties Enhancement Act raises penalties for large-scale domestic trafficking. It
incorporates provisions from both Republican and Democrat bills, aiming at greater
coordination and consistency than in House-passed bill.
• Drug Possession Penalty Act stiffens penalties for simple possession of a controlled substance:
higher fines, mandatory imprisonment for second offense, repeal of pre-trial diversion for first
offenders. (House bill makes minimal changes.)
• Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act (1) provides additional penalties for persons who use juveniles in
trafficking, with added penalties for second offense, (2) adds penalties for providing drugs to
persons under 21 or using persons 14 years of age or younger, and (3) broadens current law
against selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school to include (a) manufacturing drugs and (b)
schools at all levels.
• Asset Forfeiture Amendments provide for forfeiture of a convicted person's substitute assets
when proceeds from a specific crime are not reachable by the court.
• Controlled Substance Analogs Enforcement Act outlaws manufacture with intent to distribute
"designer drugs" and prohibits possession with intent for human consumption. Identical to S.
1437, passed by Senate in Dec. 1985, but with stiffer penalties and conforming amendments.
• Continuing Drug Enterprise Act sets heavy penalties, including life term under certain
circumstances, for drug kingpins.
• Controlled Substances Import and Export Act Penalties Enhancement Act imposes stiffer
penalties for impon and export violations and confonns them to other penaties in bill.
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• Money Laundering Crimes Aa tracks language of S. 2683, which passed the Senate as
amendment last summer and was pan of both Republican and Democrat bills. Provides strong
penalty and forfeiture provisions, greater authority for Treasury.
• Broadens definition of armed career criminal to include anyone with 3 or more convictions "for
a crime of violence" or "a serious drug offense" or both.
• For drug law enforcement for FY 1987, adds to Department of Justice and Federal Judiciary
$237,500,000 in budget authority and $104,093,000 in outlays above the level in current law.
• Provides for Drug Law Enforcement Grant program.
• Requires report by DOD/Justice on military facilides that could be used for prisons.
• Requires National Drug Enforcement Policy Board report to Congress on improving interdiction
and improving cooperation among law enforcement agencies. (See related provision under
Interdiction.)
• Removes cap from forfeiture funds (generated from assets seized in drug-related prosecutions),
removing that money from the budget allocation process.
• Includes provisions of the Controlled Substances Technical Amendments Act passed by Senate
in S. 1236 in April, 1986.
• Includes provisions of the Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act (S. 630,
previously passed by Senate), providing rewards for assisting in arrest or conviction of killers or
kidnappers of a Federal drug agent
• Operating a common carrier under influence of drugs or alcohol is made a Federal criminal
offense. (S. 850 previously passed by Senate).
• Freedom of Information Act amendment: prohibits public disclosure of information that might
alert drug dealers or organized crime figures of law enforcement related to them.
• Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Act bars sale and transport of drug-related items through Postal
Service or in interstate commerce. Provides for seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of
paraphemalia
• Imposes criminal penalties for setting up or maintaining any place for making, distributing, or
using a controlled substance. Applies also to those who "knowingly and intentionally" rent or
make available a place for those purposes.
• In place of the Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act, bill provides for a study of chemical
precursors in manufacture of illegal drugs.
White House Conference: Both S. 2850 and S. 2798 called for a White House Conference concerning
the drug problem. The Republican bill (1) emphasized parental involvement and participation by
parents' organizations and (2) focused the Conference upon education, prevention, and treatment. The
Democrat bill (1) mandated Conference representation for state and local officials and (2) broadened
the scope of the Conference to include trafficking and law enforcement This bill, however, contains no
provision on this point, which may be considered during floor debate.
TITLE II: INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
• Increases International Narcotics Control Assistance by $55 million for FY 1987 if (1) requested
by President with (2) a plan for expenditure. At least $10 million of that amount would be for
aircraft for eradication and interdiction primarily in Latin America
• Penalties for countries involved in drug trade:
* Foreign Assistance to "every major illicit drug producing or major drug-transit country" is
cut (1) 50% for FY 1987 and (2) 100% thereafter.
* Secretary of Treasury, as of March 1, 1987, must instruct U.S. representatives to
international lending institutions to vote against loans to those drug countries.
* President must deny benefits under Generalized System of Preferences, Caribbean Basin
Economic Recovery Act, and other tariff preferences.
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* Exception if President certifies that country has cooperated in past year with U.S. antidrug
efforts and that U.S. national security interests require the assistance. (Sets
conditions for the President to consider in making the determinations and procedures for
Congress to disapprove his determination by joint resolution.)
• Provides for U.S. retention of title to interdiction aircraft loaned to Mexico and requires recordkeeping
on those planes.
• Set-aside of $1 million for development of aerial herbicide for coca.
• Comptroller General study of effectiveness of Narcotics Control Assistance program.
• Requires yearly report on extent to which countries cooperate with U.S. extradition requests.
• Amends Mansfield Amendment: prohibits U.S. officials from making an arrest in foreign
country but allows them to be present and to assist foreign officers in making arrest Also allows
self-protection.
• Orders expeditious creation of information-sharing on arrests of foreign nations in U.S.; study of
narcotics traffic from Africa; allows S2 million to be used in Colombia or elsewhere to protect
officials; sets conditions on assistance to Bolivia; requires President to take steps to combat
narcoterrorists.
• Requires presidential report on threats or violence against U.S. drug enforcement personnel in
foreign countries and bars aid or loans to countries which do not cooperate in such
circumstances.
• Urges negotiations for new procedures for Coast Guard boarding of vessels of foreign registry.
• Collection of narcotics data made priority task for intelligence community, with mandate for
information on narcotic crop production.
• Supports U.N. conference on drug abuse and trafficking, urges speedy action on narcotics
control conventions, etc.
• Advocates Mexico-U.S. Intergovernmental Commission.
• Expresses concem about opium production in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Laos.
• Adds $2 million to U.S.I.A. and S3 million to A.I.D. for overseas drug education.
TITLE III: INTERDICTION AND COMMERCE
• National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act contains language from FY 1987 DOD
authorization bill, already passed by Senate, providing $212.1 million to Customs Service and
Coast Guard for better intelligence and interdiction. It also allows at least 500 Coast Guard
personnel to be assigned to naval vessels to assist in drug interdiction.
• Customs Enforcement Act tightens up customs procedures and requirements, increases certain
penalties, expands authority of Secretary of Treasury in various customs matters. It also makes
unlawful various aspects of moving and transferring illegal drugs.
• Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act codifies circumstances under
which Coast Guard can board vessels to enforce U.S. law. Creates new offense: possession with
intent to distribute a controlled substance aboard a vessel within territorial waters of another
country which permits U.S. enforcement.
• Requires report from National Drug Enforcement Policy Board on extent to which Department
of Defense should be involved in law enforcement; and report on drug education in DoD
schools,
• Driving under influence of drugs is made offense under U.S. Code of Military Justice.
• Permits DoD to loan personnel to civilian law enforcement agencies to operate and maintain
equipment used by agencies to assist in foreign interdiction activities.
• Establishes a Federal violation for using unregistered aircraft in transporting drugs; provides for
seizure of aircraft; allows States to impose criminal penalties for use of forged or altered aircraft
registrations.
• Authorizes FCC to revoke licenses of persons who use licensed communications equipment for
drug-related activities and to seize any equipment so used.
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• Study by National Drug Enforcement Policy Board of Federal drug law enforcement efforts.
• Emergency Assistance by Department of Defense. Slightly amends current law to redefme
"emergency circumstance" in which military may by used outside the land area of the U.S. to
enforce the Controlled Substances Act: when size and scope of suspected criminal activity pose
serious threat to interests of the U.S. and when enforcement of the law would be seriously
impaired if assistance were not provided. Requires consultation with Secretary of State. Allows
military personnel to intercept, identify, and monitor the location of vessels and aircraft until
law enforcement officials can assume responsibility.
TITLE IV: EDUCATION, TREATMENT. AND REHABILITATION -- DEMAND REDUCTION ACT
Drug-Free Federal Workplace Act amends the Rehabilitation Act to ensure that Federal agencies are
not barred from disciplining or terminating employees who currently use illegal drugs or abuse alcohol.
Treatment and Rehabilitation: Substance Abuse Services Amendments:
• Reauthorize current ADAMHA (Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Administration) block
grant for FY 1987.
• Raises authorization for FY 1987 to S675 million.
• Directs S125 million of that amount for state drug abuse treatment centers in areas of greatest
need (e.g., full capacity.)
• Reserves S20 million of that amount for treatment of high risk youth.
• Gives States more leeway in using resources under the block grant
• Picks up much of S. 2595, the ADAMHA reauthorization on the calendar, concerning
reauthorization of NIAAA, NIDA, HHS report on suicide, etc.
• Requires from HHS a national plan to combat drug abuse.
• Prohibits creation of any new agency or center to carry out these provisions, thus barring
administrative creation of costly ($30 million) new office,
• Revises allotment procedures for Indian tribes.
• Includes sense of Senate resolution that possession or distribution of controlled substances
should remain a criminal offense under State laws.
Education: Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act:
• Creates new $150 million program in Department of Education for grants to States:
* $20 million of that amount is for Secretary's discretionary fund, of which $10 million is
earmarked for training centers.
* $2 million of the remaining $10 million is earmarked for Indian drug abuse projects.
* The remaining $130 million is distributed to States by school-age population formula, with
a minimum State grant of $650,000.
* At least $80 million of the $130 million must be passed through by the governors to State
(10%) and local (90%) education agencies. The remaining $50 million can be used by the
governors for wide range of activities, including school and community-based programs.
* Private schools eligible to participate.
* 5% cap on administrative expenses. High risk youth must be a priority in the state
programs.
• Sense of Senate resolution urging Motion Picture Association to "D" rate films depicting drug
use in favorable way.
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act:
• Establishes comprehensive approach to drug and alcohol abuse among Native Americans
through various programs of prevention and treatment, with particular focus on youth.
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• Authorises attack on narcotics traffic in Indian country.
• Provides guidance to Federal agendes r^ponsible for Indian programs.
OTHER PROVISIONS: PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES
• Provides narrow, two-year exemption from Competition in Contracting Act to allow Federal
government to accept certain volunteer services,
• Permits domestic use of USIA films and other materials against drug abuse.
TRUST FUNDS FOR TAX REFUNDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
• Allows taxpayers to designate all or part of refund - as well as additional contributions -- for a
Drug Addiction Prevention Trust Fund.
MATTERS NOT COVERED IN THE BILL, which may be subjects of floor amendments, include;
death penalty, reform of exclusionary rule, habeas corpus reform, and random drug testing of Federal
transportation employees. These items will be covered by additions to the electronic Notice available on
LEGIS, through the "LNOT" function.
Staff Contact: Bill Gribbin, x42946
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M E M O R A N D U M
September 26, 1986
TO: Senator Hecht
FROM: George
RE: Major Amendments to Drug Bill
Among many probable amendments, the following are most important.
** Hawkins amendment to require the Department of Defense to
participate in drug interdiction efforts along our borders. The
Defense Dept. opposes such increased responsibility. A similar
provision is included in the House bill.
** Drug Czar amendment: This would require that one official be
responsible for coordinating overall national drug policy. The
Administration is strongly opposed to this amendment.
* Habeas Corpus amendment: This would put limits on State
prisoners' appeal rights in federal courts. You are a cosponsor of
a similar bill.
** Exclusionary Rule amendment: This would allow certain 'unjustly
obtained' evidence to be used in court cases against drug offenders.
The Administration supports this.
** Federal Death Penalty amendment.
S13770 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 26, 1986
WEICKER SEES CREATIVE BOOKKEETIMG. NOT
NEW CASH
WASHINGTON—Sen. Lowell Welcker
charged Thursday that President Reagan's
antidrug program will be financed by "stealing"
funds from other programs, not by new
dollars.
Welcker. chairman of the Senate appropriations
subcommittee that handles health
and education programs, said that the $900
million In "increased resurces" planned by
Reagan will come from money now allocated
to other domestic programs.
"The Fhesident does not propose spending
new money on the war on drugs," Welcker
said in a Senate speech. "Rather, he proposes
stealing the money from one program
to spend It on another."
Welcker said It was his understanding that
$100 million will be taken from student aid
programs and given to local school districts
for drug education and law enforcement coordination.
He said $233 million will be
shifted from current drug programs and allocated
to the National Institute of Drug
Abuse for drug treatment, prevention and
research.
Among the cuts. Welcker said, will be $75
million in block grants for community and
migrant health centers: $2 million from the
block grants for preventive activities to
reduce morbidity and mortality: $86 million
from the National Institutes of Health earmarked
for research $6 million from the National
Institute of Mental Health for prevention
of mental Illness: $1.3 million from
the National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism:
and $60 million from the low-income
home energy program.
Welcker said states will be able to shift alcohol.
drug abu.se and mental health block
grants to increase drug abuse activities, if
they do so without additional money.
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Mr. MATHIAS. Before the Senate
passes the bill, every Senator and all
of the Nation's taxpayers ought to
know how these programs are going to
be paid for.
Is it going to be new money? Is it
going to be money taken from other
programs? Is it going to be shifted
around in some way which is good? Or
is it going to be paid for by robbing
programs that are already far too
small?
In sum, there are a number of unanswered
questions, and there is very
little evidence to answer them, at least
on the present record. Perhaps the
biggest question of all is. even with all
of the recommended changes, will this
bill be effective, or are we spinning our
wheels? Is all of this concern going to
be squandered on a wasted effort?
Only careful and thoughtful deliberation
can answer that question, and
I urge every Senator to bring that
kind of deliberation to this process, because
the American people, our families
and our children, deserve nothing
less.
Mr. HECHT. Mr. President, I rise
today to speak in opposition to something
which seems to have become a
veritable American tradition; the tolerance
of widespread drug abuse in
our Nation's schools. Concurrently,
Mr. President, I wish to express my
steadfast support for S. 2878, the Antidrug
Abuse Act ol 1986, of which I am
a cosponsor.
Mr. President, statistics show that
nearly two-thirds of our American
teenagers have used an illicit drug at
some time before their senior year of
high school. A particularly unfortunate
aspect of this fact becomes more
apparent when one considers that
drug use Impairs the memory, alertness.
and achievement of our teenagers;
with frequent users of marijuana
earning below average and failing
grades twice as frequently as their
classmates. How will we be able to educate
our young—the inheritors of our
Nation—in an environment so clouded
with the 111 effects of drug abuse?
Moreover, Mr. President, not only
have many of our Nation's schools witnessed
an increase in drug abusing students,
but in some cases these educational
institutions have Inadvertently
come to furnish a veritable free
market in which drug dealers may
merchandise their goods. Drug transactions
occurring on high school campuses.
in fact, have come to represent
a significant percentage of ali drug
sales to American teenagers. Even
more frightening is that statistics
show a number of illegal drugs—particularly
marijuana—are used on
school grounds. Students provide the
demand, drug dealers provide the
supply, and in too many cases, our
schools provide a marketplace for this
deadly exchange.
Mr. President, in current attempts to
curtail the use of drugs, education programs
have been implemented to
reach young children before they are
exposed to drugs. These programs,
however, are not being taught in our
junior high schools, as some might
imagine—no. the proliferation of drugs
is too widespread for preexposure programs
to be successful at that late
level—rather, these programs are targeted
at fourth and fifth graders. In
other words, Mr. President, the problem
has become so great that we must
now fill the days of our 9- and 10-yearolds
with the harsh reality that they
may face a near-term drug confrontation.
I wish to point out to my colleagues
that the escalation of drug abuse is
shown not only by the number of this
scourge's victims, but may also be
measured in the potency and availability
of today's illicit drugs. The purified
form of cocaine known as "crack." for
example, has lead to a number of
drug-related deaths.
In closing. Mr. Pre.sident. I would
simply like to remind my colleagues of
the respon.sibillly we all share to protect
and nurture our young people.
Today, in America, tlie most serious
threat to our children is drug abuse.
The continuing tolerance and misconception
of this Nation's drug problem
stand as obstructions to the corrective
action which must be undertaken if we
are to rescue our young people, our
future, from this terrible epidemic.
Congress has an obligation to remove
these obstructions. To this end. 1
wholeheartedly support the omnibus
antidrug measure Introduced in the
Senate, and urge my colle^ues to do
the same.
Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, the
bipartisan measure now before the
Senate represents more than just a
few weeks' work on directing our national
attention and resources to
combat the drug problem.
This package draws on measures
which have been introduced and debated
In both Houses of Congress,
some of which have already been approved
by this body. Also Included are
proposals sent to us by the President
and Mrs. Reagan as part of the national
crusade they are leading against the
war on drugs.
I am pleased to be a cosponsor of
this comprehensive package, which attempts
to coordinate activities and resources
to arrest both the supply ami
demand for illegal drugs.
My Stale of Mississippi, along with
other Gulf Coast States, Is a primrentry
point for much of the drugsmuggling
activity in our country. The
people of Mississippi don't want that
distinction, and 1 believe this bill will
help us do something about it.
Title in of this bill will do much to
strengthen drug interdiction efforts. It
contains language, already passed by
the Senate, to provide $212.1 million
to the Customs Service and Coa.st
Guard for better intelligence and
interdiction. It also allows at least 500
Coast Guard persormel to be assigned
to naval vessels to assist In drug interdiction.
The bill tightens customs procedures
and requirements, increases penalties,
and expands the authority of the Secretary
of the Treasury in various customs
matters.
The bill also directs the Department
of Defense to be an integral part of
the comprehensive, national drug
interdiction program. It permits the
Department of Defense to loan personnel
to civilian law enforcement
agencies to operate and maintain
equipment used in foreign interdiction
ac'Llvities.
It is necessary that we secure greater
international cooperation with U.S. efforts
to combat drug trafficking. This
package increases International narcotics
control assistance by $55 million
for fiscal year 1987, Including at least
$10 million for procurement, of aircraft
to interdict drug traffic primarily from
Latin America.
In addition to interdiction efforts,
the bill would enhance law enforcement
efforts at the State and local
levels against drug trafficking. It also
provides additional resources for eliminating
drug use in the schools and
work place, and for enhancing drug
abuse treatment capacity.
The elements of this legislation
which lncrea.se public awareness and
prevention of drug abuse are necessary
components of this comprehensive
effort to achieve a drug-free society.
We can best help our citizens underSaturday,
September 27, 1986
Daily Digest
HIGHLIGHTS
Senate agreed to conference report on Tax Reform Act of 198(5.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages Sl386)-Sl41S0
Measi^es Introduced: Five bills and one resolution
were introduced, as follows: S. 2884-2888. and S
Res. 493.
S1410S
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows;
S. 2885, to amend title 38, United States Code, to
provK^ for certain Veterans' Administration benebased
on the service-connected
disability or death of a veteran, to be paid in accordance
with laws administered by the Veterans' Adminmration
and to provide for certain Veterans'
Administmion insurance policy loans to be mode
and revolving funds to be administered in accord-
Y>ce with such laws, and to provide for Veterans'
Administration home loan guaranty reports under
certain circumstances, and for other purposes. (S
Rept. No. 99-494) - r- \
^ 2575, to amend title 18. United States Code,
wiA respect to the interception of certain communications
and other forms of surveillance, and for
other purposes, with an amendment in the nature
a substitute.
Measures Passed:
OH Mluthn Liability and Compensation Act of
1966: Senate passed S. 2799, to consolidate and improve
Federal laws providing compensation and establishing
liability for oU spills, after agreeing to
committee ^endments and MitcbeM Amendment
No. 3082, of a technical nature.
fog* s?4i3r
Repeal of United Stales Trustee System: Senate
p«s^ S. 2888, to temporarily delay the repeal of
theJJnited States Trustee System.
rae* tl4)M
Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986: Senate resumed
cons^ration of H.R. 5484, to strengthen the Federencourage
foreign cooperation in enulicating
illicit drug crops and in haldng international
drug traffic, to improve enforcement of Federal
d^ laws and enhance interdiction of illicit drug
shipments, to provide strong Federal leadership in
establishing effective drug abuse prevention and
education programs, and to expand Federal support
(ot drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation efforts,
with Dole-Byrd Amendment No. 3034, in the nature
of a substitute, taking action on additional amendments
proposed thereto, as follows:
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Adopted:
(1) Bentseo-Amendment No. 3039, to provide addidonal
authorization for the procurement of secure
voice radios for Federal law enforcement agencies.
a«g« SI3964
(2) Abdnor-DeConcini Amendment No. 3040, to
authorize the Commissioner of Customs, acting
under the direction of the Secretary the Treasury,
to recruit, train, and acc^t, without regard to die
civil service clai^fication laws, rules, or regulations,
the services of individuals without compensadon as
volunteers to aid the U.S. Customs Service in the
performance of its responsibilities, and to establish
the U.S. Customs Reserve.
(3) Hawkins Amendment No. 5041, to strengthen
penalties for individuals over the age of 18 who
knowingly and intentionally sell a controlled substance
to a pregnant woman.
P«9«St39M
(4) Weicker Amendment No. 3042, to require the
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
to include as a top priority research on neuronal
receptors.
P^«SI3«70
(5) Biden (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3043
to provide funds for programs which identify and
meet the needs of drug-dependent offenders.
Pofl* 119971
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i . ' .
(6) By 83 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 297), DeConcini
modiHed Amendment No. 3044, to provide additional
Requirements for Department of Defense
suppoK of drug interdiction activities.
rofl* $19977
(7) Durenberger-Trible Amendment No. 3045, to
increase the assistance furnished by the Federal
Government to officers and employees who abusively
use drugs or alcohol.
Pog« S139tl
(8) Harkin Amendment No. 3046, to encourage
increased participation by the Gvil Air Patrol in the
Federal Government's drug interdiction program.
p««*sism
(9) Andrews Amendment No. 3047, to provide
community action agencies the opportunity to offer
local bro^-based programs for ^cohol and drug
abuse prevention.
rm9» sisaas
(10) Andrews Amendment No. 3048, to require
that die powers and authorities provided in section
4218, which provides sratutory authority for the Secretary
of the Interior to authorize employees of the
Department to exercise law and order powers in
Indian country, shall be exercised in accordance
with an agreement between the Secretary of the Interior
and the Attorney General.
rd9« sissas
(11) By 57 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 298), Moynihan-
Humphrey Amendment No. 3049, to declare
that the Soviet acdon in imprisoning and falsely
charging Nicholas Daniloff reflects the failure of the
Soviet Union to observe internationally recognized
standards of human rights and civil condua and
raises profound doubts about Soviet willingness to
live up to their responsibilides and commitments
under any international or bilateral agreement; to
urge the President to continue forthright demands
for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr.
Daniloff; to call on the President to condition his
agreement to a summit meeting with Secretary Gorbachev
on the prompt return of Mr. Daniloff from
the Soviet Union; to express opposition to any new
economic or commercial agreement with the Soviet
Union, or any new transaaions under existing economic
or commercial agreements with the Soviet
Union until Mr. Daniloff has been granted unconditional
permission to depart the Soviet Union; and to
call on the President to demand that the Soviet
Union remove its spies from its United States mission
and from the United Nations Secretariat and to
take all measures necessary to bring an end to such
direct Soviet violations of the United Nations Charter.
f«a« S199M
(12) Murkowski Amendment No. 3050, to exempt
certain maritime operations from the restrictions regarding
participation in foreign police arrest actions.
Pafl«SI3990
(13) Metzenbaum Amendment No. 3051, to increase
the amount of funds for treatment purposes.
Pa0*S13991
(14) Domenid Amendment No. 3052, to establish
the President's Media Commission on Drug Abuse,
to examine public education programs in effect on
the date of enactment which are implemented
through various segments of mass media, and intended
to prevent narcotic and psychotropic drug
abuse.
pofl* sism
(15) Helms modified Amendment No. 3053, to
eliminate the sugar quota of countries with governments
involved in the trade of narcotics illegal in
the United States, and to maintain the sugar quota
for specified countries.
p««*sism
(16) Bingaman Amendment No. 3054, to establish
a communitywide drug and alcohol prevention and
health promotion demonstration program.
Pa9« sism
(17) D'Amato Amendment No. 3055, to prohibit
possession, manufacture, sale, importation, and mailing
of ballistic knives.
Pafl«SI4003
(18) Domenici Amendment No. 3056, to provide
access for eligible homeless individuals to benefits
under the food stamp, job training, AFDC, supplemental
security income, medicaid, and veterans programs.
P«B« SI4003
(19) Hatch (for Abdnor) Amendment No. 3057,
to ensure full one-half of 1 percent minimum grant
to each of the 50 States under subtitle B, Drug-Free
Schools and Communities Act of 1986.
Poff* S140M
(20) Hatch-Kennedy Amendment No. 3058, of a
technical and clarifying nature.
Paff«S140M
(21) DeConcini Amendment No. 3061, to restore
the Federal pretrial diversion program.
Pva* S14022
(22) Domenici modified Amendment No. 3062, to
express the sense of the Congress that the entertainment
industry take certain steps to assist in the national
war against illegal drugs.
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September 27,1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D1203
(23) Danfonh Amendment No. 3063, to add provisions
regarding testing, licensing and qualification
of operators of commercial motor vehicles.
rciff*Sf4024
(24) specter Amendment No. 3064 (to Amendment
No. 3063), of a perfecting nature, providing
that the Secretary of Transportation shall, not later
than October 1, 1988, submit to the Congress a
study regarding the manner in which the requirement
regarding blood alcohol content level impacts
on operators of commercial motor vehicles who are
required by their employers to be available to operate
such commercial motor vehicle on short notice.
foe«si402r
(25) Harldn Amendment No. 3065 (to Amendment
No. 3062), of a perfecting nature, to eiq>ress
the sense of the Congress that the entertainment industry
take certain steps to assist in the national war
against illegal drugs. (Amendment was not agreed
to, but fell when Amendment No. 3063 was modified,
which includes the language of diis amendment.)
Peg* 114033
(26) Leahy Amendment No. 3066, with respect to
the use of Freedom of Information Act information
by criminal organiaations.
Pa9*SI4033
(27) Mathias Amendment No. 3067 (to Amendment
No. 3066), of a perfeaing nature, to amrad
dtle 18, United States Code, with respect to the
interception of certain communications and other
forms of surveillance.
Pog* SI4033
(28) Chiles Amendment No. 3068, to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, to provide for the
reimbursement to State and lo<^ law enforcement
agencies for costs incurred in investigations which
substantially contribute to the recovery of Federal
taxes.
Pag* SI404I
(29) Hatch (for Gorton) Amendment No. 3069, to
provide that the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency shall conduct a study of the manufacturing
and distribution process of cyanide, with
a view to determining methods, procedures, or
other actions which might be taken, employed, or
otherwise carried out in connection with such manufacturing
and distribution in order to safeguard the
public from the wrongful use of cyanide.
Pog* 314043
(30) Metzenbaum Amendment No. 3070, to
amend the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Aa relating to infant formula.
Pag* SI4043
(31) Helms Amendment No. 3071 (to Amendment
No. 3070), of a perfecting nature, to help prevent
rape and other sexual violence by prohibiting
dial-a-porn operations.
Pog* si 4047
(32) Evans Amendment No. 3072, providing that
no funds may be expended to modify any existing
aircraft for air surveillance purposes unless the proposed
modifications comply with validated requirements
and specifications developed by the U.S.
Coast Guard.
Pag* SI4064
(33) Evans Amendment No. 3073, to create a
White House Conference on Drug Abuse and Control.
Pag* S14064
(34) Metzenbaum Amendment No. 3074, to designate
alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs
targeted at smdent athletes.
Pag*SI406S
(35) Dole Amendment No. 3075, to authorize the
number of Marine Corps officers to be on active
duty in the grade of lieutenant general is increased
by one, contingent on a Marine Corps lieutenant
general serving as Direaor of the Department of
Task Force on Drug Enforcement.
Pog* $14073
(36) Hawkins-Helms Amendment No. 3076, to
authorize the Secretary of Agriculmre to expand law
enforcement programs necessary to prevent the
manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of marijuana
and other controlled substances on National
Forest System lands. .
Pog* S14073
(37) Levin-DeConcini Amendment No. 3077, to
provide a mandatory minimum sentence for juvenile
drug traffickers.
Pog* S1407S
(38) Domenici Amendment No. 3080, to conform
certain provisions of the bill to the requirements of
the Congressional Budget ACT of 1974.
Pag*SI40S7
(39) Chiles Amendment No. 3081, to correct
drafting errors to clarify the intent of section 1451.
Pog* S140SS
Rejected:
Dixon Amendment No. 3059, to provide that the
President shall deploy equipment and personnel of
the Armed Forces to address the unlawful penetration
of United States borders by aircraft and vessels
carrying narcotics, through the use of pursuit aircraft,
radar coverage, and with the use of National
D1204 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST September 27,198S'
Guard and Reserves. (By. 72 yeas to 14 nays (Vote
No, 299). Senate t^led the antendment.)
$14007
Withdrawn:
(1) Mattingly Amendment No. 3060, to provide
for the imposition of the death penalty for certain
continuing criminal enterprise drug offenses. (By 23
yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 300), Senate earlier failed
to table the amendment.)
p0e«St4OI6
(2) Helms Amendment No. 3078, to provide for
the inclusion of certain drug-related information on
passports.
faga S14076
(3) Mathias-Moynihan Amendment No. 3079, to
establish the American Conservation Corps.
Pa«« si4ors
A unanimous<onsent agreement was reached providing
for further consideration of the bill and
amendments proposed thereto on Tuesday, September
30.
Pafl*St4150
Tax Reform Atrt of 198^—Conference Report: By
74 yeas to 23 nays (Vote No. 296), Senate agreed to
the conference report on H.R. 3838, to reform the
Internal Revenue laws of the United States.
Pdfl*$l3S67
Measures, Ordered Placed on Calendar: faga si4io5
Statements on Introduced Bills: Pa** si4i05
Additional Cosponsors: Pd«« si41M
Amendments Submitted: Po«» si4107
Additional Statements: Pa** sum
Record Votes: Rve record votes were taken today.
(Total—300)
Pa«M SISM4, S13980, S139tP. S14014, 514022
Recess: Senate convened at 8 a.m., and recessed on
Sunday, September 28, 1986, at 2:21 a.m., until 11:30
a.m., on Monday, September 29, 1986. (For Senate
program, see the remarks of Senator Simpson in
today's Record on page S14136.)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Floor Supplement #117-A
Editor, Judy Myer. September 27. 1986
U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE
Calendar William L. Armstrong, Chairman
S. 2878: THE SENATE BIPARTISAN DRUG BILL
H.R. 5484 THE OMNIBUS DRUG ACT
REPORTED: Not reported out of committee.
POSSIBLE UNPRINTED AMENDMENTS
Hawkins. U.S. - Mexico trade and drug interdiction.
Hawkins. Strengthen authority of U.S. Forest Service to deal with growers and traffickers on federal
lands.
D'Amato. Additional authority for Customs Service.
D'Amato. Ban ballistic knives.
Gorton. Relating to cyanide contamination of food.
Gorton. $10 million authorization of Landsat (satellite monitoring).
Unknown. Certain provisions from S. 1903, the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act, relating to
licensing of commercial bus and truck drivers, standardized blood alcohol content, and roadside testing
of drivers.
Domenici. Resolution on media drug use.
Domenici. Commission on media Ad Council against drugs.
Domenici. Relating to homeless persons' eligibility for benefit programs.
Stevens. Concerning drug testing of employees in sensitive or critical positions.
Abdnor. Create a Customs Auxiliary.
Hatch. Technical amendment regarding new funds for ADAMHA and VA.
Weicker. Technical amendment regarding receptor research (relating to drug addiction).
Durenberger. Concerning drug treatment under Federal Employee Health Benefit Program.
Durenberger. Study of drug treatment available in private sector.
Simpson. Provision from S.2850, giving INS agents general arrest authority.
Murkowski. Mansfield exemption for Coast Guard.
Denton. Merit pay at DBA.
Unknown. Amendments to Rehabilitation Act conceming disciplinary actions against employees,
private and/or public sector, who use illegal drugs.
Unknown. Mandatory minimum penalty for providing drugs to juveniles or for using juveniles in drug
traffic or for dealing within 1,000 feet of school.
S. 2878 2 LEGISLATIVE NOTICE
Wilson, Establish new suicide prevention program.
Mathias. Establish the American Conservation Corps. Abo, in case of drug offenders, allow suspension
or deferment of sentencing for first offense for simple possession, if person enrolls in the Corps. Evans.
White House Conference.
Unknown. Provisions of S. 2578, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, with possible
amendment thereto concerning Dial-a-pom.
Harkin. $7 million to Civil Air Patrol.
Chiles. Allow State and local governments to receive up to 10% of federal taxes obtained as result of
investigations assisted by those governments.
Bentsen. Additional funds for secure radio communication by FBI, DEA, and Secret Service.
Kerry. Investigation of alleged drug dealing by Nicaragua Freedom Fighters.
Kennedy. Halt funding to Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua unless DEA certifies, every 6 months, that
there is no involvement in drug traffic.
Kennedy. Specify TASC (Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes) as eligible recipient for state and
local law enforcement grants.
Deconcini. Restore Drug Diversion Program, eliminated under provision of the bill.
Staff Contact: Bill Gribbin, x42946
September 26, 1986
JUDICIARY
TITLE I: ANTI-DRUG ENFORCEMENT
A. Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986
This section sets forth a series of amendments to stiffen
penalties for large-scale domestic drug trafficking. This
penalty section incorporates penalty provisions from both the
Democrat and Republican drug packages. Provides for increased,
stiff penalties for most drug related offenses. The most serious
drug traffickers, so-called "drug kingpins", would face a
mandatory minimum of ten years, and up to life imprisonment.
This bill also increases fines, to reflect the enormous profits
generated by drug dealing. Prohibits suspension of sentences and
prohibits probation and parole.
Also included, S. 1236 — Technical amendments to the
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1983, as modified.
B. Drug Possession Penalty Act
This section rewrites the penalty provisions for simple
possession of controlled substances. These stiff new penalties
include increased fines, mandatory imprisonment for second time
offenders, and repeal of pre-trial diversion for first
offenders.
C. Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986
This section provides for additional penalties for persons
who make use of juveniles in drug trafficking. Doubles penalties
for employing or using children to distribute drugs, and also
doubles penalties for manufacturing drugs near schools.
D. Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986
This section provides for the forfeiture of substitute assets
where the proceeds of a specified crime are lost, beyond judicial
reach, substantially diminished, or commingled.
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Cap Removal From Forfeiture Funds
The Department of Justice has a forfeiture fund generated
from seizures of assets in drug related prosecutions. The assets
consist of cash and proceeds of sales of these assets. By law,
these funds can be used for certain law enforcement purposes.
However, there is a cap, administered by the Appropriations
Committee, on how much of the funds can be used each year. This
cap undercuts the basic purpose of the funds which is to have the
seized proceeds of criminal activities help finance the war on
crime. The Senate compromise bill would remove the cap on the
fund and would remove it from the budget allocation process. The
bill would not prevent the funds from being sequestered, if there
were a sequester.
E. Controlled Substances Analogs Enforcement Act of 1986
(Designer Drugs)
This section makes it unlawful to manufacture with the intent
to distribute, or to possess "designer drugs" intended for human
consumption.
The compromise provision is identical to S. 1437 as it passed
the Senate last December, with the exception of the addition of
conforming amendments and stiffer penalties. These conforming
amendments incorporate the prohibition of controlled substances
analogs elsewhere in the criminal code where reference is made to
controlled substances.
F. Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of 1986
Increases fines for the most serious drug kingpins and
includes mandatory life imprisonment for the absolute top drug
traffickers under certain conditions.
G. Controlled Substances Import and Export Penalties
Enhancement Act of 1986
This section imposes stiffer penalties for import and export
violations similar to those established elsewhere in the Senate
compromise proposal.
H. Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986
This section of the compromise package provides an offense
for laundering the proceeds of certain specified crimes. This
section closely tracks the language of S. 2683, which has passed
the Senate.
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I. Armed Career Criminals
The compromise bill includes the language of S. 2312.
Present law defines an armed career criminal as an individual who
has three or more convictions for "robbery or burgulary". Under
current law, if a career criminal is convicted of possession of a
firearm, he must be sentenced to 15 years. S. 2312, which was
reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee, redefines an armed
career criminal as an individual who has three or more
convictions "for a crime of violence" or "a serious drug offense,
or both".
J. Authorization of Appropriations for Drug Law Enforcement
K. Deleted
L. State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance
Provides $115 million to state and local law enforcement
agencies for drug law enforcement. The Federal share would be
75%, the state share 25%.
M. Study on the Use of Existing Federal Buildings as Prisons
The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study to identify
any building owned or operated by the United States which could
be used, or modified for use, as a prison by the Federal Bureau
of Prisons.
N. Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study
The National Drug Enforcement Policy Board, in consultation
with the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System and state
and local law enforcement officials, shall study Federal drug law
enforcement efforts and make recommendations. The Board shall
report to Congress within 180 days of enactment of this subtitle
on its findings and conclusions.
0. Deleted
P. Narcotic Traffickers Deportation Act of 1986
This section simplifies the current provisions of the
Immigration and Nationality Act authorizing the exclusion and
deportation of individuals convicted of drug related crimes, and
specifies the violation of foreign drug laws as grounds for
deportation or exclusion.
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Q. Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act
This provision provides rewards to those assisting with the
arrest and conviction of persons guilty of killing or kidnapping
a Federal drug agent. (formerly S. 630)
R. Common Carrier Operation Under the Influence of Alcohol
or Drugs
This provision makes it a Federal criminal offense to operate
or direct the operation of a common carrier while intoxicated as
a result of using alcohol or drugs. (formerly S. 850)
S. Freedom of Information Act
This section will prohibit public disclosure of law
enforcement investigative information that could reasonably be
expected to alert drug dealers and organized crime of law
enforcement activity related to them. A Drug Enforcement
Administration study found that 14% of all drug enforcement
investigations were significantly compromised or cancelled due to
public disclosure of information related to these investigations
and informants involved in them. The Director of the FBI and the
Department of Justice support this legislation. As well, this
language was unanimously approved by the Senate in the 98th
Congress.
T. Prohibition on the Interstate Sale and Transportation of
Drug Paraphernalia
The Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act, prohibits the
sale and transportation of drug paraphernalia through the
services of the Postal Service or in interstate commerce. It
also provides for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of
drug paraphernalia.
U. Manufacturing Operations
Outlaws operation of houses or buildings, so-called "crack
houses", where "crack", cocaine and other drugs are manufactured
and used.
V. Study Related to Drug Crime Reporting
This section requires that the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other
Federal enforcement agencies as well as other Federal, state and
local statistics groups, gather, compile, and publish
comprehensive data on drug trafficking and abuse.
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W. Study Related to Precursor and Essential Chemical Review
This section requires that the Attorney General conduct a
study concerning the need for legislative, regulation, or other
alternative methods to control the diversion of legitimate
precursor and essential chemicals to the illegal production of
drugs of abuse.
X. Controlled Substances Technical Amendments Act of 1986
This section makes technical corrections to the Controlled
Substances Act. The provisions of this subtitle were passed by
the Senate when it passed S. 1236 on April 17, 1986. The
provisions of this subtitle were included in the House Drug Bill,
the Senate Democrat Drug Bill, the Senate Republican Bill and the
Administration package.
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TITLE II. INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
Strengthening U.S. Narcotics Control Efforts Abroad
1. Authorization of Funds
Authorizes $75 million in additional narcotics assistance for
FY 1987, provided that the President submit a plan on how $45
million of those additional funds are to be used. $10 million of
the funds are to be used for interdiction and eradication
aircraft, primarily in Latin America.
2. Restrictions on Aid to Foreign Countries
Revamps present law governing foreign aid, favorable U.S.
votes in multilateral development banks, and Generalized System
of Preferences tariff benefits to narcotics producing and
narcotics transit countries. Under bipartisan provision, these
benefits will be denied all major illicit drug producing
countries or major drug-transit countries unless the President
annually certifies that the country is cooperating fully with the
United States in combatting narcotics production, trafficking,
and narcotics money laundering, or is taking adequate steps on
its own. The President may give a positive certification to an
otherwise uncertifiable country for "vital national interest
reasons", but reasons must be fully explained in the
certification. All certifications are subject to Congressional
resolutions of disapproval under expedited procedures.
3. Retention of Title on Aircraft
U.S. Government will retain title to interdiction/eradication
aircraft provided under foreign assistance to the maximum extent
practicable. Contains finding that Mexico has used U.S. provided
aircraft inefficiently.
4. Records of Aircraft Use
Secretary of State required to keep detailed records of
aircraft provided to Mexico, and make them available to Congress
upon request of the Chairmen.
8. Mansfield Amendment
Amends present "Mansfield amendment" which prohibits U.S.
participation in arrests overseas. U.S. personnel may "assist"
in arrests, but not make arrests directly. They may take
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reasonable self~defense actions in such actions^ Applies to all
countries unless the President certifies for an individual
country that it is against the national interest.
11. Conditions on Assistance for Bolivia
In light of Bolivian cooperation in Operation Blast Furnace,
1987 conditions on assistance are changed. First half of
assistance is conditioned on continued cooperation in
interdiction operations, second half assistance on development of
plan to eradicate coca and demonstrated progress in meeting
plan's objectives.
15. Intelligence Support to Combatting the Drug Problem
Makes collection of data on narcotics production and
trafficking a priority one task for the intelligence community in
the yearly intelligence strategy report. Specific mandate is
given to collect sufficient data so that highly reliable
estimates may be made of narcotic crop production and yields for
major producing countries.
16. Reports on Certain Countries; Restrictions on Assistance
President must list countries which as a matter of policy
promote narcotics trafficking, have senior officials involved, in
which U.S. drug enforcement personnel have suffered violence at
the hands of officials of that country, or have failed to provide
reasonable requests for law enforcement cooperation, including
aerial pursuit of smugglers. No foreign aid may be provided, and
MDB aid must be opposed for any listed country unless President
certifies overriding national interest, assistance would improve
prospects for cooperation with country in halting flow of illegal
drugs, and the government of such country has made bona fide
efforts to investigate crimes against U.S. drug enforcement
personnel.
Other Provisions
5. $1 million earmark for research on aerial herbicide for
coca
6. GAG study on narcotics assistance programs
7. Report on extradition cooperation
9. Report on U.S. system to prevent visas being provided to
drug trafficking
10. Mandates a threat assessment of drug trafficking in
Africa
12. Report by President on steps taken to combat
narco-terrorism
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13. Call for Secretary of State and Coast Guard to negotiate
new interdiction procedures with foreign countries for
vessels of foreign registry.
14. Adds Secretary of State to decisions on posse comitatus
17. U.S. Executive Directors to MDBs directed to support
programs of drug eradication
18. Deleted
19. Deleted
20. Deleted
21. Declares drugs a national security problem and President
urged to engage NATO allies in cooperative programs
22/ 23. Supports UN Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking
24. Mandates study of effectiveness of UN drug programs.
25. Calls for more effective implementation of international
drug conventions.
26. Call for a Mexico-United States Intergovernmental
Commission
27, 28. Reports on opium production in Pakistan, Iran,
Afghanistan and Laos
29. $2 million for USIA drug education programs
30. $3 million AID authorization for drug education programs
31. Report on international drug education programs.
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Title III. INTERDICTION
A. National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act of 1986
This section includes the authorization contained in the FY
1987 DoD Authorization bill providing $212.1 million for enhanced
intelligence collection activities and for drug interdiction
aircraft and aerostat radar to be used by the U.S. Customs
Service and the U.S. Coast Guard.
It authorizes an additional $90 million for DoD aircraft and
aerostat radar to be used by civilian agencies in drug
interdiction efforts.
It provides $45 million for DoD to purchase radar systems for
Coast Guard surveillance aircraft and $15 million for the
Tactical Law Enforcement Team
It provides additional authorizations in the amount of $153
million for the Coast Guard and $115.90 million for the Customs
Service. It also authorizes $25 million for the establishment of
command, control, communications, and intelligence (C-3l) centers
and $7 million for drug interdiction helicopters for Hawaii.
This section allows Coast Guard personnel to be assigned to
naval vessels to assist in drug interdiction and mandates that at
least 500 Coast Guard members be so assigned each year.
It establishes a joint United States-Bahamas Drug
Interdiction Task Force and authorizes $15 million to implement
the task force.
B. Customs Enforcement Act of 1986
This section:
Clarifies definitions in the Tariff Act.
Increases vessel arrival reporting requirements and provides
substantial criminal and civil penalties for violating the
arrival reporting requirements.
Clarifies existing law to require that persons arriving in
the U.S. as pedestrians immediately report their arrival to the
U.S. Customs Service.
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Establishes forfeiture and fines as the penalties for failure
to declare items which are imported and increases the penalties
for filing false manifests and for unlawfully unloading
merchandise.
Makes it unlawful to possess merchandise while knowing or
intending that it be unlawfully introduced into the U.S. or to
transfer merchandise between an aircraft and a vessel on the high
seas if the plane or boat is of U.S. nationality or if the
circumstances indicate that the purpose is to introduce the
merchandise into the U.S. in violation of U.S. law. Violators
are subject to civil and criminal penalties and civil forfeiture.
Streamlines the procedure for forfeiture of conveyances for
payment of penalties. It also provides for the forfeiture of
conveyances used to transport controlled substances, but provides
for the return of the conveyance if it is determined that neither
the owner nor the operator of the conveyance knew nor should have
known about the presence of the contraband.
Expands the Customs civil search and seizure warrant to cover
any article subject to seizure, such as conveyances and monetary
instruments, rather that just imported merchandise.
Amends the Tariff Act to treat amounts tendered in lieu of
merchandise subject to forfeiture in the same manner as the
proceeds of sale, so that they may be deposited in the Forfeiture
Fund, and to allow agency expenditures to be paid before liens.
Allows Secretary of the Treasury to exercise some discretion
in determining the amount of rewards for informants.
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to require landing
certificates to comply with international obligations, such as
bilateral or multilateral agreements to reduce or prevent
smuggling.
Clarifies the Secretary's authority to exchange information
with foreign customs and law enforcement agents.
Grants the Secretary authority to operate customs facilities
in foreign countries and to extend U.S. Customs laws to foreign
locations (with the consent of the country concerned).
Authorizes the Secretary to utilize commercial "cover"
corporations and bank accounts and to lease property and pay for
services without complying with the normal requirements which
would reveal government involvement when such activities are
needed in authorized investigative operations. It also makes
clear that the usual laws governing banking deposits and space
rentals do not apply in such undercover operations.
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Establishes that, while documented yachts d6 not have to make
formal entry, they must report their arrival to customs and
declare any goods on board.
Eliminates restrictions on the ability of Customs officers to
enlist the aid of other law enforcement officers or civilians in
apprehending violators, raises the penalties for failure to
render assistance, and provides protection for civilians who
render such aid.
Raises the amount which must be reported by a person who
exports or imports monetary instruments to §10,000.
Makes it unlawful for a U.S. citizen or a person aboard a
U.S. aircraft to possess controlled substances with an intent to
manufacture or distribute or for any person aboard an aircraft to
possess with an intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled
substance knowing or intending that it be unlawfully introduced
in the U.S.
Provides criminal penalties for for wilfully operating
aircraft at night without lights in conjunction with drug
trafficking and for the willful use and/or installation of
unlawful fuel systems in aircraft. It also subjects unlawful
fuel systems and the aircraft in which they are installed to
seizure and civil forfeiture.
C. Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Act of 1986
This section resolves prosecutorial problems which arise
during criminal trials as a result of the execution of existing
authority, which allows the Coast Guard to stop and board certain
vessels at sea and make arrests and seizures for violations of
U.S. laws.
In addition, this section creates a new offense to make it
unlawful under U.S. law to possess with intent to distribute a
controlled substance aboard a vessel located within the
territorial sea of another country where that country
affirmatively consents to enforcement action by the U.S.
D. Reports on Department of Defense Drug Control Activities
This section requires the National Drug Enforcement Policy
Board to report to Congress on the manner and extent to which the
Department of Defense should be involved in drug law enforcement
activities.
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It also mandates a joint National Drug Enforcement Policy
Board/Department of Education report to Congress on drug
education efforts in schools operated by the Department of
Defense.
E. Driving While Impaired by Drug Intoxication to be
Punishable Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice
This section makes it an offense under the U.S. Code of
Military Justice to drive while under the influence of drugs.
F. Drug Interdiction Assistance to Civilian Law Enforcement
Officials
This section permits the Department of Defense to loan
personnel to civilian law enforcement agencies to operate and
maintain equipment used by those agencies to assist foreign
governments in drug interdiction activities.
G. Air Safety
This section establishes a Federal violation for the use of
an unregistered or fraudulently aircraft in conjunction with
transporting controlled substances and provides for the seizure
of such aircraft. It also allows States to impose criminal
penalties for the use or attempted use of forged or altered
aircraft registrations.
H. Communications
This section would authorize the Federal Communications
Commission to revoke the licenses of individuals who use their
licenses for drug-related activities and to seize communications
equipment used in such activities.
I. Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study
The National Drug Enforcement Policy Board, in consultation
with the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System and State
and local law enforcement officials, shall study Federal drug law
enforcement efforts and make recommendations. The Board shall
report to Congress within 180 days of enactment of this section
on its findings and conclusions.
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j. Emergency Assistance by Department of Defense Personnel
The first subsection, by slightly amending existing statutes,
provides for limited use of the military in drug interdiction.
Current law allows the use of military personnel and equipment
outside of the land area of the U.S. to enforce the Controlled
Substances Act or to transport civilian law enforcement officers
seeking to enforce the Controlled Substance Act upon the
declaration of an "emergency circumstance" by the Attorney
General and the Secretary of Defense. The bill clarifies the
term "emergency circumstance" by declaring that an emergency
circumstance exists when: (1) the size and scope of the
suspected criminal activity in a given situation poses a serious
threat to the interests of the United States; and (2) enforcement
of the law would be seriously impaired if assistance were not
provided. It also mandates that the Secretary of State shall be
consulted prior to declaration of any emergency circumstance.
The second subsection allows military personnel to intercept
vessels and aircraft for the purpose of identifying, monitoring,
and communicating the location and movement of the vessel or
aircraft until such time as Federal, State, and local law
enforcement officials can assume responsibility. Current law
provides that the military may not be used to interdict or to
interrupt the passage of vessels or aircraft.
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TITLE IV. DEMAND REDUCTION
A. Treat.ment and Rehabilitation
This title reauthorizes the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental
Health Services Block Grant at higher funding levels of $675
million. Five percent is set aside for model community programs
aimed at high risk. Of these funds, the Secretary, acting
through the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration,
shall reserve $125 million for state alcohol and drug abuse
treatment programs to be distributed on the basis of population
and need.
This title also eliminates various restrictions now imposed
on states on the uses of funds under the alcohol and drug abuse
provisions under the block grant except that at least 80 percent
shall be used for alcohol and drug treatment and rehabilitation
services.
Another provision tracks previously reported legislation from
the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, S. 2595, "The
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Amendments of 1985" with
certain modifications. The modifications which include the
following:
One year reauthorization at $129 million for the National
Institute of Drug Abuse and $69 million for the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism? deletion of sections
10 and 11? addition of the following provisions:
The title further requires that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall prepare a National Plan to Combat Drug
Abuse.
The title establishes an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Clearinghouse
for the dissemination of materials concerning education and
prevention of drug abuse.
Additionally, we require the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, through the FDA, to conduct a study of alkyl and butyl
nitrates and report to the appropriate Congressional committees
as to whether this substance should be treated as a drug under
the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
The section also provides $11 million in new treatment funds
for veterans programs.
B. Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986
This title contains a provision which authorizes a new $150
million state-administered grant program to establish drug free
schools and communities. Of this amount, at least $80 million
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will be available for state (10%) and local (90%) education
agencies. The remaining $50 million shall be made available to
community prevention and education programs.
The Secretary of Education shall retain $20 million for
national programs of which $10 million is used for regional
training centers. In addition, the Secretary of Education and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide
assistance to communities and schools where appropriate.
C. Action
Current law authorizes approximately $2 million under the
direction of ACTION for volunteer demonstration projects, of
which about $500,000 is currently allocated to drug abuse
prevention, education and treatment through the use of
volunteers. This provision would increase the current
authorization by $3 million, which would be earmarked for
expansion of the drug program.
D. The Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and
Treatment Act of 1986
The primary purpose of this title is to authorize the
development and implementation of a coordinated, comprehensive
program for the prevention and treatment of alcohol and substance
abuse among Indian tribes and their members. In order to better
focus some of the existing programs of alcohol and substance
abuse, this title directs the two Departments, Interior and
Health and Human Services, having primary responsibility for
Federal programs of assistance to American Indians, to enter into
a Memorandum of Agreement.
Recognizing the vested interest and the authority of the
tribes over their members, this title provides for the tribes to
develop and implement their own coordinated approach, tailored to
the local needs, through Tribal Action Plans.
The programs authorized in this title include a number of
programs targeting Indian youth, including authority for the
construction of emergency shelters, juvenile detention centers,
and regional treatment centers.
Finally, to ensure that the current and new programs will be
effective, this title provides for the training of key tribal,
Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel in
the areas of alcohol and substance abuse.
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TITLE V. TAX CHECKOFF
When taxpayers file their income tax returns, they would be
allowed to designate that all or part of any refund due be
contributed to a Drug Addiction Prevention Trust Fund. Taxpayers
may also make additional contributions to the Trust Fund at the
time they file their tax returns.
iinc.nui-iciiv 1 nu. ^dxciiuac i>o
Purpose: To eliminate the sugar quota of countries with
governments involved in the trade of narcotics illegal in the
United States, to maintain the sugar quota for specified
countries, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—99th Cong., 2d Sess.
Referred to the Committee on and
ordered to be printed
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed
Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Helms, for himself.
Mr. Zorln'skVf. Mrs. Hawkins. Mr. Meloher. Mr. Hatch ^ ('Ar .
Viz
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5
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10
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At the end of the bill, add the following:
Sec. _. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law:
(1) The President may not allocate any limitation
imposed on the quantity of sugar to
(AO any major illicit drug producing country or
major- drug-transit country, as determined by the
President, or;
(B) any foreign country that imports sugar
produced in Cuba, determined by the President.
(2) The President shall—
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1 (A) use all authorities available to the
2 President as is necessary to enable the Secretary of
3 Agriculture to operate the sugar program established under
4 section 201 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C.
5 1446) at no cost to the Federal Government by preventing
6 the accumulation of sugar acquired by the Commodity Credit
7 Corporation; and
8 (B) subject to paragraph 1, and to the extent
9 possible, subject to subparagraph (A), allocate any
10 limitation imposed on the quantity of sugar entered during
1 1 calendar year 1987 among foreign countries in a manner
12 that.ensures that the total quantity of sugar allocated
1 3 under such limitation to each beneficiary country for
14 calendar year 1987 is not less than the total quantity of
s
15 sugar entered during quota year 1986 that are products of
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16 such beneficiary country.
17 (b) For purposes of this section --
18 (1) The term "beneficiary country" --
1 9 (A) has the meaning given to such term by
20 section 212(a)(1) of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery
21 Act (19 U.S.C. 2702(a)(1)); and
22 (B) includes the Republic of the Philippines and
23 the Republic of Ecuador.
24 (2) The term "entered" means entered, or withdrawn
25 from warehouse, for consumption in the customs territory
26 of the United States.
27 (3) The term "customs territory of the United
28 States" means the States, the District of Columbia, and
29 Puerto Rico.
Law/Judiciary
Senate Takes Up Compromise Anti-Drug Bill
Despite protests that it was acting
too hastily, the Senate Sept. 26 appeared
headed toward passage of a bipartisan
"consensus" bill (HR 5484)
aimed at stepping up the nation's war
on illegal drugs.
The measure authorizes about
$1.5 billion for drug interdiction,
eradication, prevention, education and
treatment efforts. It also authorizes
grants to state and local governments
to aid in drug law enforcement.
The House passed its own, more
sweeping version of the bill Sept. 11.
The Senate adopted an amendment to
that measure substituting the provisions
of S 2878, introduced late Sept.
25 by Majority Leader Robert Dole,
R-Kan., and Minority Leader Robert
C. Byrd, D-W.Va. (House bill provisions,
p. 2192)
Controversial Items Dropped
The Dole-Byrd bill did not contain
several controversial provisions of
earlier versions introduced Sept. 23 by
Senate Republicans IS 2850) and Sept.
9 by Senate Democrats (S 2798). (GOP
package. Weekly Report p. 2191)
Omitted, for example, was a Democratic
proposal to create a Cabinetlevel
"drug czar" to oversee and coordinate
federal drug enforcement
efforts. The Reagan administration
has long opposed that idea.
Also dropped were provisions
from the Republican bill that would
have authorized the death penalty for
several federal crimes, including murder
committed in the course of a continuing
drug enterprise, and would
have weakened the so-called exclusionary
rule that prohibits illegally obtained
evidence from being offered in
court. Similar provisions are in the
House-passed drug bill.
The consensus measure also
dropped from the GOP bill provisions,
included at President Reagan's request,
to make clear that the government
could implement a mandatory
drug-testing program for federal
workers in "sensitive" positions. Reagan
Sept. 15 issued an executive order.
No. 12564, requiring such testing.
—By Julie Rouner
It was not clear Sept. 26 whether
amendments would be offered to add
back the death penalty, exclusionary
rule, drug-testing and drug-czar provisions.
But such moves were expected
to produce a pitched battle on the
floor if they developed.
The compromise Senate bill contained
GOP provisions increasing the
military's involvement in the drug
war. The measure, however, did not
contain House language authorizing
military personnel to make arrests.
Costs and How to Cover Them
The bill's price tag for fiscal 1987
was expected to fall between the $1.3
billion of the Republican version and
the $1.6 billion cost of the Democratic
measure. As passed by the House, HR
5484 authorized a total of $2.87 billion
in new funds for fiscal 1987.
The House and Senate disagree
on where the money would come from.
A governmentwide continuing
"If we vote for legislation
to win an election and
trample the Constitution
in the process, we have not
served the country very
well."
—Sen. Daniel J. Evans,
R-Wash.
funding resolution (H .1 Res 738)
passed by the House Sept. 25 provided
$2.1 billion for anti-drug efforts
through an across-the-board cut of '/a
of 1 percent in other discretionary
programs. (Story, p. 2261)
The Senate consensus bill, however,
includes a controversial plan offered
by Dole to allow federal taxpayers
to check off a box on their tax form
to forgo a portion of any refund owed
and earmarK it instead for anti-drug
efforts. Taxpayers not receiving refunds
could use the checkoff to make
contributions to anti-drug efforts.
Dole has estimated that the checkoff
could raise $500 million next year.
Dole's plan, announced before the
House passed its bill, drew scorn on
the other side of the Capitol. "I don't
think this should be a volunteer effort,"
said Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the House Select Committee
on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
"I don't see them proposing a tax
checkoff for aid to the (Nicaraguan)
'contras.'"
The tax checkoff, along with
other provisions of the bill, ruffled
feathers in the Senate, as well.
The night the Dole-Byrd bill was
introduced, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., RConn.,
lodged a formal objection to it
on grounds that the checkoff raised
revenue — making it legislation that
must originate in the House under Article
I of the Constitution. That forced
sponsors to transform S 2878 into a
substitute amendment to the Housepassed
HR 5484.
Weicker and other moderate Republicans
also complained about the
speed with which the Senate was acting
on a measure they considered constitutionally
suspect.
"The bill before us is a rough
draft," said Charles McC. Mathias Jr.,
R-Md. "It's ore that needs refining."
Even before seeing the final version,
Daniel J. Evans,. R-Wash., denounced
what he called a "sanctimonious
election stampede that will
trample the Constitution."
"If we vote for legislation to win
an election and trample the Constitution
in the process, we have not served
the country very well," he said. |
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THtWumciiw POST
pports Antidrug Plan
But Imposition of Death Penalty, Use of Military Are Rejected
By Dewu
The Senjie endoned a sweeping
cafnpajRn-season antidrug plan ear*
ly yesterday after sidetracking
more drasbc House-approved proposals,
includiog imposition of the
death peoaJly in major narcotics
cases and use the military to
combat drug smuggling.
Stopping just ^rt of passing the
legislation after a gruehng Saturday
session that lasted until after 2 a.m.
yesterday, the Senate put off a final
vote until financing details can be
worked out and all senators will be
on hand lor the roll call
The Senate signaled support lor
the death penalty but excluded it
aid »evera] other controversial provisions.
including mandatory drug
testing favored by President Reagan.
to avert filibusters by critics
who charged that the Constitution
was being trampled" in the cause
of curbing drug abuse.
It was the first major bump in the
road for the antidrug bandwagon
that has found Democrats and Republicans
in an almost frantic race
to provide lough fiitfed responses to
what both parties see as a mounting
public demand for action against the
spread of drugs.
Hut. aside from the most controversial
provisions of the House bill,
the two chambers' measures are
aimilar in seeking to pump mllliona
of dollars Into new interdiction, law*
cnforccn>ent. education and treatmeni
programs to fight drug abuse.
Knactment with Reagan's signature
is expected if the two houseii
can resolve the death penalty and
other issues without running into a
Senate filibuster, which couM delay
or even jeopardize passage before
Congress adjourns in the next week
or two. The Senate is expected to
pass the bill and send it to conference
by midweek.
The 250-page bill authorizes
$1.4 billion, financed in part by a
voluntary Income-tax refund checkoff.
for everything ranging from
international cooperation to destroy
drug ^eduction at the source to
local programs for treatment of vie*
lima. The House bill includes at
least $2 billion for similar purposes.
About half of the total would go
toward improv^ Interdiction ef*
foru to keep drugs out of the country,
including an additional $153
mlHion for the Coast Guard. $115
million for the Customs Service and
$135 million for Defense Department
purchase of radar and aircraft
to aid civilian efforts. In addition,
the Senate approved an amendment
ordering (he Pentagon to release
surplus equipment and other assets
for use by civilian agencies.
Another $115 million would be
allocated to state and local law en*
forcemenl agencies on a 3-to-l
iiiatching basis for drug contr^ efforts.
and funds for treatment and
rehabilitation would be increased. A
new $ 1 SO million state-administered
grant program would be set
up to help rid schools and eommunilicn
of drugs.
Penaltle.t for most drug-related
crimes would be increased, including
a mandatory sentence of no lees
than 10 years for "kingpin" traffickera.
a doubling of penalties for using
children (o distnbute drugs and new
penaltiea for knowingly selling
drugs to pregnant womra. "Designer
drugs" would be outlawed, and
new curbs would be put on money
laundering by drug dealers.
Foreign aid would be cut off to
countries that produce or transport
drugs unless the president certifies
that they are cooperating wtth U.S.
antidrug efforts.
Qui. pressed by leaders of both
parlies to hold back what Majority
Leader Robert J. Dole (K*Kan.)
called "blockbuster" amendments.
Democrats gave up their proposal
for a drug<ontrol "cxar" and conservatives
withheld their deathpenalty
proposal along with others
to kx)^ llK exclusionary rule restraining
use of illegally obtained
evidence In court and to restrict
habeas<orpus rights of prisoners to
petjhon for release.
Proposed restrktions on the
Freed^ of Infonnation Act to
avoid alerting drug dealers of pending
moves against them were approved
in modified form.
The only break in the dike came
wheo Sen. Alan J. Dixon (D-Ill.)
pu^ed to order use of the Armed
Forces to hdp seal U.S. borders
against drug smuggling, a modified
version of a House provision that
drew fire on both national security
and civil liberties grounds in (he
Senate. It was defeated, 72 to 14.
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WASHINGTON. D. C.
30 Septemberr 1986
Dear Senator Hecht,
On Saturday evening the Senate appended a provision to
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 Amendment 3053 which reallocates
sugar import quotas between supplying countries. As predictions
are that the overall level of D.S. sugar imports will be cut
next year, this provision would place the burden of such quota
cuts on other supplying countries, principally Australia, a
close ally of the United States,
I want to emphasise to you that Australia cooperates
extremely closely with the U.S. in all aspects of anti-narcotic
liaison. Our two governments are working together at all levels
on this terrible problem. It would surely be grossly wrong in
these circumstances to amend the Anti-Drug Abuse Act in such a
way to heavily penalise Australia.
Australia is a major sugar exporter? the U.S. is a very
important market for us. The level of our exports to the U.S.,
like that of other countries, has been steadily whittled down by
the progressive reduction in the overall level of the U.S.
import quotas. This has contributed to the difficulties facing
our sugar industry and more generally is of concern when seen
against the background of an overall balance in our bilateral
trade that runs two to one in favour of the United States.
Australia's share of U.S. import quotas reflects past
historical performance in this market. The basis used in 1982
to set those import quotas reflects GATT principles. It would
be particularly detrimental to Australia/U.S. trade relations if
the U.S. were now to reallocate quotas on a selective and
discriminatory basis in breach of those principles.
Furthermore, the U.S. would be repudiating a commitment "not to
take any restrictive or distorting measure inconsistent with the
provisions of the General Agreement" that was agreed by all
countries at the recent Punta del Este meeting and which the
U.S. and Australia had fought hard to achieve.
The elimination of Australia's sugar quota would come
on top of other major difficulties that Australia has recently
encountered in its trade relations with the U.S. and would
generate a very adverse reaction in Australia,
We therefore ask that at the very least the existing
provision be amended so that it only relates to drug-related
issues by deleting paragraphs 2 and 3 from the Amendment No,
3053 to the Anti-Drug Abuse Bill,
Yours sincerely.
P. Rawdon Dalrymple
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The Senate overwhelmingly approved
a major antidrug program
yesterday but left unanswered the
critical question of how to pay for it.
The measure, which differs significantly
from the House-passed
antidrug package, was approved, 97
to 2, after the Senate adopted a
nonbiriding resolution pledging not
to cut other programs to fund a national
war on drugs.
Senate leaders were unable to
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to see a great exercise In fisjresponsibility
in its wake."
louse and ^nate leaders said
night that they expect to conle
a conference committee to atjpt
to resolve differences hern
the $1.4 billion Senate bill
the more ambitious House
^ sure, which would authorize
|ut $1.7 billion in antidrug prois
in fiscal 1987.
ich a conference would not only
fp to deal with the different fundlevels
but with several other
itional issues involved in Conias'
election-year rush to enact
intidrug program.
'hese include use of the death
ilty in some drug-related murcases.
relaxation of, Titles
linst use o'l iIiegali)(.obtaihed evice
in court and deployment of
military forces in drug-intertion
efforts. These provisions are
Ithe House bill but absent from
Senate measure.
;n. Mack Mattingly (R-Ga.),
iported by Dole, said he will in-
, that the Senate accept the
[use's death-penalty provision.
Hemocratic liberals had exissed
hope that the House would
;ept the Senate version of the
[islation, killing the death-penalty
iposal and other politically ejqiloissues
for this year.
explain where the money would be
found, debying the issue until Congrests
adopts an omnibus spending
bill to fund all government programs
in the fiscal year beginning
today.
Majority Leader Robert J. Dole
(R-Kan.) .said there is little sentiment
to raise taxes to pay for the
program and that he hopes it will
not require Congress to exceed its
budget limits for fiscal 1987.
As a "last resort." Dole said, he
would support using some of the
funds from the temporary windfall
But the tfouse wants other differences
resolved, including a gap
of more than $300 million in how
much will be provided in grants to
state and local governments for antidrug
programs.
Sens. Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.) and
Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) strongly
defended the Senate decision to
delay the funding question.
"What we didn't want was a filibuster
on that bill after dealing
"This is great
politics, this drug
but:'
—Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
with all the other contentious issues,"
Biden said. "We will get the
funding."
The two votes against the bill
were cast by Sens. John Melcher
(D-Mont.) and Gordon J. Humphrey
(R-N.H.). Sen. Jake Gam (R-Utah),
recuperating after donating a kidney
to hia daughter, did not vote.
In its version of the omnibus
spending bill for this fiscal year, the
House imposed, an across-the-board
cut on most other government programs
to provide the more than
$600 million In actual spending this
to the government next year in the
first year under tax-overhaul legislation
awaiting President Reagan's
signature.
The noiibinding resolution on
funding, the la.st i.ssue to be resolved
in the Senate drug bill, was
adopted at the insistence of Sen.
Lowell P, Weicker jr. (R-Conn.),
who threatened a paralyzing endof-
session filibuster if other programs
were cut.
"This is great politics, this drug
bill." Weicker said. "Now you are
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pa.ssagc of either its or the Senate's
antidrug measure.
The nonbinding resolution in
which the Senate rejected this approach
was adopted by voice vote
but not without withering criticism.
Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) said the
resolution highlighted "the ridiculous
bind" in which Congress finds
itself since adoption of the Gramm-
Rudman-Hoilings balanced-budget
law and by "a president who is totally
out of touch with reality."
"We're afraid to say the word
'tax,' " Hart said. "There are too
many people afraid of the president
ami his veto, his rhetoric about
'make my day." We're all dancing
around the edge."
Sen. Daniel J. Evans (R-Wash.)
said, "We're dealing with a 500-
pound gorilla of an issue, and I'm
afraid the Senate is going to come
up with a tiny mouse of an answer."
The Senate and House bills would
stiffen penalties for drug convictions.
increase funding for the Coast
Guard and Customs Service and
transfer some Defense Department
aircraft and radar to civilian agencies
to help in drug-interdiction efforts.
Both would also increase funding
for drug education and rehabilitation
programs and for prison construction.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
July 30, 1986
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As fellow Republicans looking to a President who has shown
great leadership on t)ie drug issue, we would like to request that
you convene a White House Conference on Illicit Drug Use and
Control. We feel that the time is ripe for you to convene a high
visibility, high-level conference where you can issue your
marching orders and solicit the cooperation of all the key
sectors of our society.
The White House Conference would convene not only key
government officials, but also those key movers and shakers from
sectors such as the news media, the entertainment industry,
professional sports, the health profession, the legal profession,
the business community, academla, labor unions, education, and so
on.
We need a White House Conference to facilitate
implementation of existing policy and recommendations, not to
provide a forum for further study, rhetoric, and debate which
would further delay action. The President's Commission on
Organized Crime Just spent over 3 years and about ^3 million to
conrliict an excellent comprehensive study of our Nation's drug
problem. These recommendations liave not received the attention
and focus they clearly deserve from the Congr^s, the Executive
Branch, state and local officials, or the priva'te sector.
In addition, the Congress has charged the National Drug
Policy Enforcement Board to produce a national drug strategy this
summer, which we understand we will be receiving soon.
We are particularly grateful for your recent bold initiative
committing U.S. military personnel and equipment in direct
support of Bolivian military operations against cocaine
laboratories and traffickers. We hope you can build on the
momentum from this successful initiative and the recently
The President
July 30, 1986
Pa^e ?
completed policy studies and reports to expand our efforts,
especially on tlie domestic demand aide of the problem.
This Conference Is Intended as a tribute to your leadership,
and the leadership of the First Lady, on the drug issue. But
clearly more can be done, many government officials and many key
private sector leaders could be prodded to take more effective
action against our drug problem. We believe a White House
Conference will contribute substantially to this cause and we
hope you give our suggestion the most serious consideration.
Sincerely,
1
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riARtOA
UlCnUcb ^Ictlc^ Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20910
July 30, 1986
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As fellow Republicans looking to a President who has shown
great leadership on tlie drug issue, we would like to request that
you convene a White Mouse Conference on Illicit Drug Use and
Control. We feel that the time is ripe for you to convene a high
visibility, high-level conference where you can issue your
marching orders and solicit the cooperation of all the key
sectors of our society.
The White House Conference would convene not only key
government officials, but also those key movers and shakers from
sectors such as the news media, the entertainment industry,
professional sports, the health profession, the legal profession,
the business community, academia, labor unions, education, and so
on.
We need a White House Conference to facilitate
implementation of existing policy and recommendations, not to
provide a forum for further study, rhetoric, and debate which
would further delay action. The President's Commission on
Organized Crime Just spent over 3 years and about ^3 million to
conduct an excellent comprehensive study of our Nation's drug
problem. These recommendations have not received the attention
and focus they clearly deserve from the Congress, the Executive
Branch, state and local officials, or the prlva*te sector.
In addition, the Congress has charged the National Drug
Policy Enforcement Board to produce a national drug strategy this
summer, which we understand we will be receiving soon.
We are particularly grateful for your recent bold initiative
committing U.S. military personnel and equipment in direct
support of Bolivian military operations against cocaine
laboratories and traffickers. We hope you can build on the
momentum from this successful initiative and the recently
The President
July 30, 1986
Paj',e ?
completed policy studies and reports to expand our efforts,
especially on the domestic demand side of the problem.
This Conference Is Intended as a tribute to your leadership,
and the leadership of the First Lady, on the drug Issue. But
clearly more can be done, many government officials and many key
private sector leaders could be prodded to take more effective
action against our drug problem. We believe a White House
Conference will contribute substantially to this cause and we
hope you give our suggestion the most serious consideration.
Sincerely,
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Wh«n A bill oomes befor« the Se3nuaaKtae>, dI ebate uouaU p~^S,oLn, e
H'R- 548^caae ^befores^a^e ai^jraa^ paeaed overwhalmlngly^
/Lnd that'o what ahouU have happened to Chls pleue of legia~'
ion •• The AlJUBB all u£ I90fh—It gjearod the Cenate
without debate;/m was a bipartisan bill everyone could support. MBe
Our nation pays too high a price for drug abuse in terms of lives
lost, families shattered and dreams forsaken. According to the President's
commission on Organized Crime, there are an estimated half-million
heroin addicts in this country; four to five million Americans regularly
use cocaine; and over 20 million Americans regularly use marijuana. The
drug problem is complex. Any effective strategy must involve a comprehensive
approach, including efforts at home and abroad.
This bill provides approximately fgd* million in .wdditioiiel funds for
foreign assistance progr^s to help countries eradicate drugs within their
borders, it -outa off all aid to countries that are major illicit drug
producing countries and have not, either though their own efforts or with
our assistenee, reduced production or transshipment of narcotics.
The bill hopefully will stem the flow of drugs into our ccuntry.
It increases by one-third the current level of funding for interdiction,
including increased funding for the Coast Guard and the Customs Service.
And it rigorously enforces domestic drug control laws. The legialation
Increases penalties for moat drug-related offensesv-and includes e- r y o i i 7 ^
penalty of from-10-yeere-te lite impgisonment jCotf''drug kingpins T The
hill creates new offenses and increases penalties for drug offenses InPage
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volving children, as wall aa Increased fines to strike at the financial
underpinning of organized crime.
Recognizing that we must educate our youth about the dangers of
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locaMschool districts^ for drug abU5o''«n^ education. In utJai a efeate
to qualily-fnr this mnnev -it mnmt- hflye n drug edusatinn-r^ngraTn immlv
ing oohools and anmfiiiL—its ewn woneyr'
This was a piece of legislation all of us could support. Some
of us would have liked to have enacted stronger provisions regarding
the death penalty. But overall this bill will move us in the right
direction, it wisely recognizes the need to reduce both the supply
of, and the demand for, drugs.
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 is a good pieoe of legislation.
Properly administered, it could go a long way toward reversing a trend
bordering on national disgrace.
OCT.
When a bill aomes before the Senate, debate usually is the
rule rather than the exception. But there was no expressed opposition
when H.R. 5484 came before the Senate and was passed overwhelmingly,
97-2,
And that's what should have happened to this piece of legislation
— The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, It cleared the Senate
without debate. It was a bipartisan bill everyone could support.
Our nation pays too high a price for drug abuse in terms of lives
lost, families shattered and dreams forsaken. According to the President's
Commission on Organized Crime, there are an estimated half-million
heroin addicts in this country; four to five million Americans regularly
use cocaine; and over 20 million Americans regularly use marijuana. The
drug problem is complex. Any effective strategy must involve a comprehensive
approach, including efforts at home and abroad.
This bill provides approximately $60 million in additional funds for
foreign assistance programs to help countries eradicate drugs within their
borders. It cuts off all aid to countries that are major illicit drug
producing countries and have not, either though their own efforts or with
our assistance, reduced production or transshipment of narcotics.
The bill hopefully will stem the flow of drugs into our cointry.
It increases by one-third the current level of funding for interdiction,
including increased funding for the Coast Guard and the Customs Service.
And it rigorously enforces domestic drug control laws- The legislation
increases penalties for most drug-related offenses and includes a
penalty of from 10 years to life imprisonment for drug kingpins. The
hill creates new offenses and increases penalties for drug offenses inPage
2, Chat With Chic
volving children, as well as increased fines to strike at the financial
underpinning of organized crime.
Recognizing that we must educate our youth about the dangers of
drug use, the bill provides $150 million in grant money to state and
local school districts for drug abuse and education. In order for a state
to qualify for this money, it must have a drug education program involving
schools and commit its own money.
This was a piece of legislation all of us could support. Some
of us would have liked to have enacted stronger provisions regarding
the death penalty. But overall this bill will move us in the right
direction. It wisely recognizee the need to reduce both the supply
of, and the demand for, drugs.
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 is a good piece of legislation.
Properly administered, it could go a long way toward reversing a trend
bordering on national disgrace.
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Toward Modified Drug Bill
Controversial Provisions Would Be Deleted
By Edward Walsh
WJISLUNGTOA POST S(«LF WNLER
The House Democratic leadership
has tentatively decided to accept
a modified version of the Senate's
antidrug bill in an attempt to
avoid a Senate filibuster against the
death penalty and other controversial
provisions of the House-passed
legi^tion that could prevent enactment
of any drug-control program
this year.
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip)
O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) told a group of
reporters at lunch yesterday that a
version of the Senate-passed bill,
stripped of some provisions that the
House objects to. may be brought to
the House floor next week.
An aide to O'Neill said the modTm:
WASHINGTON POST
ifications will probably include some
increases in funding sought by the
House, but will skirt the most politically
explosive issues the House
added to its antidrug bill, including
use of the death penalty in some
drug-related murder cases.
These controversial provisions—
which also call for a relaxation of
judicial rules against the use of illegally
obtained evidence in court
and deployment of U.S. military
forces in drug-interdiction efforts—
are threatened by a filibuster by
liberal Democrats in the Senate.
That threat was increased this
week by a letter to Majority Leader
Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) from a
group of moderate Republican senators
who also object to several of
the Hou.se provisions.
"We believe that reintroducing
these issues into the debate would
make it extremely difficult, if not
impo.ssible, to complete action on
thi.s vital legislation," the GOP .senators
wrote Dole. "We hope you will
use your good offices to persuade
the House to accept the Senate bill
without a conference,"
One strategy being considered by
the House leadership i.s to bring up
a modified version of the Senate bill
on the House's so-called "consent
calendar," which would require a
two-thirds vote for passage. The
measure could then be enacted if
the Senate accepted the House's
modification of the Senate bill.
This strategy, however, could
face resistance from House Republicans,
who led the effort to include
the death penalty and the other controversial
provisions in the House
bill. With a two-thirds vote neces-
•sary. House- Republicans could defeat
the modified bill, but they
would then be open to election-year
charges that they prevented a national
war on drugs.
"It puts us in a difficult position,"
an aide to House Minority Leader
Robert H. Michel (R-III.) said.
Samn
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The Honorable Strom Thurmond
Chairman
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Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Strom:
I am writing to express my concern over a provision in both the
House of Representative's original, and most recently passed,
version of Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment legislation. This
provision would require financial institutions such as banks and
casinos, among others, to report currency transactions in the
amount of $3,000 or more. Present law on this subject only
requires such reporting for transactions of $10,000 or more.
It is my understanding that a similar provision is absent from the
original Senate-passed'^:version of omnibus drug legislation, and
likewise from the package expected to be considered before the
full Chamber shortly. In light of the fact that I have been
contacted by a number of affected parties in my State who claim
they would be adversely affected by such a requirement, I
would ask that you keep in mind my concern for this matter during
deliberations on a final drug bill.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
CH:gs
PETE WILSON coMMimcs.
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OPPOSE DOMENICI AMENDMENT TO THE DRUG BILL
WOULD LIMIT USE OF SEIZED CRIMINALS' ASSETS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Ic COMMinSS
October 13, 1986
Dear Colleague:
I am writing to urge you to oppose an anticipated attempt
to remove from the bi-partisan drug bill a provision that takes
drug traffickers' profits and uses them to help fund druq
interdiction.
Under present law, when drug smugglers' cash is seized by
the Customs Service and when the assets of convicted drug
traffickers are sold, the money is put into special asset
forfeiture funds. The bi-partisan drug bill contains a
provision that plows back into law enforcement all of these
ill-gotten gains. The Department of Justice and the Customs
Service anticipate that this mechanism will lead to an
additional $75 million being spent in FY 87 for such things as
rewards to citizens who help DBA, drug buy money, and radar and
radio equipment to be used for interdiction.
When the drug bill comes to the floor, an amendment may be
offered by Senator Domenici that would retain the current law
cap mechanism on these funds. This cap has effectively limited
the asset forfeiture funds so that only 25% is being used for
law enforcement; the other 75% goes back into the general fund
of the treasury to fund other, less worthy programs. T ask
that you oppose this amendment.
The problem with present law is that the money in the
forfeiture funds may be used for law enforcement only to the
extent appropriated. Unfortunately, since these funds were
recently established, most of the money has been appropriated
for other uses — not for law enforcement.
. order to make sure that the seized assets from major
criminals are used for law enforcement, it is necessary to
remove the forfeiture funds from the appropriating and budget
scorekeeping process. This is what the bill would do.
4- the Domenici amendment, you are effectively
taking these seized criminal assets and using them for other
than law enforcement purposes. The general programs of the
• should be paid for with tax money. The
windfall from seized criminal assets should be turned against
major criminal activity.
I hop that you will join me in opposing the Domenici
amendment.
Sincerely,
PETE WILSON
17TH DISTRICT, PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE W. GEKAS
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Senator Chic Hecht
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator;
The Senate now has before it consideration of H.R. 5484, the "Omnibus
Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act of 1986." An amendment
sponsored by me, providing for the death penalty for certain continuing
criminal enterprise drug offenses, is contained within that measure.
I would be happy to answer any questions about the death penalty
amendment which you might have. Please feel free to call me in my office
(X54315) any time or have your staff contact my counsel, Ray Smietanka
(x57087) with any comments or questions.
GEORGE W. GEKAS
Member of Congress
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Editor, Judy Myers
Notice #121
October 14,1986
U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE
William L Armstrong, Chairman
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Calendar • • •
H.R. 5484: HOUSE - SENATE DRUG BILL
REPORTED: Not reported out of Committee
[NOTE: THIS NOTICE REPORTS ON THE LATEST VERSION OF THE DRUG PACKAGE BY
HIGHLIGHTING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND SENATE VERSIONS
FOR MORE DETAIL ON THE ORIGINAL SENATE VERSION, PLEASE SEE NOTICE #117.]
BACKGROUND: THE STATE OF PLAY: On Sept. 11, the House passed H.R. 5484. On Sept, 27, the
Senate passed its own version of that bill. Instead of going to conference, the House on October 8, by a
vote of 391 to 23, agreed to a rule under which the adoption of the rule would constitute House
acceptance of H.R. 5484, as amended by the Senate, with a further House amendment in the form of a
bill introduced by Rep. James Wright. The resulting bill is herein referred to as the HOUSE bill. It
will be considered by the Senate, together with the SENATE AMENDMENTS outlined below.
.TITLE I -- ENFORCEMENT Overview: HOUSE maintains many provisions of the SENATE bill in
same, or substantially similar form. These include:
Drug penalties enhancement
Amendments to Controlled Substances Act regarding fines
Drug Possession Penalty Act
Juvenile drug trafficking provisions
Manufacturing controlled substances within 1,000 feet of college
Continuing Drug Enterprise Act
Continuing Criminal Enterprise Act
Controlled substance import and export penalties
Armed career criminals
Mail Order Drug Paraphemalia Control Act
Manufacturing operations provisions
Technical amendments to Controlled Substances Act
Precursor and essential chemical review
Ballistic knives
Electronics Commications Privacy Act
Minimum mandatory sentence for juvenile traffic offenders.
SENATE AMENDMENT will add back certain SENATE provisions dropped in the HOUSE version:
Authority to impose sentence below the statutory minimum
Some provisions concerning asset forfeiture, controlled substances
Analogs, and money laundering
All SENATE provisions concerning Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection and
common carrier operation under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
H.R. 5484 2 LEGISLATIVE NOTICE
• Drug law enforcement assistance:
SENATE had authorized $115 million for a new law enforcement assistance program of grants
to help local governments fight drugs.
HOUSE currently proposes $350 million.
SENATE AMENDMENT authorizes $350 million for FY 1987, $350 million for FY 1988, and
$230 million for FY 1989.
• Dial-a-Pom;
SENATE had prohibited Dial-a-Pom operations.
HOUSE omitted this provision.
SENATE AMENDMENT drops Dial-a-Pom.
• Death penalty:
SENATE had nothing on this subject.
HOUSE permits dea^ penalty for murder committed during course
of continuing drug enterprise.
SENATE AMENDMENT is silent on this subject.
TITLE II - INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
• Funds for International Narcotics Control Assistance:
SENATE bill added $63 million, of which $45 million was (X)ntingent upon submission of
presidential plan for spending it and $10 million is
earmarked for aircraft primarily in Latin America.
HOUSE bill adds $53 million, with same earmark, and requires a formal budget request by
President for the $45 million.
SENATE AMENDMENT restores SENATE language.
• Retention of title to aircraft:
SENATE required retention of title "to the maximum extent practicable."
HOUSE deletes clause.
— SENATE AMENDMENT accepts HOUSE language.
• Restriction of U.S. aid to drug countries:
HOUSE bill revises SENATE provisions requiring reduction in assistance to countries that
produce or traffic in drugs (unless President makes certain certifications); removes GSP
(Generalized System of Preferences) from this section to a separate penalty provision on trade
benefits; does not allow denial of sugar quotas to those countries; and removes specific date for
presidential action.
SENATE AMENDMENT generally maintains SENATE language, keeps SENATE approach to
GSP penalties. Keeps SENATE ban on sugar quota for any country the govemment of which is
involved in drug traffic or fails to cooperate with U.S. enforcement efforts.
• Mansfield Amendment (bars U.S. officials from making arrest in foreign countries):
SENATE allowed U.S. personnel to be present, to assist in arrest, and to protect themselves.
HOUSE gives Sect, of Slate limited waiver authority; allows self defense; permits maritime law
enforcement with agreement of foreign country.
SENATE AMENDMENT restores SENATE language.
• Diplomatic passports for DEA personnel overseas:
HOUSE commends this. No comparable SENATE provision.
SENATE AMENDMENT adopts HOUSE language.
• Bolivia:
SENATE praised Bolivian cooperation, sets conditions for continued
assistance.
HOUSE adds requirement for specific, numerical eradication targets in
future U.S.-Bolivia agreements.
SENATE AMENDMENT calls for "numerical eradication targets" but does not set their levels.
• Mexico:
HOUSE withholds $1 million in narcotics control assistance from Mexico until certain actions
are taken concerning murder and abduction of DEA personnel.
SENATE AMENDMENT (see Sec. 2032) lists problems with Mexico and recommends various
presidential responses, including a "mandatory travel advisory for all of Mexico."
I
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE 3 H.R. 5484
HOUSE requires consultation and pilot programs for crop substitution.
SENATE AMENDMENT omits consultation provision on crop substitution, but retains
SENATE language on similar activities by multilateral development banks.
• Administration of Justice Program:
HOUSE allows $2 million for protection of judges, etc.
SENATE AMENDMENT keeps HOUSE provision without the specific amount
• Miscellaneous:
HOUSE supports $500,000 reward for arrest of Ochoa Vasquez (Colombian drug boss);
SENATE AMENDMENT adopts HOUSE language.
• Intelligence:
SENATE made drug information a priority for intelligence community,
HOUSE simply urges more attention to this.
SENATE AMENDMENT restores SENATE language.
• Pakistan:
HOUSE adds aerial eradication to suggested Pakistan control program.
SENATE AMENDMENT adds HOUSE language.
TITLE 111 - INTERDICTION
• FCC:
SENATE authorized FCC to revoke licenses and seize equipment of those who use it in drug
traffic.
HOUSE omits provision.
SENATE AMENDMENT restores Senate language.
• Civil Air Patrol:
SENATE authorized $7 million from unobligated DoD funds. HOUSE provides $3.5 million
SENATE AMENDMENT conforms with original Senate provision: "up to $7 million."
• Surveillance aircraft:
HOUSE provides for four E2C Hawkeyes to be loaned to Customs and four E2Bs for the Coast
Guard.
SENATE AMENDMENT provides two E2C Hawkeyes to Customs Service and two to the
Coast Guard. Replaces HOUSE funding provision to conform wi± original Senate intent that
funds be new money, not absorbed from existing DoD budget
• Coast Guard:
HOUSE hikes authorization for Coast Guard interdiction to $76 million. SENATE
AMENDMENT increases it to $89 million (for purchase of two C-130 surveillance aircraft with
small reduction in cutters).
TITLE IV -- DEMAND REDUCTION
• Prevention and Treatment:
SENATE added $225 million to ADAMHA block grant; $11 million to VA; no new agency
created. HOUSE creates Agency for Substance Abuse with new program (in addition to
AMADHA) at $228 million, with $28 million of that reserved for ASAP (Alcohol and Substance
Abuse Prevention).
SENATE AMENDMENT restores SENATE provisions.
• Education:
SENATE created $150 million new program of grants to States, with requirement of 62% passthrough
to Slate and local education agencies. HOUSE creates $250 million program, requires
80% pass-through to SEAs and LEAs.
H.R. 5484 4 LEGISLATIVE NOTICE
SENATE AMENDMENT increases total to $200 million, of which $7.5 million is at discretion
of Sect of Education; $7.5 million at discretion of Sect of HHS; $10 million allocated to
regional training centers; $15 million for higher education grants. $160 to States, with split of
65%-35% between school-based and community-based programs. $800,000 minimum grant to
each State.
• ACTION:
SENATE authorized $3 million for each of two years,
HOUSE authorized about $2.5 million for each of two years.
SENATE AMENDMENT accepts House language.
• Miscellaneous:
HOUSE requires S3 million Dept of Labor study on drugs in workplace.
SENATE AMENDMENT allows a study.
TITLE XII - HIGHWAY SAFETY
SENATE set uniform standard for intoxication at .04 blood level; sanctions against States not
in compliance become effective in FY 1993. HOUSE sets intoxication standard at .1 blood
level; sanctions do not kick in until 1996.
SENATE AMENDMENT keeps .04 blood level but requires DoT study of impact of this
standard on operators of commerical vehicles who are required to be available to drive on short
notice. Keeps SENATE sanctions date.
TITLE XV - SENATE POLICY REGARDING FUNDING
The SENATE declares that money to carry out provisions of this act should be provided as
new budget authority for FY 1987, and that such amounts should not be provided by transfeis
from, or reductions in, other spending.
POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS:
Helms. To restore SENATE language prohibiting Dial-a-Pom.
Unknown. To strike HOUSE provision on death penalty.
Unknown, To delete Metzenbaum provisions regarding FDA approval of infant formula.
Hatch-Chiles. To increase ADAMHA block grant by $15 million to $515 million, with no change in setasides
in current law. $186 million additional money is authorized for drug and alcohol treatment and
rehabilitation, as follows: 45% distributed to all States on basis of population, 55% to States on basis of
need (as defined in SENATE bill), $11 million to be transferred to the Veterans Administration, 1% of
total for evaluation of treatment programs. Creates new Office of Substance Abuse within ADAMHA
with $15 million new money and $5 million from Dept of Education, to oversee clearinghouses,
administer demonstration grants for "high risk" youth. Another $20 million is authorized for those
"high risk" programs. Reauthorizes NIAAA at $69 million and NIDA at $129 million (SENATE
figures). Retains Metzenbaum amendment on infant formula Retains Sense of Senate language
oinceming alcohol warning labels and regarding State laws on possession of controlled substances.
Staff Contact: Bill Gribbin, x42946
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United States
t/ America
No. 144—Part H (Eonaressional llecord
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 99^^ CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
Vol. 1)2 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1986 No. 144—Part n
House of Representatives
PROVIDING PGR CONCURRING
IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT
TO THE HOUSE AMENDMENT
TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT
TO THE BILL H.R. 5484, DRUG
ENFORCEMENT. EDUCATION,
AND CONTROL ACT OP 1986,
WITH AN AMENDMENT
iContinued)
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.
KiLDEE>. Pursuant to House Resolution
597, the House is considered to
have concurred In the Senate amendment
to the House amendment to the
Senate amendment with an amendment.
Consisting of the text of H.R.
5729 introduced by Representative
WRIGHT, to H.R. 5484: and. House Concurrent
Resolution 415 is considered as
having been adopted.
The text of the House amendment
to the Senate amendment to the
House amendment to the Senate
amendment provided for by the text
of House Resolution 597 is as follows:
SF.CTHIH /. SHOUT TITIM.
This Acl may be cited aa the "Anti-Drug
Abuse Act of 1986".
sue. I. <iKi:.\siUTiosorACT.
This Act li organized as follows:
TITLE t-ANTl'DRUa ENFORCEMENT
Subtitle A—Narcotics Penalties and
Enforcement Act of 1988
Subtitle B—Drug Possession Penalty Act of
1986
SubliUe C—Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of
1988
Subtitle D—Assets Forfeiture Amendments
Act 0/1986
Subtitle E—Controlled Substance Analogue
Enforcement Act of 1986
Subtitle F—Continuing Drug Enterprise Act
0/1988
Subtitle GR—Controlled Substances Import
and Export Act Penalties Enhancement
Act 0/1988
Subtitle H—Money Laundering Control Act
0/1988
Subtitle I—Armed Coreer Criminals
Subtitle J—Authorieation of Appropriations
for Drug Law Enforcement
Subtitle K—State and Local Narcotics
Control Assistance
Subtitle L—Study on the Use of Existing
Federal Buildings as Prisons
Subtitle M—Narcotics Traffickers
Deportation Act
Subtitle N—Freedom of Information Act
Subtitle O—Prohibition on the Interstate
Sale and Transportation of Drug Paraphernalia
Subtitle P—Manufacturing Operations
Subtitle Q—Controlled Substances Technical
Amendments
Subtitle A—Precursor and essential
chemical review
Subtitle S—White House Conference for A
Drug Free America
Subtitle T—Common carrier operation
under the influence of alcohol or drugs
Subtitle U—Federal Drug Law Enforcement
Agent Protection Act of 1988
TITLE II—INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL
TITLE III—INTERDICTION
Subtitle A—Department of Defense Drug
Interdiction Assistance
Subtitle £—Customs Enforcement
Subtitle C—Mariti7ne Drug Law Enforce-
- ment Prosecution Improvements Act of
1986
Subtitle D—Coast Ouard
Subtitle E— United States Bahamas Drug
Interdiction Task Force
Subtitle F—Command, Control,
Communications, and Intelligence Cenlers
Subtille O—Transportation Safety
Subtitle H—Department of Justice funds for
drug interdiction operation in Hawaii
Subtitle I—Federal Communications
Commission
TITLE IV-DEMAND REDUCTION —^
Subtitle A—Treatment and rehabilitation j
Subtitle B—Drug-Free Schools and J
Communities Act of 1988
Subtitle C—Indians and Alaska Natives
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous Provisions
TITLE V-UNITED STATES INSULAR
AREAS AND NATIONAL PARKS
Subtitle A—Programs in United States
Insular Areas.
Subtitle B—National Park Service Program.
TITLE VI-FEDSRAL EMPLOYEE SUBSTANCE
ABUSE EDUCATION AND
TREATMENT
TITLE Vll-NATIONAL ANTIDRUG REORGANIZATION
AND COORDINATION
TITLE VIII—PRESIDENTS MEDIA COMMISSION
ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG
ABUSE PREVENTION
TITLE IX—DENIAL OF TRADE BENEFITS
TO UNCOOPERATIVE MAJOR DRUG
PRODUCING OR DRUG-TRANSIT
COUNTRIES
TITLE X—BALLISTIC KNIFE
PROHIBITION
TITLE XI—HOMELESS ELIGIBILITY
CLARIFICATION ACT
Subtitle A—Emergency Food for the
Homeless
5u6(iiie B—Job Training for the Homeless
Subtitle C—Entitlements Eligibility
TITLE XII-COMMERCIAL MOTOR
VEHICLE SAFETY ACT OF 1988
TITLE XIII—CYANIDE WRONGFUL USE
SBC. * CnVPIJANCB WITHBl'DGBT ACT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act any spending authority and any
credit authority provided under this Act
shall be effective for any fiscal year only to
such extent or in such amounts as are provided
in appropriation Acts. For purposes of
ihis Act. the term "spending authority" has
the meaning provided in section 401IC/I2I of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and
the term "credit authority" has the meaning
provided in section 3110) of the Congresssional
Budget Act of 1974.
• This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., • 1407 is 2:07 p.m.
Matter sec in this typeiace indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.
H11219
H11220 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
Tm.E l-ANTI-DRVG KNFORCHmilNT
Subtille A—\arcotir$ PenaltUa and Enfamment Actor me
sac. mi. HUORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Narcotics
Penalties and Enforcement Act of I9S6". SEC. mi. COftmOLLED .WS.ST.-l.Vfi'S ACT PESALTies.
Section iOUbKl) of the Controlled Substances
Act HI V.S.C. 84Ilbill)l is amended—
H) by redesignating subparagraph ICI as
subparagraph ID): and
HI by striking out subparagraphs lAI and
(Bl and inserting the following in lieu thereof:
"flUAl In the case of a violation of subsection
la) of this section involving—
"li) I kilogram or more of a miliars or
substance containing a delectable amount
of heroin:
"/HI S kitograms or more of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
vf—
"III coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts
of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine,
and derivatives o/ecgonine or their
soJis /iai>c been removed;
"illl cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric
isomers, and salts of isomers;
"inil ecgonine. its derivatives, their salts,
isomers, and salts of isomers; or
"IIVI any compound, miriure. or preparation
which contains any quantity of any of
the substance referred to in subclauses 111
through Hill;";
"liiil SO grams or wore of o mixture or
substance described in clause liil which contains
cocaine base:
"livl 100 grams or more of phencyclidine
IPCPl or I kilogram or more of o wiiiure or
substance containing a detectable amount
of phencyclidine IPCPI:
"ivl 10 grams or more of a mixture or substance
conlaining a detectable amount of lysergic
acid diethylamide ILSDl;
"Ivil 400 grams or more of a mixture or
substance conlaining a detectable, amount
of N-phenyl-N-/l-H.phenylclhyll-4-plpertdinyt/
propanamide or 100 grams or more of
a mixture or substance containing a delectable
amount of any analogue of N-phenyl-N-
/2-l2-phcnylethyU-4-pipertdinylJ propanamide;
or
"iviii 1000 kilograms or more of a mixture
or substance containing a detectable
amount of marihuana;
such person shall be sentenced Co a term of
imprisonment which may nol be less than 10
yeais or wore than life and if death or serious
bodily injury results from the use of
such substance shall be not less than 20
years or more than life, a fine not to exceed
the greater of that authorised in accordance
with the provisions of tiffe 18. United Stales
Code, or 84,000.000 if the defendant ts an individual
or 810.000.000 if the defendant is
other than an individual, or both. If any
person commits such a i>io7a/ton after one
or more prior convictions for on offense
punishable under this paragraph, or for a
felony under any other provision of this title
or title 111 or other law of a Slate, Che
United States, or a foreign country relating
to narcotic drugs, marihuana, or depressant
or stimulant substances, have become final,
such person shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment which may not be less than 20
years and not more than life imprisonment
and if death or serious bodily injury results
fiom Che use of such substance shall be sentenced
Co life imprisonment, a fine not to
exceed the greater of twice that authorised
in accordance with the provisions of title IS,
United States Code, or 88.000.000 if the delendanl
is an indwidual or 820,000.000 if
the defendant is other than on individual,
or botlu Any sentence under this subparagraph
shall, in Ihe absence of such a prior
conviction, impose a term of supervised release
of at least 5 years in oddition to such
term of imprisonment and shall, if there was
such a prior coniiction, impose a term of
supervised release of at least 10 years in addition
to such term of imprisonment. Notwithstanding
any other provision of law.
Che court shall not place on probation or
suspend the sentence of any person sentenced
under this subparagraph. No person
sentenced under this subporaprapA shall be
eligible for parole during the term of imprisonment
imposed therein.
"IBI In the case of a violation of subsection
lal of this section iJiuoZpins—
"HI 100 prows or more of a mixture or substance
containing a del^table amount of
heroin:
"liil SOC prams or more of a mixture or
substance containing a delectable amount
of—
"III coco teoi'es, except coca teones and extracts
of coca leaves from leAicA cocaine, ecgonine,
and derivatives of ecgonine or their
salts have been removed:
"llll cocaine, its salts, optical and peometric
isomers, and satts of isomers;
"HIU ecgonine. its derivatives, their salts,
isomers, and salts of isomers: or
"IIVI any compound, mixture, or preparation
which contains any quantity of any of
tAe substance referred to in subclauses III
through Hill;";
"liiil 5 grams or more of a mixture or substance
descn'bed in clause liil which contains
cocaine base;
"livl 10 grams or more of phencyclidine
IPCPI or 100 grams or more of a mixture or
substance contoininp o detectable amount
of phencyclidine IPCPI:
"Ivl I gram or more of a mixture or substance
containing a delectable amount of lysergic
acid difltAptomide ILSDl;
"Ivil 40 grams or more of a mixture or
subsfonce contofninp a detectable amount
of N-phenyl-N-ll-l2-phenyleth.yll-4-piperidinylj
propanamide or 10 grams or more of
a mixture or substance containing a delectable
amount of any analogue of N-phenyl-Nll-(
2-phenylethyli-4-piperidinylj propanamide;
or
"Iviil 100 kilograms or more of a mixture
or substance containing a detectable
amount of marihuana;
such person shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment which may nol be less than 5
years and not more than 40 years and if
death or serious bodily injury results from
the use of such substance shall be nol less
than 20 years or more than life, a fine not to
exceed the greater of that authorised in accordance
with the provisions of title 18.
United States Code, or 82.000.000 if the defendant
is on indiuiduo/ or 85.000.000 if the
defendant is other than an individual, or
both. If any person commits such a violation
after one or more prior convictions for
an offense punishable under this paragraph,
or for a felony under any other provision of
tAis title or title HI or otAer law of a State,
the United States, or o foreign country relating
to narcotic drugs, marihuana, or depressant
or stimulant substances, have become
final, such person shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment which may not be less
than 10 years and not more tAon life imprisonment
and if deotA or serious bodily injury
results from the use of such substance shall
be sentenced to life imprisonment, a fine not
to exceed Ihe greater of twice that authorised
in accordance with the provisions of
title IS, United States Code, or 84.000.000 if
the defendant is on individual or
810.000.000 if the defendant is otAer tAun an
indii'iduat. or both. Any sentence imposed
under this subparagraph shall, in the absence
of such a prior conviction, include a
term of supervised release of at least 4 years
in addition to such term of imprisonment
ond shall, if there was such a prior conviction,
include a term of supervised release of
at least 8 years in addiCion to such term of
imprisonment NoLwilhslanding any other
provision of law. the court shall nol place
on probation or suspend the sentence of any
person sentenced under this subparagrapli
No person sentenced under this subparagraph
shall be eligible for parote durinp the
term of imprisonment imposed therein.
"(CI In the case of a controZied substance
in schedule I or 11 except as provided in subparagraphs
lAl. IBI, and tDi. such person
shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
of not more than 20 years and if death
qr serious bodily injury results from ike use
0/ such substance sAoii be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less than
tkienty years or more tAan life, a fine not to
Exceed the preater of thai authorized in acdordance
with the provisions of title 18.
United States Code, or 81.000.000 if the defendant
is an individual or 85.000.000 if the
defendant is other than an individual, or
both. If any person commits such a violation
after one or more prior convictions for
on offense punishable under this paragraph,
or for a felony under any other provision of
this title or title III or otAer law of o Stale,
the United Stales or a foreign country relating
to narcotic drugs, marihuana, or depressant
or stimulant substances, have become
final, such person shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of nol more tAon 30
years and if death or serious bodily injury
results from the use of such substance shall
be sentenced to life imprisonment, a fine not
to exceed the greater of twice that authorized
in accordance with the provisions of
titU 18. United Stotes Code, or 82.000,000 if
Ihe defendant is an individual or
810.000,000 if the defendant is other than an
individual, or both. Any sentence imposing
a term of imprisonment under this paragraph
shall, in the absence of sucA o prior
conviction, impose a term of supewised release
of at least 3 years in addition to such
term of imprisonment and shall, if there was
such a prior conviction, impose a term of
supervised release of at least 6 years in addition
to such term of imprisonment Notwithstanding
any other provision of Zoic, tAe
court shall not place on probation or suspend
the sentence of any person sentenced
under the provisions of this subparagraph
which provide for a mandatory term of imprisonment
if deotA or serious bodily injury
results, nor shall a person so sentenced be eligible
for parole durinp tAe term of such a
sentence.
A'KC. IMS. OTHER AHENDIHENTS TO THE C0\.
TROLLED StflSr4iVr£.S- ,40:
lal Section 401 of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 8411 is further amended
as follows:
I I I I n s u b s e c t i o n I b l , poraprapA IlllDI, as
redesignated, is amended by—
lAi striking out "a fine of not more than
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 11221
tSO.OOO" and inserting in lieu ther^ "a fine
not to exceed the greater of that tnOiorized
In accordance luifh the prootsioni entitle IS,
United States Code, or S2S0,0g0 if the defendant
is an individual or Sl.000,000 if the
defendant is other Jftan an individual":
IB) striking out "o fine of not more than
flOO.OOO" and inserting in lieu thereof "a
fine not to exceed the greater of ticice tAat
authorised in accordance icitA the provisions
of title IS. United States Code, or
SS00,000 if the defendant is an individual or
$2,000,000 if the defendant is other than an
individual": and
(C) inserting "arcept in the case of 100 or
more marihuana plants regardless of
weight," after "marihuana," the first place
it appears,
12) In subsection lb), peroffrapft 12) is
amended by striking out "a fine of not more
than $25,000" and inserting in lieu thereof
"a fine not to exceed the greater of that authorised
in accordance with the provisions
of title IS, United States Code, or $250,000 if
the defendant is an individual or $1,000,000
if the defendant is other than an individual",
and bp striking out "a fine of not more
Bum $50,000" and inserting in iieu thereof
"a fine not to exceed the greater of twice
that authorised in accordance with the provisions
of title IS. United States Code, or
$500,000 if the defendant is an individual or
$2,000,000 if Che defendant is oilier than an
individual".
13) In subsection lb), paragraph 13) is
amended by striking out "a fine of not more
than $10,000" and inserting in lieu thereof
"a fine not to exceed the greater of that authorised
in accordance with the provisions
of title 18. United States Code, or $100,000 if
the defendant is an individual or $250,000 if
the defendant is other than an individual",
and by striking out "a fine of not more t/ion
$20,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "a fine
not to exceed the greater of ticice that oathorised
in accordance with the provisions
of title 18, United Stales Code, or $200,000 if
the defendant is an individual or $500,000 if
the defendant is other than an individual".
14) In subsection lb), paragraj^ 14) is
amended by striking out "HO" ond inserting
"IID)" in lieu thereof.
15) In subsection lb), paragraph IS) is
amended to read as follows:
"IS) Any person who uiotates subsection
la) of Uiis section by cultivating a eontrolled
substance on Federal property shall
be imprisoned as provided in this subsection
and shall be fined any amount not to
exceed—
"lA) the amount authorized in accordance
with this section:
"IB) the amount authorized in accordance
with the provisions of title IS, United States
Code;
"lO $500,000 if the de^ndant is an individual;
or
"ID) $1,000,000 if the defendant is other
than an individual;
or both.
IS) Subsection Id) is amended by striking
out "a fine of not more than $15,000" and
inserting in lieu thereof "a fine not to
exceed the greater of that authorized in accordance
with the provisions of title 18.
United Stales Code, or $250,000 if the defendant
is on individual or $1,000,000 if the
defendant is other than on individual".
lb) Section 102 of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 802) is amended—
II) by inserting the following new paragraph
after paragraph 124):
"125) The term 'serious bodily injury'
means bodily injury which involves—
"(A) a substantial risk of deaOi;
"IB) protracted and obvious disfigurement:
or
"to protracted ioss or impairment of the
function of a bodily member, organ, or
mental faculty.": and
12) by renumbering the following paragraphs
accordingly.
.VIC. ies4. ELIH.V.ITIOh OFSPkCML P.iROLE TEILIlii
la) The Controlled Substances Act and the
Controlled Substances Import and Export
Act are amended by striking out "special
parole term" each space it oppcars and inserting
"term of supervised release" in lieu
thereof.
lb) The amendments made by this section
shall take effect on the date of the taking
effect of section 3583 of title 18, United
States Code.
SEC- IMS. AHENIrmST 7V THE COMPREHF.SStyE
CRIHE COSTROL ACT OP I3H4.
la) Subsection la) of section 224 of the
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 is
amended—
11) by inserting "and" after the semicolon
in paragraph 14); and
12) by striking out paragraphs H), 12), 13).
and IS) and redesignating the other paragraphs
accordingly.
<b) Section 224 of the Comprehensive
Crime Control Act of 1984 is amended—
ID by striking out sttSseetion lb): and
12) by redesignating subsection Ic) as subsection
lb).
icJ Section 225 of the Conipreftenstve
Crime Control Act of 1984 is amended to
read as follows:
"SEC. 225. Section 1515 of the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act <21
U.S.C. 9S0) is amended by repealing subsection
(c).
SEC. im. mSCEllAEEOVS TECMMCAL AI4BSDMEhTS.
la)tlJ Subsection la) of section 3583 of
title 18, United Slates Code, is amended by
inserting ". except that the court shall inciude
as a part of the sentence a reguirement
that the defendant be placed on a term of supervised
release if such a term is required by
statute." after "imprisonment" the second
place it appears.
12) Subsection lb) of section 3583 of title
18, United States Code, is amended try striking
out "The" and inserting in lieu tftereat
"Except as otherwise provided, the".
13) Subsection let of section 3583 of title
18, United States Code, is amended—
(A) so that the catchline reads as follows:
"Modification of conditions or revocation.
IB) in paroprapA 12) by striking out "or"
after the semicolon;
IC) in paragraph 13) by striking out
"title." and inserting "title: or" in lieu thereof'
and
ID) by inserting the following new paragraph
after paragraph (3):
"14) revoke a term of swpervised release,
and reguire the person to serve in prison all
or part of the term of supervised release
without credit for time previously served on
postrelease supervision, if it finds by a preponderance
of the evidence that the person
pioiated a condition of supervised release,
pursuant to the provisions of the Federot
Rules of Criminal Procedure that are applicable
to probation reoocafion and to the
provisions of applicable policy statements
issued by the Sentencing Commission.
14) The amendments made by this subsection
shall take effect on the date of the
taking effect of section 3583 of title 18,
United States Code.
lb) Paragraph 13) of section 9941a) of title
28. United States Code, is amended by inserling
"and revocation of supervised release"
after "supervised release".
Ic) Section 511 of title II of the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1978
121 U.S. C- 881) is amended—
ID in subsection If) by inserting "or U"
after "I" each place it appears:
(2) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection
Iftlt); and
13) by inserting the following new paragraph
after subsection lf)il) as so redesignated:
"<2) The Attorney General may direct the
destruction of all controlled substances in
schedule I or II seized for violation of this
title under such circumstances os the Attorney
General may deem necessary.
SEC. Htff). AMEEDklEST TO TITLE tS OF THE I.VITED
STATE.'I CODE.
la) Section 3553 of title IS. United States
Code, is amended by adding the following at
the end thereof:
"le) LIMITED AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE A SSHTESCE
BELOW A STATUTORY MMIMUM.—Upon
motion of the Government, the court shall
have the authority to impose a sentence
below a level established by statute as minimum
sentence so as to reflect a defendant's
substantial assistance in the investigation
or prosecution of another person who has
com-milied an offense. Such sentence shall be
imposed in accordance with the guidelines
and policy statements issued by the Sentencing
Commission pursuant to section 994 of
title 28, United States Code.".
lb) The amendment made by this section
shall take effect on the date of the taking
effect of section 3553 of title 18. United
States Code.
SEC. I«0E AMEEDMENT TO TITLE 18 OF THE tEtTEO
STATES CODE.
Section 994 of title 28 of the United States
Code is amended by—
ID inserting the following after subsection
Iml:
"In) The Commission shall assure that the
guidelines reflect the general appropriateness
of imposing a lower sentence than
would olherwise be imposed, inciudins' o
sentence that is lower than that estoAiisAed
by statute as minimum sentence, to take
into account a defendant's substantial assistance
in iAe investigation or prosecution
of anoVter person who has committed an offense.
and
12) redesignating subsections In), to), (p),
Ig), Ir), Is), It), luJ, Iv), and Iw) as suAsections
to), Ipl, Ig), Ir), Is), It), <u), Iv), Iw),
and <i), respectively.
.SEC lees. A.QE,\OME.\'T TO THE FEDERAL RI LES OF
CRIMI.SAL PROCEDURE
la) Rule 351b} of the Federal fiuies of
Criminal Procedure is amended by striking
out "Co Che extent" and all that follows
through the end and inserting in lieu thereof
the following: "in accordance with the
guidelines and policy statements issued by
the Sentencing Commission purs'uant to seclion
994 of lille 28. United Stales Code. The
court's authority to iouier o sentence under
this subdivision includes the authority to
lower such sentence to a level below that established
by statute as a minimum sentence.
lb) The amendment made by this section
shall take effect on the date of the taking
effect of rule 35ib) of the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure, as amended by section
II11222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
215>bJ of the Comprehensive Crime Control
Act 0/IS84.
Subtille It—Drug Possession Penally Act of 1986
SKC. mi. SHORT TITLK.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Drug
Possession Penalty Act ofl9S6".
SRC. mi. PKSA LTY FOR SI.HPLR POSSFSSIOS.
Section 404 of the Controlled Substances
^cf 121 U.S.C. 844) is amended to read as follows:
"PENALTY FOR SIHPLS POS.SESS/ON
"SEC. 404. fa) It shall be unlawful for anj*
person knowingly or intentionally to possess
a controlled substance unless such, substance
was obtained direettjr, or pursuant to a
valid prescription or order, from a practitiouer,
while acting in the course of his professional
practice, or except as otherwise authorised
by this title or title III. Any person
who violates this subsection may be sentenced
to a term of imprisonment of not
more than I year, and shall be fined a minimum
of SI.OOO but not more than $5,000, or
both, except that if he commits such offense
after a prior conviction under this title or
title III, or a prior conviction far any drug
or narcotic offense chargeable under the law
of any State, has become final, he shall be
sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not
less than 1$ days but not more than 2 years,
and shall be fined a minimum of $2,500 but
not more than $10,000. except, further, thai
if he commits such offense after two or more
prior convictions under this title or title III,
or two or more prior convictions for any
drug or narcotic offense chargeable under
the law of any Slate, or a combination of
two or more such offenses have become final,
he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
for not less than 90 days but not more
than 3 years, and shall be fined a minimum
of $5,000 but not more than $25,000. The imposition
or execution of a minimum sentence
required to be imposed under this subsection
shall not be suspended or deferred.
Further, upon conutction. a person who violates
this subsection shall be fined the reasonable
costs of the investigation and prosecution
of the offense, including the costs of
prosecution of an offense as defined in sections
1918 and 1920 of title 28. United Stales
Code, except that this sentence shall not
apply and a fine under this section need not
be imposed if the court determines under the
provision of tiUe 18 that the defendant lacks
the ability to pay.
"(b/H) If any person who has not previously
been convicted of violating subsection
<a> of this section, any other provision of
this subchapter or subchapter II of this
chapter, or any other law of the United
Slates relating to narcotic drugs, marihuana,
or depressant or stimulant substances, is
found guilty of a violation of subsection 'a/
of this section after trial or upon a plea of
guilty, the court may. without entering a
judgment of guilty and with the consent of
suc/i person, defer further proceedings and
place him on probation upon such reasonable
conditions as it may require and for
such period, not to exceed one year, as the
court, may prescribe. Upon violatiori of a
condition of the probation, the court may
enter an adjudication of guilt and proceed
OS otherwise provided. The court may. in its
discretion, dismiss the proceedings against
such person and discharge him from probation
before the expiration of the maximum
period prescritied for such person's probation.
If duririg the period of his probation
such person does not violate any of the conditions
of the probation, then upon expiralion
of such period the court shall discharge
such person and dismiss the proceedings
against him. Discharge and dismissal under
this subsection shall be without court adjudication
of guilt, but a nonpublic record
thereof shall be re^a!7^ed bv the Department
of Justice solely for the purpose of use by the
courts in determining whether or not, in
subsequent proceedings, such person qualifies
under this subsection. Such discharge or
dismissal shall not be deemed a conviction
for purposes of disqualifications or disabilities
imposed by law upon conviction of a
crime lincluding the penalties prescribed
under this part for second or subsequent
convictions) or for any other purpose. Discharge
and dismissal under this section may
occur only once with respect to any person.
"12) Upon the discharge of such person
and dismissal of the proceedings against
him under paragraph (1) of this subsection,
such person, if he was not over twenty-one
years of age at the time of the offense, may
apply to the court for an order to expunge
from all official records lother than the nonpublic
records to be retained by the Department
of Justice under paragraph ID) all recordation
relating to his arrest, indictment
or information, trial, finding of guilty, and
dismissal and discharge pursuant to this
section. If the court determines, after hearing,
that such person was dismissed and the
proceedings against him discharged and
thai he icas not oi'er twenty-one years of age
at the time of the offense, it shall enter such
order. The effect of sucJi order shall be to restore
such person, in the contemplation of
the law, to the status he occupied before
such arrest or indictment or information
No person as to whom such order has been
entered shall be held thereafter under any
provision of any law to be guilty of perjury
or otherwise giving a false statement by
reason of his failures to recite or acknowledge
such orrest, or indictment or information,
or trial in response to any inquiry
made of him for any purpose.
"icJ As used in this section, the term 'drug
or narcotic offense' means any offense
which proscribes the possession, distribution,
manufacture, cultivation, sale, transfer.
or the attempt or conspiracy to possess,
distribute, manufacture, cultivate, sell or
transfer any substance the possession of
which is prohibited under this title.",
Subtille C—Jaienilc Drug Traffieblng Ado/1986
SRC. nOL .SHORT TITLE.
This subtille may be cited as the "Juvenile
Drug Trafficking Act of 1986".
SRC. /Its. OFFRSSR.
Part D of the Controlled Substances Act is
amended by adding after section 405A a new
section as follows:
"gMFLOYMENT OR VSE OF PERSONS UNDER IS
YEARS OF AGE IN DRVC OPERATIONS
"SEC. 40SB. (a) It shall be unlawful for any
person at least eighteen years of age to
knowingly and intentionally—
"ID employ, hire, use, persuade, induce,
entice, or coerce, a person under eighteen
years of age to Dictate any provision of this
title or title III; or
"121 employ, hire, use, persuade. Induce,
entice, or coerce, a person under eighteen
years of ajre to assist in avoiding detection
or apprehension for any offense of this title
or title HI by any Federal. Stale, or local
law enforcement official.
"lb) Any person who violates subsection
la) is punishable by a term of imprisonment
up to twice that otherwise authorised, or up
to twice the fine otherwise authorized, or
both, and at least twice any term of super-
Dised release otherwise authorized for a first
offense. Except to the extent a greater minimum
sentence is ofhenctse provided, a term
of imprisonment under this subsection shall
not be less than one year.
"ic) Any person who violates subsection
la) after a prior conviction or convictions
October 17, 1986
under subsection la) of this section have
become final, is punishable by a term of imprisonment
up to three limes that otherwise
authorized, or up to three times the fine otherwise
authorized, or both, and of least three
times any term of superuised release otherwise
authorized for a first offense. Sicept to
the extent a greater minimum sentence is
otherwise provided, a term of imprisonment
under this subsection shall not be less than
one year.
"Id) Any person who violates section
40SBIal ID or 12)
"ID by knowingly providing or distributing
a controlled substance or o controlled
substance analogue to any person under
eighteen years of age; or
"12) if the person employed, hired, or used
is fourteen years of age or younger,
shall be subject to a term of imprisonment
for not more than five years or a fine of not
more than $50,000, or both, in addition to
any other punishment authorized by this
section.
"le) In any case of any sentence imposed
under this section, imposition or execution
of such sentence shall not be suspended and
probation shall not be granted. An individual
convicted under this section of an offense
for which a mandatory minimum term
of imprisonment is applicable shall not be
eligible for parole under section 4202 of title
18. United States Code, untit the individual
has served the mandatory term 0/imprisonment
required by section 4011b) as enhanced
by this section,
"IfJ Except as authorized by this title, it
shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly
or intentionally provide or distribute
any controlled substance to a pregnant individual
in violation of any provision of this
title. Any person who uiotcfes this subsection
shall be subject to the provisions of subsections
lb), (c). and le).
SEC. I IB}. TKCHSICAL AMESDMRNTS.
la) Section 40lib) of the Controlled Substances
Act <21 U.S.C. 8411b)) is amended by
striking out "or 4gSA" and inserting in lieu
thereof ", 40SA. or 405B
fb; Section 4011c) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U-S.C. 8411c)) is amended by
striking out "40SA" each place it appears
and inserting in lieu thereof 405A, or
405B".
SEC. Iim. .HAM'FACTt'RINC A CONTROURD SVRSTANCE
irm/t.v I.M FF.F.T OF A VOLLRHE.
la) Section 405A of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 84Sa) is amended by
inserting "or manufacturing" after "distributing"
wherever it appears and by striking
out "a public or private elementary or secondary
school" wherever it appears and inserting
in lieu thereof "a public or private
elementary, vocational, or secondary school
or a public or priDote college, junior cottepe,
or university".
lb) Section iOSAla) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C 84Sala)j is amended
by striking out 'involving the same controlled
substance and schedule".
ic) Section 405Aib) of the Controlled Substance
Act <21 U.S.C. 845albl) is amended by
striking out "ID by" and all that follows
through the end and inserting the following
in lieu thereof:
"ID by the greater of <A) a term of imprisonment
of not less than three years and not
more than life imprisonment or IB) a term
of imprisonment of up to three times that
authorized by section 401<b) of this title for
a first offense, or a fine up to three times
that authorized by section 40ttb) of this title
for a first offense, or both, and 12) at least
three times any term of supervised release
October 17. '986
auOtorUea by section 40I(bJ of a&» title for
a first offense.".
SEC. IIOS. IMPRIS0K.WE,\7\
<a) Section 405faJ of the Conlmlted Substances
Act '21 U.S.C. 845taJJ is amended by
adding the foUovnng at the end thereof:
"Except to the extent a greater minimum
sentence is otherwise provided by section
401(b). a term of tmpmonmewi under this 5u&scciion shall be less than one year "
tb) Section 40S<bt of the Controlled Substances
Act '21 U.S.C. aisib)) is amended by
adding the following at Ike end thereof:
"Except to (he extent a greater minimum
sentence is otherwise provided by section
401(b). a term of imprisonment under this
subsection shall be not less than one year.
The mandatory minimum sentencing provisions
of this paragraph shall not apply to offenses
involving 5 grams or less of marihuana.
ic) Section 40SAfaJ of the Controlled Substances
Act <21 U.S.C. S4Sala)) is amended
by adding the following at the end. thereof:
'Except to the extent a greater minimum
sentence is otherwise provided by section
4011b), a term of imprisonment under this
subsection shall be not less than one year.
The mandatory minimum sentencing provisions
of this paragraph shall not apply to offenses
involving S grams or less of marihuana.".
Subtitle D—Assets Forfeiture Amendments Art of
me
SEC list. SHORT TIT/.E.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Department
of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund
A mendments Act of 19S6
SEC. list. ASSETEORFEnVRE FVNHS.
lain) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ASSETS FORFEiryiiE
FUND.—Suftseciion <c> of section 524
of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(2) by inserting at the end of subparagraph
LA) of paragraph (1) the following:
"Such payments may also include those,
made pursuant to regulations promulgated
by the Attorney General, that are necessary
and direct program-related expenses for the
purchase or lease of automatic data processmo
eguipment 'not less than 90 percent of
which use will be program related), frainino,
printing, contracting for services directly related
to the processing of and accounting for
forfeitures, and the storage, protection, and.
destruction of controlled substances;":
<3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) of
paragraph 11) the following new subparagraph
and renumbering the subsequent subparagraphs
appropriately;
"IB) the payment of awards for information
or assistance cfirectta; retotinp to violations
of the criminal drug laws of the United
States;";
14) by o'li.rnding newly tfesignoted! subparagraph
/ of paragraph H) to read as
follows:
"'F) for nipping for drug law enforcement
funclums any government-owned or
leased vessels, vehicles, and aircraft available
for official use by the Drug Enforcement
Admimslralion, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, or the United Slates Marshals
Service; and";
15) by striking out in paragraph (4) "remaining
after payment of expenses for forfeiture
and sale authorized by law" and inserting
in lieu thereoT'. except all proceeds
of forfeitures nuaitaftfe for use by the Secretary
of the Treasury or the Secretary of the
inteHor pursuant to section ll'd)) of the
Endangered Species Act lie U.S.C I540<d))
or section 6ld) of the Laccy Act Amendments
of 1981 <16 V.S.C. 3375id))"; and
<6) by striking out paragraph 18) and renumbering
paragraph (9) as porasrapti ts)
lb) CUSTOMS FoRFEtrvRE FUND.—
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
ID Section 613a of the Tariff Act of 1930
<19 U.S.C, 1613a) as added by Public Law
98-473. is amended—
<B) by amending paragraph (3) of subsection
'a) to read as follows:
"<3) for equipping for law enforcement
functions any government-owned or leased
vessels, vehicles, and aircraft available for
official use by the United States Customs
Service: and": and
to by striking out subsection <h).
<2) Section 6I3a of the Tariff Act of 1930
'19 U.S.C. 1613b) OS added by Public Ldw
98-573, is repealed.
SEC. IISX Sl BSTITtTE ASSET&
la) Section 1963 of title 18 is amended by
adding at the end thereof a new subsection,
as follows:
"In) If any of the property described in
subsection la), as a result of any act of omission
of the defendant—
"ID cannot be located upon the eiercise of
due diligence;
"12) has been transferred or sold to, or deposited
with, a third party;
"<3) has been placed beyond the jurisdiction
of the court;
"(4) has been su6st«ntiatty diminished in
value; or
"<5) has been commingled with other property
which cannot be divided without difficulty;
the court shall order the forfeiture of any
other property of the defendant up to the
value of any property described in paragraphs
Hi through <S).
lb) Section 413 of title II of the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
Act of 1975 is amended—
<1) by redesignating subsection "<p)" as
subsection "Iqi"; and
<2) by adding a new subsection tp) as follows:
"ip) If any of the property described in
subsection (a), os a result of any act or
omission of the defendant—
"ID cannot be located upon the exercise of
due diligence;
"12) has been transferred or sold to, or deposited
with, a third parly;
"<3) has been placed beyond the jurisdiction
of the court;
"14) has been substantially diminished in
value: or
"IS) has been commingled with other property
which cannot be divided without difAcully;
the court shall order the forfeiture of any
other property of the defendant up to the
value of any property described in paragraphs
ID through <5).".
Subtitle E—Contrvlled Substance Analogue
Enforcement Act of 1986
SEC. not. SHORT TITI.E
This subtitle may be cited as the "Controlled
Substance Analogue Enforcement Act
of 1986".
SEC. net TREATMEST OF COSTROLISD SUBSTANCE
ANALOUVES.
Part B of the Controlled Substances Act is
amended by adding ot the end the following
new section:
"TREATMENT OF CONTROU.ED SUBSTA-VCE
ANALOA VSS
"SEC. 203. A controlled substance analogue
all or part of which is intended for tiuman
consumption shall be freoted, for the purposes
of this title and title III as a controlled
substance in schedule I.
SEC tm. DEFI.NITIO.V.
Section 202 of the Controtted SaSstonces
Act <21 U.S.C. 802) is amended by adding at
the end thereof the following:
"<32)IA) Except as provided in subparagraph
IB), the term 'controlled saftstance
analogue' means a substance—
H11223
"IV the chemical structure of which is substantially
similar to the ctiemicat structure
of a controlled substance in schedate I or //;
"Hi) which has a stimulant, depressant, or
hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous
system that is substantially similar to or
greater than the stimvlenl, depressant, or
hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous
system of a controlled substance in schedule
J or II:
Hii) with respect to a particular person,
which such person represents or intends to
have a slimulcnt, depressant, or hallucinogenic
effect on the central nervous system
that is substantially similar to or preoter
than the stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogenic
effect on the central nervous system
of a controlled substance in schedule I or II.
"IB) Such term does not include
"(i) a controlled substance:
"Hi) any substance for which there is an
approved new drug application;
"liiU with respect to a particular person
any substance, if an exemption is in effect
for investigational use, for that person,
under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act <21 U.S.C. 355) to the extent conduct with respect to such substance
is pursuant to such exemption; or
"Hv) any substance to the extent not intended
for human consumption before such
an exemption lakes effect with respect to
that substance.".
SEC. 1291. CLERKAt, AMENDMENT.
The table of contents of the CompreJiensive
Drug ,4buse Prevention and Control Act
of 1970 is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 202 the following
new item:
"Sec. 203. Treatment of controlled substance
analogues.
Subtitle F—Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of
1986
SEC ISSI. SHORT TITI.S.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Continuing
Drug Enterprises Act of 1986".
SEC. I2SX INCREASED PENALTIES.
Section 4081a) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. S48ia)) is amended-
H) by striking out "to a fine of not more
than 1100,000," and inserting in lieu thereof
"to a fine not to exceed the greater of that
authorised in accordance with the provisions
of title 18. United States Code, or
$2,000,000 if the defendant is an individual
or $5,000,000 if the defendant is other than
an individual,"; and
12) by striking out "to a fine of not more
than $200,000," and inserting in lieu thereof
"to a fine not to exceed the greater of twice
the amount authorized in accordance with
the proj'isioas of title 18. United Slates
Code, or $4,000,000 if the defendant is an individual
or $10,000,000 if the defendant is
other than an individual,".
SEC. issa. CONTINCI.NG CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE ENHANCEIt
PE.IALTIES.
Section 408 of the Controlled Substances
Act <21 U.S.C, 848) is further amended—
H) by redesignating subsections <b) and
<c) as subsections id) and <e), respectively;
and
12) by inserting the following new subsection
after subsection (a);
"lb) Any person who engages in a continuing
criminal enterprise shall be imprisoned
for life and fined in accordance with subsection
la), if—
"ID such person is the principal administrator.
organiser, or teoder of the enterprise
or is one oj several such principal administrators,
organizers, or leaders; and
"I2)IA) the violation referred to in subsection
(dXD incoived ot least 300 limes the
H11224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17. 1986
quantity of a substance described in sub^ection
401fbJrviB/ of this Act. or
"<B> the enterprise, or any other enterprise
in which the defendant was the principal or
one of several principal administrators, orpanUers,
or leaders, received SIO miltion
dollars in gross receipts during any twelvemonffi
periotJ of its existence for the manufacture,
importation, or distribution of a
STibsfance described in section 401(b)il/'B)
of this AcL "
Subtitle G—Controlled Substance* Import and
Export Act Penalties EnbancemenI Act of ISbS
St'C. JSU. S/IVAT TJTLB.
This suiiiUe may be cited as the "Controlled
Substances Import and Export Penalties
Enhancement Act oflSSS.
.neC. tstt g,VH*NCt:D PENALTIES.
(a) Section lOldibl of the Controlled Substances
Import and Export Act 111 U.S.C.
iBOfbJt is amended—
11/ by redesignating paragraph 13/ as
paragraph 141: and
121 by striking out paragraphs 11/ and 12/
and inserting the following in lieu thereof:
"11/ In the case of a iiiotation of subsection
la/ of this section involving—
"lA/ 1 kilogram or more of a mixture or
substance containini7 a delectable amount
of heroin;
"IBI 5 leSograms or more of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
of—
"lU coca teares, except coca leaves and extracts
of coco leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine,
and derioaiives of ecgonine or their
salts have been removed;
"tUJ cocaine, its salts, opttaai and geometric
isomers, and salts or isomers;
"liii/ ecgonine. Us derivatives, their salts,
isomers, and salts of isomers; or
"tiv/ any compound, mixture, or preparation
which contains any quantity cfany of
the substances r^erred to in clauses li>
through Hiil:
" f C / SO grams o r more of a mixture or substance
described in subparagraph IB/ which
contains cocaine base;
"ID/ 100 grams or more of phencyclidine
IPCP/ or 1 kilogram or more of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
of phencyclidine IPCP/:
"IE/10 grams or more of a mixture or substance
containing a detectable amount of lysergic
acid diethylamide ILSD/;
"IF/ 400 grams or more of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
of N-phenyl-N-{l-/2-jAenyleihyt/-4-$>ipeTitUnylJ
propanamide or 100 grams or more of
a mixture or substance containing a detectoMe
amount of any analogue of N-phenyl-Nfl-
i2-phenvleihyl/-4-ptpeTidinyll propanamide:
or
"I G/ 1000 kilograms or more of a mixture
or substance containing a detectable
amount of marihuana;
the person committing such violation shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of
not less than 10 years and not more than life
and if death or serious bodily Injury results
from the use of such substance shall be sentenced
to a term of imprisonment of not less
than 20 years and not more than life, a fine
not to exceed the greater of that authorized
in accordance with the provisions o/tifZ« IE,
United Stales Code, or 34,000,000 if the defendant
is an individual or tlO.000.000 if
the defendant is oiher than an individual,
or both If any person commits suck a violation
after one or more prior convictions for
an offense punishable under this subsection,
or for a felony under any other provision of
this title or title II or other law of a State,
the United Slates, or a foreign country relating
to narcotic drufts, marihuana, or depressant
or stimulant substances, have become
final, such person shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less than 20
years and not more than life imprisonment
and if death or serious bodily injury results
from the use of such substance shall be sentenced
to life imprisonmertU a fine not to
exceed the greater of twice that authorized
in accordance with the provisions of title IS.
United Slates Code, or tS.OOO.OOO if the defendant
is an individual or S20,000,000 if
the defendant is other than an individual,
or both. Any sentence under this paragraph
shall, in the absence of such a prior conriction.
impose a special term of suspervised
release of at least 5 yeors in addition to such
term of xmprisonrrtent and shall, if there was
such o prior conviction, impose a special
term of suspervised release of ot least iO
years in addition to such term of imprisonment
Notwithstanding any other provision
Of law, the court shall not ptace on probation
or suspend the sentence of any person
sentenced under this paragraph. No person
sentenced under this paragraph shall be eligible
for parole during the term of imprisonment
imposed iherein.
"12/ la the case of a violation of subsection
la/ of this section involving—
"lAJ 100 grams or more of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
of heroin;
"IB/ 500 grams or mare of a mixture or
substance containing a detectable amount
of—
"1i/ coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts
of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine,
and derivatives of ecgonine or Oieir
salts have been removed;
"Hi/ cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric
isomers, and salts or isomers;
"liii/ ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts,
isomers, and salts of isomers; or
"liv/ any compound, mixture, or preparation
which contaiTts any quantity of any of
the substances referred la in clauses IV
through liii);
"ICJ S grams or more of a mixture or substance
d^cribed in subparagraph IB) which
contains cocaine base;
"IDJ 10 proms or moj« of phencyclidine
IPCP/ or 100 grams or more of a mixture or
substance containing a delectable amount
of phencyclidine IPCP/;
"lEJ 1 gram or more of o mixture or substance
containing a detectable amount of lysergic
acid diethylamide /LSD/;
"(F) 40 grams or more of a mixture or substance
containing a detectobte amount of Nphenyl-
N-{t-i2-pkenylethyl/-4-piperidinylj
propanamide or 10 grams or more of a mixture
or substance containing a detectobte
amount of any analogue of N-phenvl-N-fl-12-
phenylethyl/-4-piperidinyl] propanamide; or
"IG/ 100 kilograms or more of a mixture
or substance containing a detectable
amount of marihuana;
the person committing such violation shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of
not less than 5 years and not more than 40
years and if death or serious bodily injury
results from the use of such substance shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of
not less than twenty years and not more
than life, a fine not to exceed the greater of
that authorized in accordance with the provisions
of title IS, United States Code, or
12.000,000 if the defendant is an individual
or 35,000,000 if the defendant is other than
an individual, or both. If any person commits
such a violation after one or more
prior convictions for an offense punishable
under this subsection, or for a felony under
any other provision of this title or title II or
other law of a Slate, the United Slates, or a
foreign country retotinp to narcotic drugs,
marihiuma, or depressant or stimulant substances.
have become final, such person
shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
of not less than 10 years and not more
than life imprisonment and if death or serious
bodily injury results from the use of
such substance shall be sentenced to life imprisonment,
a fine not to exceed the greater
of twice that authorized in accordance with
the provisions of title IS. United Stales
Code, or 34,000.000 if the defendant is an individual
or 320.000.000 if the defendant is
other than an individual, or boti j4ny sentence
imposed under this paragraph shall,
in the absence of such a prior conviction,
include a term of suspervised release of at
least 4 years in addition to such term of imprisonment
and shall, if there was such a
prior conviction, include a term of saspervised
release of at least S years in addition
to such term of imprisonment. Notwithstanding
any otber provision of tam the
court shall not place on probation or suspend
the sentence of any person sentenced
under this paropra^ No person sentenced
under this paragraph shall be eligible for
parole during the term of imprisonment imposed
tberein.
"13/ In the case of a violation under subsection
la/ of this section involving a controlled
substance in schedule I or II, the
person committing such violation shall,
except as proiHded in paragraphs II/, 12/.
and 14). be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
of not more than 20 years and if death
or serious bodily injury results from the use
of such substance shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisOTiment of not less than
twenty years and not more than life, a fine
not to exceed the greater of that authorized
i n accordance w i t h t h e provisions o f t i t l e I S ,
United Stales Code, or 31,090,000 if the defendant
is an individual or 35,000,000 if the
defendant is other than on individual, or
both. If any person eommils such a violation
after one or more prior convictions for
on offense punishable under this subsection,
or for a felony under any other provision of
this title or title U or other law of a Stote,
the United Stales or a foreign country retotinp
to narcotic drugs, marihuana, or depressant
or stimulant substances, have become
final, such person shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not more than 30
years and if death or serious bodily injury
results from the use of such substance shall
be sentenced to life imprisonment, a fine not
to exceed the greater of tieiee that authorized
in accordance with the provisions of
title IS, United States Code, or 32,000,000 if
the defendant is an individual or
310,000,000 if the defendant is other than an
individual, or bot/L Any sentence imposing
a term of imprisonment under this paragraph
shall, in the absence of such a prior
conviction, impose a term of suspervised release
of at least 3 years in addition to such
term of imprisonment and shall, if there was
such a prior conviction, impose a term of
suspervised release of at least 6 years in addition
to such term of imprisonment. Notwithstanding
the prior sentence, and notwithstanding
any other provision of law,
the court shatt not ptace on probation or
suspend the sentence of any person sentenced
under the provisions of this paragraph
which provide for a mandatory term
of imprisonment if death or serious bodily
injury results, nor shall a person so sentenced
be eligible for parole during the term
of such a sentence.
lb) Section 1010lb/l4/ of the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act 121
D,S.C. 9eoib)l4//. as redesignated, is amended—
t l j b y s t r i k i n g o u t except a s provided i n
paragraph 14/":
12/ by striking out "fined net more than
350,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "fined
not to exceed the greater of that authorized
October 17,1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11225
in occordonoc with the provistoiis of title IS,
United States Code, or S2S0.000 V the defendant
U an individual or Sl.OOO.OOO if the
defendant is oiAer than an individual"; end
131 t)y inserting "except in the case of 100
or more marihuana plants regardless of
weight," after "marihuana,
Subtitle U—Maneii Laundering Control Act of I9SS
sue. nsi. SHORT TITLE.
This su6fti/c may be cited as the "Money
Laundering Control Act of 1988".
SIX. liSL .SEW OFFESSE FOR L.tl XPERMC OF MO.VET.
tRy i.vsTRt.uEym
'at Chapter 95 of title 18. United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following:
"S1956. lesuedering of manrtary Instruments
"la/'l/ Whoever, knowing that the property
involved in a financial transaction represents
the proceeds of same form of unlawful
activity, conducts or attempts to conduct
such a financial Ironsaction which in fact
tjit'oli'ps the proceeds of specified unlawful
activity—
"(A) with the intent to promote the carrying
on of specified unlawful activity; or
"IB) knowing thai the transaction is designed
in whole or in part—
"H) to conceal or disguise the nature, the
location, the source, the oujners/iip. or the
control of the proceeds of specified unlawful
activity; or
"liil to avoid a transaction reporting requirement
under State or Federal law.
shall be sentenced to a fine of not more Chan
3500.000 or ticice the value of the property
involved in the transaction, whichever is
greater, or imprisontTient for not more than
twenty years, or both.
"<2J Whoever transports or attempts to
transport a monetary instrument or funds
from a place in the United States to or
through a place outside the United States or
to a place in the United States from or
through a place outside the United States—
"lA) with the intent to promote the carrying
on of specified unlawful activity; or
"IBI fcnoicinp that the monetary instrument
or funds involved in the transportation
represent the proceeds of some form of
unlawful activity and knowing that such
transportation is designed in whole or in
part—
"(i) to conceal or disguise the nature, the
location, the source, the ownership, or the
control of the proceeds of specified unlawful
activity; or
"IW to avoid a transaction reporting requirement
under Stale or Federal law,
shall be sentenced to a fine of 3500,000 or
twice the value of the monetary instrument
or funds involved in the transportation,
whichever is greater, or imprisonment for
not more thon twenty years, or both.
"lb) Whoever conducts or attempts to conduct
a transaction descritwd in subsection
lalll) or Ia)l3). or a transportation descnbed
in subsection Ia)l2>, is liable to the
United Stales for a cMl penalty of not more
than the greater of—
"ID the value of the property, funds, or
monetary instruments involved in the transaction;
or
"(21 310.000.
"Id As used in this section—
"ID the term 'knowing that the property
involved in a financial transaction represents
the proceeds of some form of unlawful
activity' means that the person knew the
property involved in the transaction represented
proceeds from some form, though not
necessarily which form, of activity that constitutes
a felony under State or Federal law,
regardless of whether or not such activity is
specified in paragnph I?);
"12) the term 'conducts' inetudrs initiating,
concluding, or participating in initiating.
or concluding a transaction,'
"13) the term 'transaction' inciudes a purchase.
sale, loan, pledge, gift, traiw^cr, delivery,
or other disposition, and with respect to
a financial institution includes a deposit,
withdrawal, transfer between accounts, exchange
of currency, loan, extension of
credit, purchase or sale of any stock, bond,
certificate of deposit, or other monetary instrument.
or any other payment, transfer, or
deli-very by. Uirough, or to a financial instituiion,
by whatever means effected;
"(4) Uie term 'financial transaction'
means a transaction involving the movement
of funds by wire or other means or involving
one or more monetary instruments,
which in any way or degree affects interstale
or foreign commerce, or a transaction
involving the use of a financial institution
which is engaged in, or the activities of
which affect, interstate or foreign commerce
in any way or degree."
"(5) the term "monetary instruments'
means coin or currency of Che United Stales
or of any other country, travelers' checks,
personal checks, bank checks, money orders,
investment securities in bearer form or otherwise
in such form that title thereto passes
upon delivery, and negotiable instruments
in bearer form or oibemcise in such form
that title thereto posses upon delivery;
"16) the term 'financial institution' has
the definition given that term in section
S312ia)l2J of liUe 31. United States Code,
and the regulations promulgated t/icreunder;
"(7) the term 'specified unlawful activity'
means—
"(A) any act or activity constituting on offense
listed in section 19S1ID of this title
except an act which is indictable under the
Currency and Foreign JVunsactions Reporting
Act;
"IBJ with respect to a financial transaction
occurring in whole or in part in the
United States, an offense against a foreign
nation involving the manufacture, importation,
sale, or distribution of o controlled
substance (as such term is defined for the
purposes of the Controlled Substances Act);
"lO any act or acts constituting a continuing
criminal enterprise, as that term is
defined in section 408 of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 848); or
"ID) an offense under section 152 Irelaling
to concealment of assets: false oaths and
claims; bribery), section 215 (relating to
commissions or gifts for procuring loans),
any of sections 500 through 503 (relating to
certain counterfeiting offenses), section SIl
Irelaling to securities of States and private
entities), section 543 (relating to smuggling
goods into the United States), section 841
Irelaling to public money, property, or
records), section 656 Irelaling to theft, embeeelement,
or misapplication by bank officer
or employee), section 686 'relating to
theft or bribery concerning programs receiving
Federal funds), section 793, 794. or 798
frelaiing to espionage), section 875 Irelaling
to interstate communications), section 1201
(relating to kidnaping), section 1203 (relating
to hostage taking), section 1344 Irelaling
to bank fraud), or section 2113 or 2114 (relating
to bank and postal robbery and th^t)
of this title, section 38 of the Arms Tiport
Control Act 122 U.S.C. 2778). section 2 (relating
to criminal penalties) of the Export Administration
Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App.
2401), section 203 (relating to criminal soncitonsi
of the /n/cmational Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702), or seclion
3 (relating to crimfnot violations) of
the TVoding with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C.
App. 3).
"(d) Nothing In this section shall supersede
any provision of Federal, Slate, or other
law imposing criminal penalties or affording
civil remedies in addition to those provided
for in this section.
"(e) Violations of this section may be investigated
by such components of the Department
of Justice as the Attorney General
may direct, and by such components of the
Department of the Treasury as the Secretary
of the Treasury may direct, as appropriate.
Such authority of the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be exercised in accordance with an
agreement which shall be entered into by the
Secretary of the Treasury and the illiomey
(General.
"(f> There is extraterritorial iurisdiclion
over the conduct prohibited by this section
if-
"(D the conduct is by a United States citieen
or, in the case of a non-United States
citixen, the conduct occurs in pari in the
United States: and
"(2/ the transaction or series of related
transactions involves funds or monetary inslruments
of a valtie exceeding 310,000.
"S 1957, Engaging In monetary transactions
In property derived from specified
unlawful activity
"(a) Whoever, in any of the circumstances
set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages
or attempts to engage in a monetary
transaction in criminally derited property
of a value greater than 310.000 and is derived
from specified unlawful activity, shall
be punished as provided in subsection lb).
"(b)(D Except as provided in paragraph
12), the punishment for an offense under this
section is a fine under title 18, United Stales
Code, or imprisonment for not more than
ten years or both.
"12) The court may impose on alternate
fine to that imposable under paragraph (1)
of not more than twice the amount of the
criminally derived property involved in the
transaction.
"Id In a prosecution far an offense under
this section, the Government is not required
to prove the defendant knew that Che offense
from which the criminally derived property
was derived was specified unlawful activity.
"(d) The circumstances referred to in subsection
(a) are—
"ID that the offense under this section
takes place in the United Slates or in the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction
of the United Slates; or
"12) that the offense under this section
takes place outside the United States and
sucA special jurisdiction, but the defendant
is a United States person (as defined in section
3077 Of this title, but excluding the class
described in paragraph 121(D) of such section).
"le) Violations of this section may be investigated
by such components of the Department
of Justice OS the ilttomey General
may direct, and by sucA components of the
Department of the Treasury as the Secretary
of the Treasury may direct, as appropriate.
Such authority of the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be exercised in accordance with an
agreement which shall be entered into by the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney
General
"If) As used in this section—
"(1) the term "monetary transaction'
means the deposit, withdrawal, transfer, or
exchange, in or affecting interstate or foreign
commerce, of funds or a monetary instrument
(as defined for the purposes of subchapter
I! of cAopter 53 of title 3D by.
through, or to a financial institution las defined
in section 5312 of title 31);
"12) the term 'criminally derived property'
means any property constituting, or derfced
from, proceeds obtained from a criminal offense:
and
H11226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
"<3) the term 'specified uniaioful activity'
has the meaning given that term in section
19S6 of this title.".
tbj The table of sections at the beginning
of chapter 95 of Htle 18 is amended by
adding at the end thefoUovnng new items:
"1956. Laundering of monetary instruments".
"1857. Engaging in monetary transactions
in property derived from specified
unlawful activity".
sec /JM AIENDMENTS TO THE HICHT TO FISANClAL
PRIVACY ACT.
ta) CLARITLCATTON OF RIGHT OF FINAHCIAL INsmvTiofis
To REPORT SUSPECTED VIOLAnoNS.—
Section 11031c/ of the Right to Financial
Privacy Act of 1978 ilZ V.S.C.
StOZicD is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new sentences: "Such
information may include oniy the name or
other identifying information concerning
any individual or account involved in and
the nature of any suspected illegal activity.
Such information may be disclosed notwithstanding
any constitution, law, or regulation
of any Stale or political subdivision
thereof to the contrary. Any financial instiluUon.
or officer, employee, or agent thereof,
making a disclosure of information pursuani
to this subseciion. shall not liable to
the customer under any law or regulation of
the Untied States or any constitution, law,
or regulation of any State or political subdivision
thereof, for such disclosure or for any
failure to notify the customer of such disclosure.
".
lb) Section lllSliJ of the Right to Financial
Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3413fiJ)
is amended by inserting immediately before
the period at the end thereof a comma and
the fodowing: "except that a court shall
have authority to order a financial irxstitulion,
on which a grand jury subpoena for
customer records has been served, not to
notify the customer of the existence of the
subpoena or information that has been furnished
to the grand jury, under the circumstances
and for the period specified and pursuant
to the procedures established in section
]109 of the Right to Financial Privacy
i4cto/J97S 112 U.S.C. 34091".
SBC ISU. STRVCniUNG TRANSACTWSS TO EVADE
REPOETIEC UigVIREmESTS PROHIBITED.
taJ IN GENERAU—Subchapter IJ of chapter
S3 Of title 31. United Stales Code 'rating to
records and reports on monetary instruments
transactions) is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following neic section:
"§5324. Structuring trunsactions to evade reporting
reguirement prohibited
"No person shall for the purpose of evading
the reporting requirements of section
5313lal with respect to such transoction—
"ID cause or attempt to cause a domestic
financial institution to fail to file a report
required under section 5313ia):
"<2> cause or attempt to cause a domestic
financial institution to file o report required
under section 53131a/ that contains a
material omission or misstatement of fact;
or
"(3) structure or ossist in structuring, or
attempt to structure or assist in structuring,
any transaction with one or more domestic
financial institutions.".
lb) CLERICAI AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
for chapter S3 of title 31. United States
Code, is amended bp adding at the end
thereof the following new item;
"5324. Structuring transactions to evade reporting
requirement prohibited.".
SEC. ISSS. SEIZIIRB AND CIVIL PORFEITVRE OP MONETARY
INSTRLMENTS AND RELATED
PROVISIONS.
la) CUSTOMS AUTHORJTY TO CONDUCT
SEARCHES AT BORDER.—Section 53I7'b/ of
title 31, United States Code, is amended to
read as follows:
"<b> SEARCHES AT BORDER.—For purposes of
ensuring compliance with the requirements
of section S3IS, a customs officer may stop
and searcK at the border and without a
seoreh ujarrant, any vehicle, vessel, aircraft,
or other conveyance, any envelope or other
container, and any person entering or departing
from the United States.
lb) FAILURE TO REPORT EXPORT OR IMPORT
OF MONETARY INSTRUMENT.—The first sentence
of section 5317(c) of title 31, United
States Code (relating to seizure and forfeiture
of monetary instruments in foreign commerce)
is amended to read as follows: "If a
report required under section 5316 with respect
to any monetory instrument is not
filed (or if filed, contains a material omission
or misstatement of fact), the instrument
and any interest in property, including
a deposit in a financial institution,
traceable to sucA instrument may be seized
and forfeited to the United States Government.
".
.SEC IJSf. CVMPLfANCEALTHOBirrPORSErRETARr
OP THE TREASURY A.ND RELATED MATTERS
la) Su/HMONS POWER.—Section 5318 of title
31. United Stofes Code, is amended—
M by inserting "(a) GENERAL POWERS or
SECRETARY.—" before "The Secretary of the
Treasury":
12) in paragraph (1), by inserting "except
as provided in subsection IbJfZ/," b^re
"delegate":
13) by strifcinff out "ond" ot the end of
paragraph t2);
14) by inserting after paragraph 12) the following
neuj paragraphs:
"13/ examine any boofcs. papers, records,
or other data of domestic financial institutions
relevant to the recordkeeping or reporting
requirements of this subchapter;
"(4) summon a financial institution, an
officer or employee of o financial institution
(including a former officer or employee).
or any person having possession, custody.
or care of the reports and records required
under this subchapter, to appear
before the Secretary of the Tyeasury or his
delegate at a time and place named in the
summons and to produce such books,
papers, records, or other data, and to give
testimony, under oath, as may be relevant or
material to an investigation described in
subsection lb); and";
15) by redesignating paragraph (3J as
paragraph (51; and
(6) by adding at the end thefoUawing new
subsections:
"(b) LIM/TAR/oNs OA SUMMONS POWER.—
"111 SCOPE or POWER.—The Secretary of the
Treasury may take any action describ&i in
poraffrapA 13) or 14) of subsection ta) only
in connection with investigations for the
purpose of civil enforcement of violations of
this subchapter, section 21 of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act, section 411 of the National
Housing Act. or chapter 2 of Public
Law 91-508 112 U.S.C. 1951 et seq.) or any
regulation under any such provision.
"12) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—A summons may
be issued under subsection /a)l4) only by, or
with the approval of. the Secretary of the
Treasury or a supervisory level delegate of
the Secretary of the Treasury,
"to ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF SUMMONS.—
"ID PRODUCTION AT DESIGNATED SITE.—A
summons issued pursuant to tAis section
may require tAat books, papers, record* or
other data stored or maintained at any
place be produced at any designated location
in any State or in any territory or other
place subject to (Ae iurtsdictlon of the
United States not more than 500 miles distant
from any place where the financial institution
operates or conducts business in
the United States.
"121 FEES AND TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Persons
summoned under this section shall be paid
the same fees and mileage for travel in the
United Stales that are paid witnesses in the
courts of the United States.
"<2) No UABIUTY FOR BXPENEBS.—The
United States shall not be liable for any expense,
otAer tAan an expense described in
paragraph I2l, incurred in connection with
the production of books, papers, records, or
other data under this section.
"idJ SERVICE or SUMMONS.—Service of a
summons issued under this section may be
by registered mail or in such other manner
calculated to give actual notice as the Secretary
may prescribe by repuiation.
"lei CONTUMACY OR REFUSAL.—
"(D REFERRAL TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.—In
case of contumacy by a person issued a summons
under paragraph (3) or lit of subsection
la) or a refusal by such person to obey
such summons, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall refer the matter to the Attorney GeneroL
"12) JURISDICTION or COURT.—The Attorney
General may invoke the aid of any court of
the United States within the jurisdiction of
which—
"(A) the investigation which gave rise to
the summons is being or has been carried
on;
"(BJ the person summoned is an InAabitanU
or
"Id the person summoned carries, on business
or may be found,
to compel compliance with the summons.
"(3/ COURT ORDER.—The court may issue
an order requiring the person summoned to
appear before the Secretary or his delegate
to produce books, papers, records, and other
data, to give testimony as may be necessary
to explain how such material was compiled
and maintained, and to pay the costs of the
proceeding.
"(41 FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ORDER.—Any
failure to obey the order of the court may be
punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
"(5) SERVICE OF PROCESS.—All process in
any case under this subsection may be
served in any judicial district in which such
person may be found.".
lb) AMENDMENT RELATINO TO EXEMPTIONS
GRANTED FOR MONETARY TRANSACTION REPORTING
REOVIREMENTS.—Section 5318 of
title 31, United States Code, is amended by
adding after subsection (e) (as added by subsection
(a) of this section) the following new
subsection;
"(f) WiRtrre* AND SIGNED STATEMENT REOVFRBD.—
No person sAoiZ qualify for on exemption
under subsection (a)l5i unless the
relevant financial institution prepares and
maintains a statement which—
"ID descT-ibes in detail the reasons why
such person is qualified for sucA exemption;
and
"(2) contains the signature of such
person.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Sections 5321 and 5322 of title 31,
United States Code, are each amended by
striking out "5318(2!" eooA ptooe sucA term
appears and inserting in lieu thereof
"5318(aJ(2)".
(21 The heading of section 5311 of title 31,
United States Code, is amended to re^ as
follows:
October 17. 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11227
"SSIIS. Complianie. rsfmption*. and sammona au-
Iherily
idl CLERJCAL AMENM^sm.—The table oj sections
JOT chapter 53 of title 31. United Slates
Code, is amended by striking out the item
relating to section 5313 and inserting in tieu
thereof the following:
"5318. Compliance, exemptions, and summons
authority.
sec. I3S7.1'es.tiTY eeni i.sio.\s.
(a! CIVIL MONEY PENALTY FOR STRUOTTMSD
TRANSACTION VIOLATION.—Section 532Ua) of
title 31. United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following new
paragraph:
"141 STRUCTURED TRANSACTION VIOLATION.—
"LAI PENALTY AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary
of the Treasury may impose a civil money
penalty on any person who willfully violates
any proinsion of section 5324.
"IBJ MAXIMUM AMOUNT UMTTATJON.-The
amount of any civil money penally imposed
under subparagraph 'A) shall not exceed the
amount of the coins and currency lor such
other monetary instruments as the Secretary
may prescribe! involved in the Iransaelian
with respect to which such penalty m imposed.
"Id COORDINATION VHTH FORFEITURE PROVISION.—
The amount of any civil money penalty
imposed by the Secretary under subparagraph
lAi shall be reduced by the amount of
any forfeiture to the United States under
section 5317idJ in connection with the
transaction with respect to which such penally
is imposed.".
(bJ INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF PENALTY POR FINANCIAL
fNsrmmoNs.—Section S32l<a>nt of
title 31. United Slates Code, is amended—
11) by striking out "ilO.OOO" and inserting
in lieu thereof "the greater of the amount
Inoi to exceed tlOO.OOO! involved in the
transaction or 325.000": and
12) by striking out "section S315" each
place such term appears and inserting in
lieu thereof "sections 5314 and S315'.
ic) SEPARATE CIVIL MONEY PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
OF SECTION 5314.—Section 53211a) of
title 31. United States Code, is amended by
inserting after paragraph 14) las added by
subsection la) of this section) the following
new paragraph:
"IS) FOREIGN FINANCIAL AGENCY TRANSACTION
ViotAnoN.—
"LAI PENALTY AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary
of the Treasury may impose a ^vil money
penally on any person who willfully violates
any provision of section 5314.
"IB) MAXIMUM AMOUNT LIMITATION.—TTie
amount of any civil money penally imposed
under subparagraph lA) shall not exceed—
"H) in the case of violation of such section
involving a transaction, the greater of—
"ID the amount inot to exceed $100,000) of
the transaction: or
"111) $25,000; and
Hi) in the case of violation of such section
involving a failure to report the existence of
an account or any identifytng information
required to be protHded with respect to such
account, the greater of—
••(I) an amount mot to exceed $100,000)
equal to the balance in the account at the
time of the violation: or
"HD $25,000.".
Id) SEPARATE CIVIL MONEY PENALTY FOR
NEGLIGENT VIOLATION OF SUBCHAPTER.—Section
S321ia) of title 31. United States Code,
is amended by inserting after paragraph IS)
las added by subsection Id) of this section)
the following new parotrrapA.-
"16) NEGUOENCE.—Tke Secretary of the
Treasury may impose a civil money penalty
of not more than $500 on any financial institution
which negligently oioiates any provision
of this subchapter or any regulation
prescribed under this subchapter.".
let EXTENSION OF TIME LIMITATIONS FOR ASSESSMENT
OF CIVIL PENALTY.—Section 53211b)
of title 31. United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
"lb) TIMS LIMITATIONS FOR ASSESSMENTS AND
COMMENCEMENT OF CI VIL A CTIONS. —
"HI ASSESSMENTS.—The Secretary of the
Treasury may assess a civil penalty under
subsection la) at any time before the end of
the 6-year period beginning on the date of
ike transaction with respect to which the
penalty is assessed.
"12) CIVIL ACTIONS.—The Secretary may
commence a civil action to recover a civil
penalty assessed under subsection la) at any
time before the end of the 2-year period beginning
on the later of—
"LA) the dale the penalty was assessed: or
"IB) the date any judgment becomes final
in any criminal action under section 5322
in connection with the same transaction
with respect to which the penalty is assessed.".
If) CLARIFICATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
CIVIL PENALTY AND CRIMINAL PENALTY.—Section
5321 of title 31. United States Code, is
amended by adding at fAe end thereof the
following new subsection:
"Id) CRIMINAL PENALTY NOT EXCLUSIVE OP
CIVIL PENALTY.—A ciinl money penalty may
be imposed under subsection la) with respect
to any violation of this saftcAapter
notwithstanding the fact that a criminot
penalty is imposed with respect to the same
violation.
ig) AMENDMENTS TO CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR
CERTAIN OFFENSES.—Section 5322ib) of title
31, United Stales Code, is amended—
I J ) b y s t r i k i n g o u t " i l l e g a l a c t i v i t y i n v o l v ing
transactions of and inserting in lieu
thereof "any illegal activity involving";
12) by striking out "5 years" and inserting
in ilea thereof "10 years".
ih> CONFORMING AMEND.VENT.—Section
S32JIC) of title 31. United States Code, is
amended by striking out "section 53171b)"
and inserting in tieu thereof "suftsectlon lc>
or Id) of section 5317".
SEC. )3.tS. MOXETAIiY TKANSACTION REPORTING
AMENDMENTS.
f a ) CLOSELY RELATED EVENTS.—Section 5316
of title 31, United Slates Code, is amended
Ay oddiny at the end the following new subsection;
"Idl CUMULATION OF Ctosciy RELATED
EVENTS.—The Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe regulations under this section defining
the term 'at one time' for purposes of
subsection la). Such regulations may permit
the cumulation of closely related events in
order that such ei'ents may collectively be
considered to occur at one lime for the purposes
of subsection la).".
lb) INCHOATE OFFENSE.—Section S316ia)ll)
of title 31. United Stales Code, is amend^—
11) by striking out "or attempts to transport
or have transported,". and
12) by inserting is about to transport,"
after "transports".
ic> TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
Section S316la)l2) of title 31, United
Stales Code, is amended by striking out
"$5,000" and inserting in lieu thereof
"$10,000".
SBC. list. BANFA.VG REGILATORY AGENCY SDPERYI.
SIO.V OF RECORDXEEPING SYSTEMS
la) INSURED BANKS.—
I I ) IN OENERAL.—Section S of the federal
Deposit Insurance Act 112 U.S.C. 1818) is
amended by adding at the end thereof the
following new subsection:
"Is) COMPLIANCE WITH MONETARY TRANSACTION
RECORDKEEPING AND REPORT REQUIREMENTS.—
"ID COMPUANCB PROCEDURES REQUIRED.—
Each appropriate Federal banking agency
shall prescribe regulations requiring insured
banks to estaWisA and maintain procedures
reasonably designed to assure and monitor
the compliance of such banks with the requirements
of subchapter U of cAapter 53 of
title 31. United States Code.
"12) E.XA.VINATIONS OF BANK TO INCLUDE
REVIEW OF COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES.—
"lAi IN GENERAL.—Each examination of an
insured bank by the appropriate Federal
banking agency shall include a review of the
procedures required to be established and
maintained under paragraph ID.
"IB) EXAM REPORT REQUIREMENT.—The
report of examination shall describe any
problem with the procedures maintained by
the insured bank.
"13) ORDER to coAfpti' WITH REQUIREMENTS.—
If the appropriate Federal banking
agency determines tAat an insured bank—
"lAJ has failed to establish and maintain
the procedures described in paragropA ill;
or
"IB) Aas failed to correct any problem
with the procedures maintained by such
bank which was previously reported to the
bank by such agency,
the agency shall issue an order in the
manner prescribed in subsection lb) or Ic)
requiring such bank to cease and desist from
its violation of this subsection or regulations
prescribed under this subsection.".
12) CtVIL MONEY PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
MAINTAIN COMPUANCB PROCEDURSS.—SecHon
8ii)l2)li) of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Act 112 U.5.C. 18iaiVI2)iil) is amended by
striking out "subsection lb) or Ic)" and insetting
in lieu thereof "subsection lb). Ic). or
Is)".
lb) INSTITVTTONS REGULATED sr THE BANE
BOARD.—
11) IN GENERAL.—Section 5idJ of the Home
Owners'Loan Act oflP33 112 V.S.C. 14B4ld))
is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following nevi paragraph:
"1161 CoMPUAHCs WITH MOHETARY TRANSACTION
RECORDKEEPING AND REPORT REQUIREMENTS.—
"lAi COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REQUIRED.—
The Board shall prescribe regulations requiring
associations to establish and maintain
procedures reasonably designed to
assure and monitor the compliance of such
associations with the requirements of subchapter
II of chapter S3 Of title 31. United
States Code.
"IB) EXAMINATIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS TO INCLUDE
REVIEW OF COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES.—
" l i ) IN GENERAL.—Each examination of an
association by the Board shall include a
review of the procedures required to be established
and maintained under subparagraph
I A).
" H i ) EXAM REPORT REQUIREMENT.—The
report of examination shall describe any
problem with the procedures maintained by
tAe association.
"IC) ORDER TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS.—
If the Board determines thai an association—
"liJ has failed to estobtisA and maintain
the procedures described in subparagraph
I A); or
" H i ) h a s f a i l e d to correct any problem
witA the procedures maintained by sucA association
which was previously reported to
the association by the Board,
the Board shall issue an order in the
manner prescribed in paragraph 12) or 13)
requiring such association to cease and
desist from its violation of this paragraph
or regulations prescribed under this paragraph.".
12) CIVIL MONEY PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
MAINTAIN COMPUANCB PROCEDURES.—SeCtiOn
5ld)l8>IB)HI of the Home Owners' Loan Act
of 1933 112 U.S.C. 1464ld>l8)IB>n)) is
H11228 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
emended by $tTilcing out "paragraph 121 or
(3)" and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraph
(2>. 13), or net".
to iNSVRED THRTFT iNSTITimONS.—
M IN QENERAL.—Section 407 of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1730) is amended
by actding at the end thereof the following
new subsection:
"(s) COKPUANCE WITH MONSTAFTY TRANSACTION
RECORPKEEPINO AND REPORT REQUIREMENT,
S.—
"(II COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REQUIRED.—
The Corporation shall prescribe regulations
requiring insured institutions to establish
and maintain procedures reasonably designed
to assure and monitor the compliance
of such institutions with the requirements
of subchapter II of chapter 53 of title
31, United States Code,
"(2) EXAMlNATrONS or INSTtTUTIONS TO INCLUDE
REVIEW OF COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES,—
"(A! IN OENERAL.-Each examination of an
injured insiiiution by the Corporation shall
include a review of the procedures required
to be established and maintained under
paragraph ill.
"(BI EXAM REPORT REQUIREMENT.—The
report of examination shall describe any
problem with the procedures maintained by
the insured institution.
"(31 ORDER TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENis.—
If the Corporation determines that
an insured institution—
"(A! has failed to establish and maintain
the procedures described in paragraph (II:
or
"(BI has failed to correct any problem
with the procedures maintained by such institution
which was previously reported to
the institution by the Corporation,
the Corporation shall issue an order in the
manner prescribed in subsection felor (fj requiring
such institution to cease and desist
from its violation of this subsection or regulations
prejcrtbed under this subsection.".
(2) CIVIL MONEY PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES.—SECHON
407(kll3l(A) of the A'afionai Housing Act (12
V.S.C. I730(kl(3l(A)) is amended by striking
out "subsection (e) or (ft of this section shall
forefit" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection
(e). (f), or (s) of this section shall forfeit".
(d! INSURED CREDIT UNIONS,-
(H IN OENERAL.—Section 205 of the Eederal
Credit Union Act 112 U.S.C. I786I is amended
by adding at the end thereof the following
new subsection:
"iqi COMPLIANCE WITH MONETARY TRANSACTION
RECORDKEEPING AND REPORT REQUIREMENTS.—
"(II COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REQUIRED.
The Board shall prescribe repa/aftons requiring
insured credit unions to establish
and maintain procedures reasonably designed
to assure and monitor the compliance
of such credit unions with the requirements
of subchapter II of chapter S3 of title
31. United States Code.
"(21 EXAMINATIONS OF CREDIT UNIONS TO INCLUDE
REVIEW OF COMPLIA.VCE PROCEDURES.—
"lAi IN GENERAL.—Each examination of an
insured credit union by the Board shall include
a review of the procedures required to
be established and maintained under paragraph
(I).
"(BI EXAM REPORT REQUIREMENT—The
report of examination shall describe any
problem with the procedures maintained by
the credit union,
"(31 ORDER TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS.—
If the Board determines that an insured
credit union—
"(A) has failed io establish and maintain
the procedures described in paragraph (I)'
or
"IBI has failed to correct any problem
with the procedures maintained by such
credit union which was previously reported
to the credit union by the Board,
the Board shall issue an order in the
manner prescribed in subsection (el or (ft requiring
such credit union to cease and
desist from its violation of this subsection
or regulations prescribed under this subsection,
(2) CIVIL MONEY PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES.—SCCHON
206lkl(2)IA) of the Federal Credit Union Act
(22 U.S.C. l786(k)(2i(A/) (as in effect on September
I, 1986) is amended by stiiking out
"subsection (e) or (fl" and inserting in lieu
thereof "subsection (e). (ft, or (q>".
SBC. use CHANGE /,V B-l.V* CONTROL ACT AMENDMENTS.
(a) ADDITIONAL REVIEW TIMS,—
(U INITIAL EXTENSION AT DISCRETION OF
AGENCY.—The first sentence of section Iljllli
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12
V.S.C. 1817(jifll) is amended by striking out
"or extending up to another thirty days"
and inserting in lieu thereof "or, in the discretion
of the agency, extending for an additional
30 days".
(21 ADDITIONAL EXTENSIONS IN CASE OF INCOMPLETE
OR INACCURATE NOTICE OR TO CONTTNUE
INVESTIGATION.—The second sentence of
section HjKl) of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Act (12 U.S.C. ISntjXlH is amended to
read as follows: "The period for disapproval
under the preceding sentence may be extended
not to exceed 2 additional times for
not more than 45 days each time if—
"(A! the agency determines that any acquiring
party has not furnished all the information
required under paragraph (6):
"(BI in the agency's judgment, any material
information submitted is substantiaitp
inaccurate;
"(C) the agency has been unable to complete
the investigation of an acquiring party
under paragraph '2I(BI because of any delay
caused by. or the inadequate cooperation of,
such acquiring party: or
"(D) the agency determines that additional
time is needed to investigate and determine
that no acquiring party has a record of
failing to comply with the requirements of
subchapter It of chopter 53 of title 31.
United States Code.".
(b) DUTY TO INVESTIGATE APPLICANTS FOR
CHANGS IN CONTROL APPROVAL.—Section
7(ji(2l of the Federal Deposit Insurance Art
(12 U.S.C. I817(j)(2)) is amended—
(t) by striking out "(21" and inserting in
lieu thereof "(2I(AI NOTICE TO STATE
AGENCY.-": and
(2! by adding at the end thereof the following
new subparagraphs:
"(B) INVESTIGATION OF PRINCIPALS REQUIRED.—
Upon receiving any notice under
this subsection, the appropriate Federal
banking agency shall—
"(i) conduct an investigation of the competence.
experience, integrity, and financial
atnlity of each person named in a notice of
a proposed acquisition as a person by whom
or for whom such acquisition is to be made:
and
"(ii) make an independent determination
of the accuracy and completeness of any information
described in paragraph 16) with
respect to such person.
"(C) REPORT.—The appropriate Federal
banking agency shall prepare a written
report of any investigation under subparagraph
(B> which shall contain, at o minimum,
o summary of the results of such investigation.
The agency shall retain such
written report as a record of the agency.".
(c) PUBLIC COMMENT ON CHANGE OF CONTROL
Afor/CES.—Section 7ljll2t of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(2»
is amended by adding after subparagraph
(C) (as added by subsection (b) of this section)
the following new subparagraph:
October 17, 1986
"(D) PUBLIC COMMENT.— Upon receiving
notice of a proposed acquisition, the appropriate
Federal banking agency shall, within
a reasonable period of time—
"(U publish the name of the insured bank
proposed to be acquired and the name of
each person identified in such notice as a
person by whom or for whom such acquisition
is to be made; and
"(iil solicit public comment on such proposed
acquisition, particularly from persons
in the geographic area where the bank proposed
to be acquired is located, be/ore final
consideration of such notice by the agency,
unless the agency determines in writing that
such disclosure or solicitation would seriously
threaten the safety or soundness of
such bank.
(d) INVESTIGATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT.—Section
7(jl of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(1)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (15) and
(16) as paragraphs (16) and (17). respectively;
and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (14) the
following new paragraph:
"(15) INVESTIGATIVE AND ENFORCEMENT AVTHORiry.
—
"(A) iNVEsnoATJONs.—The appropriate
federot banfcino agency may exercise any
authority vested in such agency under section
Slni in the course of conducting any investigation
under paragraph I2IIBI or any
other investigation which the agency, in its
discretion, determines is necessary to determine
ichether any person has filed inaccurate,
incomplete, or misleading information
under this subsection or otherwise is violating,
has violated, or it about to violate any
provision of this subsection or any regulation
prescribed under this subsection.
"(BI ENFORCEMENT. —Whenever it appears
to the appropriate Federal banking agency
that any person is violating, has violated, or
is about to violate any provision of this subsection
or any regulation prescribed under
this subsection, the agency may. in its discretion,
apply to the appropriate district
court of the United States or the United
States court of any territory for—
"(i) a temporary or permanent injunction
or restraining order enjoining such person
from violating this subsection or any regulation
prescribed under this subsection; or
"(HI such other equitable relief as may be
necessary to prevent any such violation (including
divestiture).
"(C) JURISDICTION.—
"(i) The district courts of the United
States and the United Stales courts in any
territory shall have the same jurisdiction
and power in connection with any exercise
of any authority by the appropriate Federal
banking agency under subparagraph (A) as
such courts have under section Sin).
"Hi) The district courts of the United
States and the United Slates courts of any
territory shall have jurisdiction and power
to issue any injunction or restraining order
or grant any equitable relief described in
subparagraph IBI. When appropriate, any
injunction, order, or other equitable relief
granted under this paragraph shall be granted
without requiring the posting of any
bond.".
SEC ISSI. Cll.i.SGE IN SAVINGS A.\D LOA.V COXTROL
ACT A.ME.NDMENTS.
(a) ADDITIONAL REVIEW TIME.—
(1) INITIAL EXTENSION AT DISCRETION OF
AGENCY.—The first sentence of section
407iqii]) of the National Housing Act 112
V.S.C. I730iql(l!i is amended by striking
out "or extending up to another thirty days"
and inserting in lieu thereof "or, in the discretion
of the Corporation, extending for an
additional 30 days".
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE H 11229
("2; ADOmONAL EXTENSIONS IN CiEE OF INCOMPLETE
Oft INACCURATE NOTICE OR TO CONTINUE
iNvssTioATioN.—The second sentence of
section 407iq)i2j of the Na.lional Housing
Act HZ U.S.C. t730iq)ll>l is amended to read
as follows: "The period for disapproval
under the preceding sentence may be extended
not to exceed 2 additional limes for
not more than 45 days each time if—
"lAi the Corporation determines that any
acquiring party has not furnished all the information
required under paragraph (6J;
"IB/ in the Corporation's judgment, any
material in/ormalton submitted is substantially
inaccurate;
"iCJ the Corporation has been unable to
complete the investigation of an accutrinff
party under paragraph I2IIB) because of
any delay caused by. or the inadequate cooperation
Q/. such acquiring parly; or
"ID/ the Corporation determines that additional
time is needed to investigate and
determine that no acquiring party has a
record of failing to comply with the requirements
of subchapter II of chapter 53 of title
31. United States Code."
lb/ DUTY TO INVESNAATE APPUCANTS FOR
CHANGE /N CONTROL APPROVAX..—Section
407iq/iz/ of the National Housing Act <12
U.S.C. nsOiq/lZ// <« amencfcd—
n/ by striking out "12/" and inserting in
lieu thereof "12/LA/ NonvE TO STATS
AGENCY.—and
(2/ by adding at the end thereof the foUowing
new subparagraphs:
"IB/ INVESTIGATION OF PRINCIPALS REQU/
NED.—Upon receiving any notice under
this subsection, the Corporation shall—
"HI conduct an innestigation of the competence.
experience, integrity, and financial
ability of each person named in a notice of
a proposed acquisition as a person by whom
or for whom such acquisition is to be made;
and
"HV make on independent determination
of the accuracy and completeness of any information
described in paragraph ISI with
respect to such person.
"ICL REPORT.—The Corporation shall prepare
a written report of any investigation
under subparagraph IB/ which shall contain,
at a mintmum, a summary of the results
of such investigation. The Corporation
shall retain such written report as a record
of the Corporation.".
ic/ PUBLIC COMMENT ON Ch.iwgc OF CONTROL
NOTICES.—Section 407lq/f2J of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. t730lq/l2/l is
amended by adding after subparagraph ICl
las oddeif by subsection (bl of this section/
the following new subparagraph:
"ID/ PUBLIC COMMENT.—Upon receiving
notice of a proposed acquisition, the Corporation
shall wilhin a reasonable period of
time—
"HI publish the name of the insured institution
proposed to be acquired and the
name of each person identified in such
notice aa a person by whom or for whom
such arguisltion is to be made: and
"Hi/ solicit public comment on such proposed
acquisition, particularly from persons
in the geographic area where the institution
proposed to be acquired is located, before
final consideration of such notice by the
Corporation.
unless the Corporation determines in writing
that such disclosure or solicilalton
would seriously threaten the safety or
soundness of such institution.".
fdi INVESTIGATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT.—Section
40?iq) of the National Housing Act 112
U.S.C. 1730/Q/l is amended—
11/ by redesignating paragraphs 116/ and
117/ as paragraphs (17/ and IIS/, respectively:
and
(21 by inserting after poroffraph (ISI the
foUowing new paragraph:
"(16/ INVESTIGATIVE AND ENFORCBI-IENT AVTHORITY.—
"(A/ INVESTIOATIONS.—The Corporation
tnav exercise any authority vested in Che
CoDoration under paragraph (2/ or (3/ of
subsection (ml in the course of conducting
any investigation under paragraph (ZKB! or
any other Inifestisation which the Corporation.
in its discretion, determines is necessary
to determine whether any person has
filed inaccurate, incompiefe, or misleading
information under this subsection or otherwise
is violating, has violated, or is about to
violate any provision of this subsection or
ony repulafton prescribed under this subsectiOTL
"(B) ENFORCEMENT.—'Whenever it appears
to the Corporation that any person is viotating,
has violated, or is about to violate any
provision of this subsection or any regulation
prescribed under this subsection, the
agency may. in its discretion, apply to the
appropriate district court of the United
Stales or the United States court of any territory
for—
"HI a temporary or permanent injunction
or restraining order enjoining such person
from violating this subsection or any regulation
prescribed under this subsection; or
"Hi/ such other equitable relief as map be
necessary to prevent any such violation (including
divestiture/.
"(CI JURJSDll~nON.—
"(iJ The district courts of the United
States and the United States courts in any
territory shall have the same jurisdiction
and poicer in connection with any exercise
of any authority by the Corporation under
subparagraph (A! as such courts have under
paragraph I2I or (3/ of subsection (ml.
"(lil The district courts of the United
Slates and the United Stales courts of any
territory shall ftave jurisdiction and power
Lo issue any injunclion or restraining order
or grant any equitable relief described in
subsiaragraph IB/. When appropriaCe, any
injunction, order, or other equitable relief
under this paragraph shall be granted teilhout
requiring the posting of any bond
SEC. /set. AMENOUENTS TO DEFIS'ITWNH.
(a/ UNITED STATES AGENCIES INCLUDES THE
POSTAL SERVICE.—Section 5312iaJi2/iUi of
title 31, United States Code (defining financial
institutions/ (as redesignated by subsection
(a// is amended by inserting before the
semicolon at the end. the following: inctudinp
the United States Postal Service".
(bl UNITED STATES INCLUDES CERTAIN TERRITORIES
AND PossEssiONS.—Seclion S312(a/($/
of title 31, United States Code, is amended
by inserting "the Virgin Islands, Guam, the
JVortftem Mariana Islands, American
Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,"
after "Puerto Rico".
SEC. ms. INTF.RSATIONAL INtVUUATION EXCH.
l.VCE Sr.lTE.H: srVl/r OF FOREHiS
HR.ASCHES OF DOMESTIC ISSTITVTIII.
SK
(a! DISCUSSIONS ON INFERNATIONAL INFORMATION
EXCHANOE SYSTEM.—The Secretary of
the Treasury, in consultation with the
Board of Oovemors of the Federal Reserve
System, shall initiate discussions with the
central banks or other appropriate governmental
authorities of other countries and
propose that an information exchange
system be established to assist the efforts of
each parlicipaling country to eliminate the
international flow of money derived from illicit
drug operations and other criminal aclivUies.
(bl REPORT ON DISCUSSIONS REQUIRED.—
Before the end of the 9-month period beginning
on the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare
and transmit a report lo the Committee
on Banking. Finance and Urban Affairs of
the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Ajfairs
of the Senate on the results of discissions
initiated pursuant to subsection (al
(cJ STUDY OF MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH
FOBEIQN BRANCHES OF £>ov£sr/c FINANCIAL INSTMRRIONS
REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney
General and the Board of Governors of the
Federal fteseri'e System, shall conduct o
study of—
(1/ the extent to which foreign branches of
domestic institutions are used—
(A! to facilitate illicit transfers of coins,
currency, and other monetary instrurnents
las such term is defined in section
S312la/I3// of title 31, United States Code/
into and out of the United States: and
(BJ to erode reporting requirements with
respect to any transfer of coins, currency.
and other monetary instruments (as so defined/
into and out of the United States:
(2/ the eitent to which Che law of the
United States is applicable to the activities
of such foreign branches; and
13/ methods for obtoininy the cooperation
of the country in which any such foreign
branch is located for purposes of eriforcing
the law of the United States with respect to
transfers, and reports on transfers, of such
monetary instruments into and out of the
United States.
(d! REPORT ON STUD Y OF FOREION BRANCHES
RF.QVIRED.—Before the end of the 9-manth
period beginning on the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall prepare and transmit a report lo
the Committee on Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary
of the Jiouse of Representatives and
the Committee on Banfring. Housing, and
Urban Affairs and the Committee on ttie yudiciary
of the Senote on the results of the
study conducted pursuant to subsection (d.
SEC I3ti EFFEir/yK DATE.%
(al The amendment made by section 13S4
shall apply with respect to transactions for
the payment, receipt, or transfer of United
States coins or currency or otfter monetary
instruments completed after the end of the 3-
month period beginning on the date of the
enactment of this AcL
(bl The amendments made by sections
1355(b/ and l3S7(al shall apply with respect
to violations committed after the end of the
3-nionlh period beginning on the dale of the
enactment of this Act
(cl The amendnienta made by section 1357
(other than subsection (aj of such section/
shall apply with respect to violations committed
after the date of the enactment of
this Act,
(dl Any regulation prescribed under the
amendments made by section 1359 shall
apply with respect to transactions completed
after the effective dale of such regulation.
(el The regulations required to be prescribed
under the amendments made by section
13S9 shall take effect at the end of the 3-
month period beginning on the date of the
enactment of this AcL
(f! The amendments made by sections 1360
and 1381 shall apply with respect to notices
of proposed acquisitions filed after the date
of the enactment of this AcL
SEC. lies. FREniCATEOFFESSES.
(al Subsection (bl of section 1952 of title
18, United States Code, is amended by striking
out "or" before "(21", and by striking
out the period at the end thereof ond inserting
in lieu thereof the foUowing: or (3/
any act which is indictable under subchapter
II of chapter S3 of title 31, United States
Code, or under section 1956 or 1957 of this
title.".
(b/ Subsection dJ of section 1961 of tiUe
19, United Stoics Code, is amended by inH
11230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
sfr/mg "seclion I9SS (relating to the laundering
of rrionetayy inslrumentsl, section
J957 (relating to engaging in monetary
Iransaclions in property derived from specified
unlawful activity/," after "section 1955
(relating to the prohibition of illegal gambling
businesses/.
(c/ Subsection (1/ of seclion 2516 of title
13. United States Code, is amended in paragraph
(c/ by inserting "section 1956 (laundering
of monetary instruments/, section
1957 (relating to engaging in monetary
transactions in property derived from specified
unlawful activity/," after "section 1955
(prohibition of relating to business enterprises
of gambling),
SEC. isee. FORFEtTCRE.
(a/ Title 13 of the United Stales Code is
amended by adding after chapter i5 a new
chapter 46 as follows:
"CHAPTER 4S—E0RFEITCRE
"Sec.
"981. Civil Forfeiture.
"982. Criminal Forfeiture.
"SSSI. Civil/orCeitart
"(a/ri/ Except as provided in paragraph
(2). the folloicing properly is subject to forfeiture
to the United States:
"(A/ Any property, real or personal, which
represents the gross receipts a person obtains,
directly or indirectly, as o result of a
violation of section 1956 or 1957 of this title,
or which is traceable to such gross receipts.
"(B/ Any properly within the jurisdiction
of the United States, which represents the
proceeds of an offense against a foreign
nation involving the manufacture, importation,
sale, or distribution of a controlled
substance (as such term is defined for the
purposes of the Controlled Substances Act),
within whose jurisdiction such offense or
aclU'Uy would be punishable by death or imprisonment
for a term exceeding one year
and which would be punishable by imprisonment
for a term exceeding one year if
such act or activity had occurred within the
jurisdiction of the United States,
"(C/ Any coin and currency (or other monetary
instrument as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe/ or any interest in
other property, including any deposit in a
financial institution, traceaSfe to such coin
or currency involved in a transaction or attempted
transaction in violation of section
5313(a/ or 5324 of title 31 may be seised and
forfeited to the United States Government
No property or interest in properly shall be
seized or forfeited if the violation is by a tfomestic
financ^al institution examined by a
Federal bank supervisory agency or a financial
institution regulated by the Securities
and Exchange Commission or a partner, director.
officer or employee thereof."
"(2/ No properly shall be forfeited under
this section to the extent of the interest of an
owner or lienholder by reason of any act or
emission established by that owner or lienholder
to have been committed without the
knowledge of that owner or lienholder.
"(b/ Any property subject to forfeiture to
the United States under subsection (a/(l/(A/
or (a/dXB/ of this section may be seized by
the Attorney (General or, with respect to
property involved in a violation of section
1956 or 1957 of this title investigated by the
Secretary of the JVeoeury, may be seized by
the Secretary of the Treasury, and any property
subject to forfeiture under subsection
(a/(l/(C/ of this section may be seized by the
Secretary of the TYcasury, in each case upon
process issued pursuant to the Supplemental
Rules for certain Admiralty and Maritime
Claims by any district court of the United
Slates having jurisdiction over the property,
except that seizure without such process
may be made when—
"(1/ the seizure is pursuant Co a lawful
arrest or searcb; or
"(2/ the Attorney General or the Secretary
of the Treasury, as the case may be, has obtained
a warrant for such seizure pursuant
to the federot Rules of Criminal Procedure.
in which event proceedings under subsection
(d/ of Ihis section shall be instituted
promptly.
"(c/ Property taken or detained under this
section shall not be repleviabie. but shall t>e
deemed to be in the custody of the Attorney
General or the Secretary of the Treasury, as
the case may be. subject only to the oilers
and decrees of the court or the official
hax<ing jurisdiction thereof. Whenever property
is seized under this subsection, the Attorney
General or the Secretary of the Treasury.
as the case may be, may—
"(2/ place the property under seal:
"(2/ remove Che property to a place designated
by him: or
"(3/ reguire chat the General Services Administration
take custody of Che property
and remove it, if practicable, to an appropriate
location for disposition in accordance
loith law.
"(d/ For purposes of this section, the provisions
of the customs laws relating to the
seizure, summary and judicial forfeiture,
condemnation of property for yioiation of
the customs laws, the disposition of such
property or the proceeds from the sale of this
section, the remission or mitigation of such
forfeitures, and Che compromise of claims
(19 U.S.C. 1602 et seg./, insofar as they are
applicable and not inconsistent with the
provisions of this section, shall apply to seizures
and forfeitures incurred, or alleged to
have been incurred, under this section,
except that such duties as are imposed upon
the customs officer or any other person with
r€sp<xt to the seizure and forfeiture of properly
under the customs laws shall be performed
with respect to seizures and forfeitures
of property under this section by such
officers, agents, or other persons as may be
authorized or designated for thai purpose by
the Attorney General or the Secretary of the
Treasury, as the case may be.
"(el Notwithstanding any other provision
of the law. except seclion 3 of the And Drug
Abuse Act of 1936, the Attorney General or
the Secretary of the Treasury, as the case
may be, is authorized to retain property forfeited
pursuant to this section, or to transfer
suck property on such terms and conditions
as he may determine to—
"(1/ any other Federal agency: or
"(2/ any State or local law enforcement
agency which participated directly in any of
the acts which led to the seizure or forfeiture
of the properly.
The Attorney General or the Secretary of the
Treasury, as the case may be, shall ensure
the equitable transfer pursuant to paragraph
(2/ of any forfeited properly to the appropriate
Slate or local law enforcement
agency so as to reflect generally the contribution
of any such agency participating directly
in any of the acts which led to the seizure
or forfeiture of sucA property, A decision
by the Attorney General or the Secretary
of the Treasury pursuant to paragraph
(2/ shall not be subject to review. The United
States shall not be liable in any action arising
out of the use of any property tAe custody
of which was transferred pursuant to this
section to any non-Federal agency. The Attorney
General or the Secretary of the Treasury
may order the discontinuance of any
forfeiture proceedings under this section in
favor of the inslHution of forfeiture proceedings
by State or local authorities under on
appropriate Stale or local statute. After the
filing of a complaint for forfeiture under
this section, the Attorney General may seek
dismissal of the complaint in fai'or of forfeiture
proceedings under State or local law.
Whenever forfeiture proceedings are discontinued
by the United States in favor of Stale
or local proceedings, the United States may
transfer custody and possession of the seized
property to the appropriate State or local official
immediately upon the initiation of Ike
proper actions by such officials. Whenever
forfeiture proceedings are discontinued by
the United States in favor of State or local
proceedings, notice shall be sent to all
known interested parties advising them of
the discontinuance or dismissal. The United
States shall not be liable in any action arising
out of the seizure, detention, and transfer
of seized property to State or local officials.
"(f/ All right, title, and interest in property
described in subsection (a/ of this section
shall vest in the United States upon commission
of the act giving rise to forfeiture under
this section.
"(g/ The filing of an indictment or information
alleging a violation of law uiAicA is
afso related to a forfeiture proceeding under
tAis section shall, upon motion of the United
States and for good cause shown, slay the
forfeiture proceeding.
"(h) In addition to the venue provided for
in section 1395 of title 28 or any other provision
of law, in the case of property of a defendant
charged with a violation thai is the
basis for forfeiture of the property under
this section, a proceeding for forfeiture
under this section may be brought in the judicial
district in icAicA the defendant
owning such property is found or in the judicial
district in uiAicA the criminal prosecution
is broupAt.
"(ii In the case of property subject to forfeiture
under subsection (a/d/tB). the following
additional proeisforis shall, to the
extent provided by treaty, apply:
"(1) A'otu>itAstandinp ony other provision
of taio, except section 3 of the Anti Drug
Abuse Act of 1986, whenever property is civilly
or criminally forfeited under the Controlled
Substances Acl, the <4ftomey General
may, with the concurrence of the Secretary
of Slate, equitably transfer any conveyance.
currency, and any other type of personal
property which the Attorney General may
designate by regulation for equitable transfer,
or any amounts realized by the United
Stales from the sale of any real or personal
property forfeited under the Controlled Substances
Act to an appropriate foreign country
to reflect generally the contribution of
any such foreign country participating directly
or indirectly in any acts which led Co
the seizure or forfeiture of such property.
Such pTOperiy when forfeited pursuant to
subsection (a/(li(B/ of this section may also
be transferred to a foreign country pursuant
to a treaty providing for the transjer of forfeited
property to sucA foreign coxtntry. A decision
by tAe Attorney General pursuant to
this paragraph shall not be subject to
review. The foreign country shall, in the
ei'ent of a transfer of property or proceeds of
sale of property under this subchapter, bear
all expenses incurred by the United States in
the seizure, maintenance, inventory, storage,
forfeiture, and disposition of the property,
and all transfer costs. The payment of
all such expenses, and the transfer of assets
pursuant to this paragraph, shall be upon
such terms ond conditions as the Attorney
General may, in his discretion, set Transfers
may be made under this subsection
during a fiscal year to a country that is subject
to paragraph (1/tA/ of section 481(h/ of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 (relating
to restrictions on United States assistance/
only if there is o certification in effect with
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11231
re$pect to OiaL country for that fiscal year
under parayrap/t f2i of that section.
"tZJ The provisions of this section shall
not be construed as limiting or superseding
any other authority of the United States to
provide assistance to a foreign country in
obtaining property related to a crime committed
in the foreign country, including
property which is sought as evidence of a
crime committed in the foreign country.
"fjt A certified order or judgment of forfeiture
by a court of competent jurisdiction
of a foreign country concerning property
which is the subject of forfeiture under this
section and was determined by such court to
be the type of properly described in subsection
taiilJiBJ of this section, and any certified
recordings or transcripts of testimony
taken in a foreign judicial proceeding concerning
suck order or judgment of forfeilure,
shall be admissible in evidence in a proceeding
brought pursuant to this section. Such
certified order or judgment of forfeiture,
when admitted into evidence, shall constitute
probable cause thai IJie property forfeited
by such order or judgment of forfeiture is
sH6;ect to forfeiture under this section and
creates a rebutlabte presumption of the forfeitability
of such properly under this seclion.
"t4J A certified order or judgment of conviction
by a court of competent jurisdiction
of a foreign country concerning an unlawful
drug actiirity which gives rise to forfeilure
under this section and ony certified recordings
or transcripts of testimony taken in a
foreign judicial proceeding concerning such
order or judgment of conviction shall be admissible
in evidence in a proceeding brought
pursuant to this section. Such certified
order or judgment of convicliori, when admitted
into evidence, creates a rebuttable
presumption that the unlawful drug actiiHly
giving rise to forfeiture under this section
has occurred.
"fSJ The provisions of paragraphs 13) and
<4/ of this subsection shall not be construed
as limiting the admissibility of any evidence
otherwise admissible, nor shall they limit
the otii/ity of the United States to establish
probable cause that property is subject to
forfeiture by any evidence otherwise admissible.
"tjj For purposes of this section—
"(11 the term 'Attorney General' means the
Attorney General or his delegate; and
"(2) the term 'Secretary of the Treasury'
means the Secretary of the Treasury or his
delegate.
"S SB2. Criminal forfeiture
"(a! The court, in imposing sentence on a
person convicted of an offense under section
23S6 or 19S7 of this title shall order that the
person forfeit to the United States any property.
real or personal, which represents the
gross receipts the person oftfained, directty
or indirectly, as a result of such offense, or
which is traceable to such gross receipts.
"IbJ The provisions o/subsections 413 (c)
and <€) through tot of the Comprehensive
Drug i46use Prevention and Control Act of
1970 (21 U.S.C. 953 (c) and (e)-(o» shall
apply to property subject to forfeilure under
this section, to any seteure or disposition
thereof, and to any administrative or judicial
proceeding in relation thereto, if not inconsistent
with this section.".
(bJ The chapter analysis of part I of title
IS, United States Code, is amended by inserting
after the item for chapter 45 the fallowing:
"JS. Forfeiture 981".
SKC iSSr. SEIERABILITr Cl.iVSE.
If any provision of this subtitle or any
amendment made by this Act, or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances
is held invalid, the provisions of
every other part, and their application, shall
not be affected thereby.
Subtitle I—Armed Career Criminals
SEC. HOI. SHORT TITLE
This subtitle may be cited as the "Career
Criminals Amendment Act of 1989".
SEC net E.VP.l V.s/f/.V OF PREIIK A TE OFFEhSES FOR
ARMED C.iREKR CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
(a> IN GENERAL.—Section 924<eJril of title
18. United States Code, is amended by striking
out "for robbery or burglary, or both."
and inserting in lieu thereof "for a piofent
felony or a serious drug offense, or both,".
ibi DEFINITIONS.—Section 924leM2) of fitte
18. United States Code, is amended by striking
out subparagraph (A! and all that follows
through subparoffrapii (B) and inserting
in lieu thereof the following:
"lAl the term 'serious drug offense'
means—
"HI an offense under the Controlled Substances
Act (21 U.S.C. 901 et seg.l. the Controlled
Substances Import and £iport Act
(21 U.S.C. 951 et seg.l, or the first section or
section 3 of Public Law 96-350 (21 U.S.C.
9S5a et seg.l, for which a maximum term of
imprisonment of ten years or more is prescribed
by law: or
"(iU an offense under State law, involving
manufacturing, distributing, or possessing
with intent to manufacture or distribute, a
controlled substance las defined in section
102 of the Controlled Substances Act 121
U.S.C, 90211, for which a maiimum term of
imprisonment of ten years or more is prescribed
by law: and
"(Bl the term 'violent felony' means any
crime punishable by imprisonment for a
term exceediny one year that—
"HI has as an element the use, attempted
use, or ttireatened use of physical force
against the person of another; or
"Hi! is burglary, arson, or extortion involves
use of explosives, or otherwise involves
conduct that presents a serious potential
risk of physical injury to another.
Subtitle J—Auihorhation of Appropriation for
Drug Law Enfprcemeat
SEC. I4SI. ACTHUHlZATmN OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a! There is authorised to be appropriated
for fUcal year 1997 for the Department of
Justice for the Drug Enforcement Administralion
960.000,000: except, that notwithstanding
section 1345 of title 31, United
States Code, funds mode available to the Department
of Justice for the Drug Enforcement
Administration in any fiscal year may
be used for travel, transportation, and subsistence
expenses of State, county, and local
officers attending conferences, meeftnys,
and trainfny courses at the FBI Academy,
Quantico, Virginia.
(bl The Drug Enforcement Administration
of the Department of Justice is hereby authorixed
to plan, construct, renorafe. maintain,
remodel and repair buildings and purchase
equipment incident thereto for an All
Source Intelligence Center: "Provided, That
the existing El Paso Intelligence Center shall
remain in Texas.".
(cl There is authorised to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of
Justice for the Federal Prison System,
9124,500,000, of which 996,500.000 Shall be
for the construction of Federal penal ond
correctional institutions and 929,000,000
shait be for salaries and expenses.
idl There is authorised to be appropriaicd
for fiscal year 1387 for the Judiciary for Defender
Services, $19,000,000.
(el There is authorised to be appropriated
Jtr fiscal year 1987 for the Judiciary for Fees
and Expenses of Jurors and Commissioners,
97,500.000.
(fl 'There is authorised to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1987 for the Deportment of
Justice for the OJJice of Justice Assistance.
95.000,000 to carry out a pilot prison capacity
program.
(gl There is authorised to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of
Justice for support of United States prisoners
in non-Federal Institutions, 95.000,000.
(hi There is authorised to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of
Justice for the Offices of the United States
attorneys, 931,000.000.
(U There is autAoriecd to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of
Justice for the United States Marshals Service,
S17.000.000.
"Ijl Authorisations of appropriations for
fiscal year 1987 contained in this section
are in addition to those amounts agreed to
in the conference agreement reached on
Title I of H.J. Res. 738."
del In addition to any other amounts that
may be authorised to be appropriated for
fiscal year 1987, the following sums are authorised
to be appropriated to procure
secure voice radios:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
92,000.000
Secret Service 95,000.000.
(U This section may be cited as the "Drug
Bn/orcement Enhancement Act of 1986".
Subtitle K—Stale and Loral .\arcoties Control
Aasiatanee
SEC. ISSI. SHORT TITLE.
This subline may be cited as the "State
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act
of 1986".
SEC. ISii. BVREAV OF JVsflCE ASSISTANCE DREG
GRANT PROGR.IMS.
(al Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3712
et seg. I is amended—
( I I by redesignating part M as part N,
(21 by redesignating section 1301 as section
1401, and
(31 by inserting after part L the following
new part'
"PART »—CRANTS FOR DRUG LA W
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS
"FUNCTION OP THE DIRECTOR
"SEC. 1301. The Director shall provide
funds to eligible Slates and units of local
government pursuant to this part
"DESCR/FT/ON OFDRVa LAW ENFORCEMENT
ORJINT PROORAM
"SEC. 1302. The Director is authorized to
make grants to States, for the use of States
and units of local government in the States,
for the purpose of enforcing State and local
laws that establish offenses similar to offenses
established in the Controlled Substances
Act <21 U.S.C. 801 et seg.l, and to—
"III provide additional personnel, eguipment,
facilities, personnel training, and supplies
for more widespread apprehension of
persons who violate Stale and local taws relating
to the production, possession, and
transfer of controtted substances and to pay
operating expenses (including the purchase
of evidence and information! incurred as a
result of apprehending such persons;
"(21 provide additional personnel, eguipment.
faeililies (including upgraded and additional
law enforcemenl crime laboratories),
personnef training, and supplies for
more widespread prosecution of persons accused
of violaling such State and local laws
and to pay operating expenses in connection
with such prosecution;
"(31 provide additional personnel (including
judges), equipment, personnel training,
ond suppiies for more widespread adjudication
of cases involving persons accused of
violating such Stale and local laws, to pay
operatiny expenses in connection with such
adjudication, and to provide quickly tempoH11232
rary facilities in which to conduct adjudications
of such cases;
"(4) provide additional public correctional
resources for the detention of persons convicted
of violating Stale and local laws relating
to the production, possession, or
transfer of controlled substances, and to establish
and improve treatment and rehabilitative
counseling provided to drug dependent
persons convicted of violating State and
local laws;
"(5! conduct programs of eradication
aimed at destroying wild or illicit growth of
plant species from which controlled substances
may be extracted;
"fSJ provide programs which identify and
meet the needs of drug-dependent offenders;
and
"(7) conduct demonstration programs, in
conjunction with local law enforcement officials.
in areas in ui/ilcft there is a high incidence
of drug abuse and drug trafficking to
expedite the prosecution of major drug offenders
by providing additional resources,
such as investigators and prosecutors, to
identify major drug offenders ond mot'e
these offenders expeditiously through the judicial
system.
"APPUCATIONS TO HECEIVE GRAHTS
"SEC. 1303. To reguest a grant under section
1302, the chief executive officer of a
State shall submit to the Director an application
at such time and in such form as the
Director may reouire. Such application shall
include—
"Hi a statewide strategy for the enforcemen!
of State and local laws relating to the
production, possession, and transfer of controlled
substances;
"'2i a certification that Federal funds
made available under section 1302 of this
title will not be used to supplant State or
local funds, but will be used to increase the
amounts of such funds that would, in the
absence of Federal funds, be made available
for drug law enforcement activities;
"I3J a certification that funds required to
pay the non-federat portion of the cost of
each program and project for which such
grant is made shall be in addition to funds
that would otherwise be made available for
drug law enforcement by the recipients of
grant funds;
"(4) an assurance that the Stale application
described in this sectioTi, arid any
amendment to such application, has been
submitted for review to the State legislature
or designated body (for purposes ^ this
section, such application or amendment
shall be deemed to be revieived if the State
legislature or such body does not review
such application or amendment within the
Sd-day period beginning on the date such
application or amendment is so submitted/;
and
"(5/ an assurance that the Stale application
and any amendment thereto teas made
public before submission to Che Bureau and,
to the extent prottidcd under State law or established
procedure, an opportunity to comment
thereon was provided to citixens and
to neighborhood and community groups.
Such strategy shall be prepared after consultation
with State and local ofAcials whose
duty it is to enforce such laws. Such strategy
Shalt include an assurance that following
the first fiscal year covered by an application
and each fiscal year thereafl^, the applicant
shall submit to Che Director or to the
State, as the case may be. a performance
report concerning the activities carried out
pursuant to section 1302 of this title.
"REvrsw or APptrcATtoN.s
"SEC. 1304. la/ The Bureau shall provide
financial assistance to each State applicant
under section 1392 of this title to carry out
the programs or projects submitted by such
applicant upon determining that-~
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17. 1986
"11/ the application or amendment thereto
is consistent with the requirements of this
title: and
"12/ before the approval of the application
and any amendment thereto the Bureau has
made an affirmative finding in writing that
the program or project has been reviewed in
accordance with section 1303 of this title.
Each application or amendment made and
submitted for approval to the Bureau pursuant
to section 1303 shall be deemed approved,
in whole or in part, by the Bureau
not later than sixty days after first received
unless the Bureau informs the applicant of
specific reasons for disapproval.
"lb/ Grant funds awarded under section
1302 of this title shall not be used for land
acquisition or construction pro;eefs. other
than penal and correclional institutions.
"Ic/ The Bureau shall not finally disapprove
any application, or any amendment
thereto, submitted to the Director under this
section icithoat/irst affording the applicant
reasonable notice and opportunity for reconsideration.
"ALLOCATJON AND DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS
UNDER rORm/LA GRANTS
"SEC. 1305. la/ Of the total amount appropriated
for this part in any fiscal year, SO
per centum sAott be set aside for section
1302 and allocated to States as follows;
"11/ SSOO.OOO shall be aflocoted to each of
the participating States.
"12/ Of the total funds remaining after the
allocation under paragraph (1/, there shall
be allocated to each State an amount which
hears the same ratio to the amount of remaining
funds described in this paragraph
as the population of such Slate bears to the
population of all the States.
"(b/llJ Each State which receives funds
under subsection la/ in a fiscal year shall
distribute among units of local government,
or combinations of units of local government,
in such State for the purposes specified
in section 1302 of this title that portion
of such funds which bears the same ratio to
the aggregate amount of such funds as the
amount of funds expended by all units of
local government for criminal justice in the
preceding fiscal year bears to the aggregate
amount of funds expended by the State and
all units of local government in such State
far criminal justice in such preceding fiscal
year.
"(2/ Any funds not distributed to units of
local government under paragraph (1/ shatt
be available for expenditure by the State tnvolved
"13/ For purposes of determining the distribution
of funds under paragraph II), the
most accurate and complete data available
for the fiscal year involved shall be used. If
data for such fiscal year are not available,
then the most accurate and complete data
available far the most recent fiscal year preceding
such fiscal year shall be used.
"Ic/ No funds allocated to a State under
subsection la) or received by a State for distribution
under subsection lb) may be distributed
by the Director or by the State involved
for any program other than a program
contained in an approved application.
"Id/ If the Director determines, on the
basis of in/omation available to it during
any fiscal year, that a portion of the funds
allocated to a State for Oiat fiscal year will
not be required or that a Stale will be unable
to qualify or receive funds under section
1302 of this title, or that a Slate chooses not
to participate in the program established
under such section, then such portion shall
be awarded by the Director to urban, rural,
and suburban units of local government or
combinations thereof within such State
giving priority to those jurisdictions with
greatest need.
"te) Any funds allocated under subsection
la) that are not dislribuied under this section
shall be available for obligation under
section 1309 of this title.
"REPORTS
"SEC. 1306. la) Each State which receives a
grant under section 1302 of this title shall
submit to the Director, for each year in
which any part of such grant is expended by
a Slate or unit of local government, a report
which contains—
"(1/ a summary of the activities carried
out with such grant and an assessment of
the impact of such activities on meeting the
needs identified in the State strategy submitted
under section 1303 of this title;
"12/ a summary of the activities carried
out in such year wUh any grant received
under section 2309 of this title by such State;
and
"13/ such other information as the Director
may require by rule.
Such report shall be submitted in such form
and by such time as the Director may require
by rule.
"lb/ Not later than ninety days after the
end of each fiscal year far lohich grants are
made under section 1302 of this UlU. Vie Director
shall submit to the Speaker of the
House of Represeniatioes and the President
pro tempore of the Senate a report that includes
with respect to each State—
"11/ Ike aggregate amount of grants made
under sections 1302 and 1309 of this title to
such State for such fiscal year;
"12/ the ainount of such grants expended
for each of the purposes specified in section
1302; and
"13/ a summary of the information provided
in compliance with paragraphs 11/ and
12/ of subsection la/.
"EXPENDnVBE OF ORANTS: RECORDS
"SEC. 1307. la/ A grant made under section
1302 of this title may not be expended for
more than 75 per centum of Ihe cost of the
identified uses, in the aggregate, jbr which
such grant is received to carry out any purpose
specified in section 1302, except that in
the case of funds distributed to an Indian
tribe which performs law enforcement functions
las determined by the Secretary of the
Interior) for any such program or project,
the amount of such prant shall be equal to
100 per centum of such cost The non-Federal
portion of the expenditures for such uses
shall be paid in cash.
"lb/ Not more than 10 per centum of a
grant made under section 1302 of this title
may be used for costs incurred to administer
such grant
"Ic/ll/ Each State which receives a grant
under section 1302 of this title shall keep,
and shall require units of local government
which receitie any part of such grant to
keep, such records as the Director may require
by rule tofaciUtale an effective audit
"12/ The Director and the Comptroller
General of the United Stales shall have
access, for the purpose of audit and exaniination,
to any books, documents, and
records of States which receive grants, and
of units of local government tohich receice
any part of a grant made under section
1302. if in the opinion of the Director or the
Comptroller General, such books, documents,
and recortts ore retaCed to the r«;eipt
or use of any such grunt
"STATE OFFICE
"SEC. 1308. la) The chief executive of each
participating State shall designate a State
office for purposes of—
"11/ preparing on application to obtain
funds under section 1302 of this title; and
"12/ administering funds received under
such section from the Director, including receipt
review, processinp, monitoring.
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE H 11233
progress andfinancial report review, technical
assistance, grant adjvstmenla, accounting,
auditing, and fund disbursements.
"ibi An office or agencg performing other
functions within the executive t>ranch of a
Stale may be designated to carry out the
functions specified in eubseciion fa/.
"PISCFTSRIO.WARY GRANTS
"Sec. 1309, The Director is authorized to
make grants to public agencies and private
nonprofit organtzalions for any pappose
specified in section 1302 of this title. The Director
shall have final authority over all
grants awarded under this seciion.
"APPUCATION REOmnSUENTS
"SF.V. 1310. fa/ No grant may be made
under section 1309 of this title unless on application
has been submitted to the Director
in which the applicant—
"<t> sets forth o program or project which
is eligible for funding pursuant to section
1309 of this title; and
"(2) describes the services to be provided,
performance, goals, and the jnonner in
which the program is to be carried out.
"fb/ Each applicant for funds under section
1309 of this title shall certify that its
program or project meets all the reguirenwnis
of this section, that all the information
contained in the application is correct,
and that the applicant will comply with all
the provision Of this title and all other applicable
Federal laws. Such certification
shall be made in a form acceptable to the Director.
"ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR DISCRETIONARY
GRANTS
"SEC. 1311. Of the total amount appropriated
for this part in onv fiscal year, 20 per
centum shall be reserned and set aside for
section 1309 of this title in a special discretionary
fund for use by the Director in carrying
out the purposes specified in seefion
1302 of this title. Grants under section 1309
may be made for amounts up to 100 per
centum of the costs of the propranis or
projects contained in the approved appZicaiion.
"UUITATION ON USE OF DISCRETIONARY GRANT
FUNDS
"SEC. 1312. Grant funds awarded under
section 1309 of this title shall not be used for
land acguisition or construclion projects.
(bid/ Subsections (a) and lb/ of section
401 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1963 (42 U.S.C. 3741/
are each amended by striking out "part E"
and inserting in lieu thereof "paris E end
M'\
(2! Section 6011b/ of title I of the Omnibus
Crime (Control and Safe Streets Act of 1966
142 V.S.C. 2762fb/J is amended by striking
out "parts D and E" and inserting in lieu
thereof "parts D. E. and W".
(3/ Section 6021b/ of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1966
(42 U.S.C. 3?83(b/l is amended by inserting
"or M" after "part D".
(4/ Section 606 of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1966
(42 U,.S.C. 3789/ is amended by inserting "or
1306, as the case may be," after "section
408".
15/ The table of contents of title t of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1966 (42 V.S.C. 3711 et seq./ is amended
by striking out the items relating to part M
and section 1301, and inserting in tieu
thereof the following new items:
"PART M—GRANTS FOR DRUG LAW
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS
"Sec. 1301. funciion o/Wie director.
"Sec. 1302. Description of drug'law enforcement
grant program.
"Sec. 1303. Applications to receive grants.
"Sec. 1304. Review of applications.
"Sec. 1305. Allocation and distribution of
funds under formula grants.
"Sec. 1306. Reports.
"Sec. 1307. Expenditure of ijranis; records.
"Sec. 1306. State office.
"Sec. 1309. Discretionary grants,
"Sec. 1310. Application requirements.
"Sec. 1311. Allocation of funds for discretionary
grants.
"Sec. 1312. Limitation on use of discretionary
grant funds.
"PART N—TRANSITION—EFFECTIVE DATE—
REPEALER
"Sec. 1401. Continuation of rules, authorities,
and proceedings.".
Ic/ Section 1001 of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
(42 V.S.C. 3793/ is amended—
ID in subsection (at-
(A) in paragraph (3/ by striking out "and
L" and inserting in lieu thereof "L. and M",
IB/ by redesignating paragraph 16/ as
paragraph 17/. and
<C/ by inserting after parapraph tS/ the
following new paragraph:
"16/ There are authorized to be appropriated
$230,000,000 for fiscal year 1967,
$230,000,000 for fiscal year 1968, and
$230,000,000 for fiscal year 1969, to carry
out the programs under part M of this title."
. . a n d
12/ in subsection lb/ by striking out "and
iEf"" . and inserting in lieu thereof E, and
Subtitle L^Study on the Use of Existing Federal
Buildings as Prisons
SEC leoi. STLOY REQUIRED.
la/ Within 90 days of the dale of enactment
of this Act, the .Secreiarp of Defense
shall provide to the Attorney General—
n/ a list of all sites under the Jurisdiction
of the Department of Defense including facilities
beyond the excess and surplus property
inventories whose facilities or a portion
thereof could be used, or are being used, as
detention facilities for felons, especially
those who are a Federal responsibility such
OS illegal alien felons and major narcotics
traffickers;
12/ a statement of fact on how such facilities
could be used as detention facilities
with detailed descriptions on Iheir actual
daily percentage of use; their capacities or
rated capacities; the time periods they could
be utilized as detention facilities; the cost of
converting such facilities to detention facilities;
and, the cost of maintaining them as
such; and
13/ in consultation with the Attorney General,
a statement showing how the Department
of Defense and the Department c!^/asiice
toouZd administer and provide staffing
responsibilities to convert and maintain
such detention facilities.
lb/ Copies of the report and analysis required
by subsection la/ shall be provided to
the Congress.
Subtitle lU—Narcalles TrafHckers Deportation Act
SEC. I-SL. A.UE.VD.WB.\T TO TUB IMMIGRATION AND
NATWNAUrr ACT.
lal Section 212ia/i23/ of the Immigration
and Nationality Act 18 U.S.C. I182la/I23// is
amended—
11/ by striking out "any taw or regulation
relating to" and all that follows through
"addiction-sustaining opiate" and inserting
in lieu thereof "any law or regulation of a
State, the United States, or a foreign country
relating to a controlled substance las defined
in section 102 of the Controlled SubstancesAct
121 V.S.C. 802//";and
12) by striking out "any of the aforementioned
drugs" and inserting in lieu thmcf
"any such conZrofied substance".
lb/ Section 24IiaJillJ of such Act 18 U.S.C.
12Slia/lII// is amended by striking out
"any law or regulation relating to" and all
that follows through "addiction-sustaining
opiate" and inserting in lieu thereof "any
law or regulation of a State, the United
States, or a foreign country relating to a
controlled substance (as defined in section
102 of the Controlled SubsZanees Act (21
U.S.C. 602//".
fc) The amendments made by this subsections
(a/ and ib/ of this section shall apply
to convictions occurring before, on, or after
the date of the enactment of this section,
and the amendments made by subsection (a/
shall apply to aliens entering the United
States after the dale of the enactment of this
section.
(dl Section 287 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357/ is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
"(d/ In the case of an alien who is arrested
by a Federal. State, or local law enforcement
Official for a violation of any law relating lo
controlled substances, if the official (or another
official/—
"(1/ has reason to believe that the alien
may not have been lawfully odmiited io the
United States or oiAertoise is not lawfully
presenZ in the United States,
"(2/ expeditiously informs an appropriate
off icer or employee of the Service authorized
and designated by the Attorney General of
the arresZ and of facts concerning the sZaZus
of the alien, and
"(3/ requests the Service to determine
promptly wheOier or not to issue a detainer
to detain the alien, the officer or employee of
the Service shall promptly determine whether
or not to issue such a deZoiner. If such a
detainer is issued and the alien is not otherwise
detained by Federal, Stale, or local officials,
the Attorney General shall effectively
and expeditiously take custody of the
alien.
(e/iD From the sums appropriated to
carry out this Act, the Attorney General,
through the Investigative Division of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service,
shall provide a pilot program in 4 cities to
establish or improve the computer capabilities
of the local offices of the •Service and of
ZocaZ law enforcement agencies to respond to
inquiries concerning aliens who have been
arrested or convicted for, or are the subject
to criminal investigation relating lo, a utolation
of any law relating to controlled sabstances.
The Attorney General shall select
cities in a manner that provides special consideration
for cities located near the land
borders of the United States and for large
cities which have major concentrations of
aliens. Some of the sums made cvaiJabie
under the pilot program shall be used lo increase
the personnel level of the Investigative
Division.
(2) At the end of the first year of the pilot
program, the Attorney General shall provide
for an evaluation of the effectiveness of the
prosjram and shall report to Congress on
such evaluation and on whether the pilot
program should be extended or expanded.
Subtitle N—Freedom of Information Act
SEC mi. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Freedom
ofln/ormalion Reform Act of 1986".
SEC 1801. LAW ENFORCEMENT.
la) £*ejtfj'77ow,—.Section S52lb/l7J of title
5, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
"17/ records or information compiled for
Jaw enforcement purposes, but only to the
extent that the production of such law enforcement
records or information lA/ coidd
reosDTiabZy be expected to interfere with ehforcemenl
proceedings. IB/ would deprive a
person of a right to a fair trial or en imparH11234
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 198$
lial adjudicalion. <C1 could reasonably be
eipecled to coTisiituie an untoarranted invasion
of personal privacy, (D> Could reasonably
be erpecled to duc/ose the idenlity of a
confidential source, including a Stale, local,
or foreign agency or auOiorily or any private
institution which furnished information
on a corifidential basis, and. in the case
of a record or iriformation compiled by
criminal law enforcemenl authority in the
covTsr of a criminal investigation or by an
agency conducting a lawful national security
intelligence investigation, information
furnished by a coriHdential source, lEJ
would disclose techniques and procedures
for law enforcemenl investigations or prosecutions.
or would disclose guidelines for
law enforcement investigations or prosecutions
if such disclosure could reasonably be
expected to risk circumvention of the law, or
IFJ could reasonably be expected to endanger
the life or physical safety of any inaividuaU".
lb) ExcLvsKms.—Section SS2 of title 5,
United States Code, is amended In redesignating
subsections to), idl. and te) as subsections
idJ, lei. and ifl respectively, and by inserting
after subsection tbJ the following
new srdisection:
"ic/ill Whenever a request is made which
involves access to records describe in subsection
rbXTHA) and—
"(A) the invesiSgation or proceeding involves
a possible violation of criminal lawt
and
"ISJ there is reason to believe that fiJ the
subject of the invesiiyatton or proceeding is
not aware of ita pendency, and (iH disclosure
of the eTisUmee of the recoil could reasonably
expected to interfere with enforcement
proceedings,
the agerwy may, during only such lime as
that circumstance continuss. treat the
records as not subject to Ore requirements of
this section.
"121 Whenever informas^ records maintained
by a criminal law eriforcement
agency under an informant's name or persotial
identifier are requested by a third
parly according to the informant's name or
personal identifier, the agency may treat the
records as not subject to the requirements of
this section unless the informant's status as
an irtformant has been officially confirmed.
"131 Whenever a request is made which involves
access to records maintained by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation pertaining
to foreign intelligence or counterinlelligence,
or international terrorism, and the
existence of Uie records is classified information
as provided in subsection IbKIJ, the
Bureau may. as long os the erjstence of the
records remains classified in/ormalion,
treat the records as not subject to the requirements
of this section.".
SEC MW. FEES FEE tTAIVEKS.
Paragraph I41IAI of section SSFia) of title
5. Vailed States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
"<4JIAllil In order to carry out the provisions
of this section, each agency shall promulgate
regulations, pursuant to notice and
receipt of public comment, specifying the
schedule of fees applicable to the processing
of reguests under this section and establishing
procedures and guidelines for determining
when such fees should be waived or reduced.
Such schedule shall conform to the
guidelines icfiicA shall be promulgated, pursuant
to notice ond receipt of public comment.
by the Director of the Office of management
and Budget and which shall provide
far a uniform schedule of fees for all
agencies.
"(ii) Such agency regulaUotis shall provide
that—
"III fees shaU be limited to reasonable
standard charges for document uarcK duplication,
and review, when records are requested
for commercial use;
"(III fees shall be limiled to reasonable
standard charges for document duplication
when records are not sought for commercial
use and the request is mode by an educationat
or noncommercial scientific institution,
whose purpose is scholarly or scientific
reseorch; or a represeniative of the news
media: and
"<UII for any regaest not described in ill
or (lU. fees shall be limited to reasonable
standard charges for document search and
duplication.
"HW Documents shall be furnished without
any charge or at a charge reduced tiefou'
tAe fees estaUished under clause (HI if disclosure
of the information is in the public
interest because it is likely to contribute significantly
to public understanding of the operations
or activities of the government and
is not primarily in tfie commercial interest
of the requester.
"(iv! Fee schedules sfcotl provide for the recovery
of only the direct costs of search, duplication.
or review. Review costs shall include
only the direct costs incurred during
the initial examination of a document for
the purposes of determining whether the
documents must be disctosed under this section
and for the purposes of UJitftftotdiny
any portions exempt from disclosure under
this section Review costs may not include
any costs incurred in resolving issues of law
or policy that may be raised in the course of
processing a request under this section No
fee may be eJtaryed by any agency under this
section—
"ftl if the costs of routine collection and
processing of the fee are likely to equal or
exceed the amount of the fee; or
"(III for ony request described in clause
(iilflll or (llll of this subparagraph for the
first two hours of search time or for the first
one hundred pages of duplication.
"(vl No agency may require advance payment
of any fee unless the requester has previously
failed to pay fees in a timely fashion,
or the agency has determined that the
fee vjiU exceed tZSO.
"Ivil Nothing in this subparagraph shall
supersede fees chargeable under a statute
specifically providing for setting the level of
fees for porticuior types of records.
"(viil In any action by a requester regarding
the waiver of fees under this section, the
court shall determine the matter de novo:
Provided. That the court's review of the
matter shall be limited to the record before
the agency.".
SEC. ISM. EFFECTltE DATEE.
(al The amendments made by section li02
sJiaH be effective on tfte date of enactment of
this 4ct. and shall apply wUh respect to any
requests for records, whether or not the request
was made prior to such date, and shall
apply to any civil action pending on such
date.
(bldi The amendments made by section
1803 shall be effective 180 days after the date
of enactment of this Act, except that regulations
to implement such amendments shall
be promulgated by such ISOlh day.
121 The amendments made by section 1803
shall apply with respect to any requests for
records, wheOier or not the request was
made prior to such date, and s/iatl apply to
any civil action pending on such date,
except Chat review charges applicable to
records requeslai for commerciot use shall
not be applied by on agency to requite
made before the effective date specified in
paragraph (11 of Otis subsection or be/ore
the agency has finally issued its regulations.
Sebtffle ^^Prohibition on the Interstate Eate and
Traimportation of Drug Pamphemalia
SEC. ISll. SHOAT TITLE
This subtitle may be cited as the "Idail
Order Drug Paraphernalia ContnH Act".
SEC. 1X31. OFFE.VSE
(a/ It is unlawful for any person—
(11 to make use of the services of the Postal
Service or other interstate conveyance as
part of a scheme to sell drug paraphernalia:
(2! to offer for sale and transportation in
interstate or foreign commerce drug paraphernalia;
or
(3! to import or export drug paraphernalia
(bl Anyone convicted of an offense under
subsection (al of tftis section shoU be imprisoned
for not more than three years and
fined not mare than tlOO.OOO.
(cl Any drug paraphernalia involved in
any violation of subsection faJ of this section
shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture
upon the conviction of a person for such
violation. Any such pamphemalia shall be
delivered to the Administrator of General
Services. General Services Administralion,
who may order such paraphernalia destroyed
or may auihorixe its use for law enforcement
or educational purposes by Federal,
State, orlocat auttiorities.
(d) The term "drug paraphernalia" means
any equipment, product, or material of any
kind which is primarily intended or designed
for use in manufacturing, compounding,
converting, concealing, producing,
processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting,
inhaling, or otherwise introdueinp into the
ftjiman body a controlled substance in violation
of the Controlled Substances Act (title
fl of Public Law 91-5131. It includes items
primarily intended or designed fOr use in ingesting.
inhaling, or otherwise introducing
marijuana cocaine, hashish, hashish oil,
POP, or amphetamines into the human
body, such as—
(11 metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone,
plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without
screens, permanent screens, hashish heads,
or punctured metal bowls;
(21 water pipes:
(31 carburetion tubes and devices;
(41 smoking and carburetion masks;
(Si roach clips: meaning objects used to
hold burning material, such as a marihuana
cigarette, that has become too small or too
short to be held in the hand;
(61 miniature spoons with level capacities
of one-tenth cubic centimeter or less:
(71 chamber pipes:
'81 carburetor pipes;
(91 electric pipes;
(101 air-driven pipes;
(111 eftittums;
(121 bongs:
(131 ice pipes or chillers:
(141 wired cigarette papers; or
(151 cocaine freebase kits.
(el In determining ujheiber on item constitutes
drug paraphernalia in addition to oU
other logically relevant factors, the following
may be considered:
(11 instructions, oral or written, provided
with the item concerning its use;
(21 descriptive materials accompanying
Ike item which explain or depict its use;
(31 national and local advertising concerning
its use;
(4/ the manner in which the item is displayed
for sale:
(51 whether the owner, or anyone in controt
of the item, is a legitimate supplier of
like or related items to tfte community, such
as a licensed distributor or dealer of lobacco
products:
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11235
161 direct or circvmstanlial evidence of
the ratio of sales of the itemfs) to the total
sales of the business enterprise;
17/ the existence and scope of legitimate
uses of the item in the communitv: and
tSl expert testimony concerning its use.
<f/ This subtitle shall not apply to
tl/ any person authorie^ by local, State,
or Federal law to manufacture, possess, or
distribute such items; or
12/ any item that, in the normal lawful
course of bxtsiness. is imported, exported,
transported, or sold through the mail or by
any other means, and primarily intended
for use XDith tobacco products, including any
pipe, paper, or accessory.
SKC tsts. LFFF. f T n E DATF„
This subtitle shall become effective 90 days
after the dale of enactment of this Act.
Subtitle P—Uauufacturing Operatioiu
SEC. IS4I. .UAMFACTL/U.'/a OFEHATtON.
ta/ Part D of the Controlled Substances
Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following new section:
"ESTABL.'SH/^ENT OF MANUFACTUKrNO
OPERATrONS
"SEC. 416, (a/ Except as authorised by this
title, it shall be unlauiful to—
"H/ knowingly open or maintain any
place for the purpose of manufactunng, distributing,
or using any controlled substance;
"12/ manage or control any building,
room, or enclosure, either as an oioner,
lessee, agent employee, or mortgagee, and
/cnowingly and intentionally rent lease, or
make available for use, with or without
compensation, the building, room, or enclosure
for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing,
storing, distributing, or using a controlled
substance.
"'b/ Any person who violates subsection
ta/ of this iecMon shall be sentenced to a
tern of imprisonment of not more than 20
years or a fine of not more than tSOO.OOO. or
both or a fine of 62,000.000 for a person
other than an individual
<b/ Section 40SA of the Controiterf Substojuxs
Act is atnended—
tl/ in subsection fa/ by inserting ajter
"iection tOUa/tl/" the following: "or section
416"; and
12/ in subsection (b/ by inserting after
"section 40ifa/tl/" the following: "or section
416".
Subtitle Q^-Controiled Substances Technieat
Amendments
SEC MS/. DCTIBS OF DIRECTOR OF ADm.VISTRATIfE
OFFICE AbD A VTHORIZA T/OiVS
to) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be
cited as the "Drug and Alcohol Dependent
Offenders Treatment Act of 1986".
lb/ PERMANENT AMENDMENT REIATINA TO
DUTIES OF D/RECTOR or ADM/NISTRATIVE
OFFICE.—<1/ The section of title 18, United
5tatej Code, that is redesignated section
3672 by section 2121a/ of the Comprehensive
Crime Control Act of 1984 is amended by
adding at the end thereof:
"He shall have the authority to contract
with any appropriate public or private
agency or person for the detection of and
care in the community of an offender who is
an alcohol-dependent person, or an addict
or a drug-dependent person within the
meaning of section 2 of the Public Health
Senhce Act 142 U.S.C. 201). This authorttir
shall include the authority to provide equipment
and supplies; testing; medical, educatianal,
social, psychological, and vocational
services; corrective and preventive guidance
and training; and other rehabilitative services
designed to protect the public and benefit
the alcoAoJ dependent person, addict, or
drug dependent person by eliminating his
dependence on alcohol or addicting drugs,
or by controlling his dependence and his
susceptibility to addiction. He may negotiate
and award such contracts without
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes
141 V.S.C. S/.
"He shall pay for presentence studies and
reports by qualified consultants and presentence
examinations and reports by psychiatric
or psychological examiners ordered by
the court under subsection lb/ or icJ of section
3SS2. except for studies conducted by
the Bureau of Prisons.".
12/ The amendment made by this section
shall take effect on the date of the taking
effect of such redesignation.
Ic/ INTER/M AMENDMENT REIAT/NQ TO DUTIES
OF DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. 77ie
second paragraph of section 4255 of Htle 18,
United States Code, is amended to read as
follows;
"The director of the ^dTninistrative Office
of the United States Courts shall have the
authority to conirttcl with any appropriate
public or priiHite agency or person for the
detection of and care in the community of
on offender who is an alcohol-dependent
person, or an addict or a drug-dependent
person within the meaning of section 2 of
the Public Health Service Act 142 U.S.C.
201). Such authority inctuctes the authority
to provide equipment and supplies; testing;
metticoi, educational, social' psychological
and vocational services; corrective anit preventive
guidance and training; and other rehabilitative
services designed to protect the
public and benefit the alcohol dependent
person, addict or drug dependent person by
eliminating that person's or addict's dependence
on alcohol or addicting drugs, or
by controlling that person's or addict's dependence
and susceptibility to addiction.
Such Director may negotiate and award
such contracts without regard to section
3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States 141 U.S.C. 5/.".
Idl REAUTHORIZATION OF CONTRACT SERVICES.—
Section 4la/ of the Contract Services
for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act of
1978 is amended—
11/ by striking oat "and 86.000,000" and
inserting "86.500.000"in lieu thereof: and
12/ by slri/dng out the two periods at the
end and inserting in lieu thereof ";
812.000,000 far the fiscal year ending September
30. 1987; 814.000.000 for the fiscal
year ending September 30. 1988; and
$16,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1989.".
SEC. /m. AME-VDMESr TO SECTION SSS OF THE
TAR/FF.ACT.
<a> Section SO# o/the Tariff Act of 1930 119
U.S.C. 1608) is amended by strilcing out
"82.500" and inserting in tiea thereof
"85.000".
lb) Section 608 of such Acl as enacted by
Put/lie Law 98-473, is repeated.
SEC /SSI. AiHEND.II£NTS TO SBCnoN Sll OP THE
TARIfTACT.
la) Subsection Ic) of section 6tS of the
Tariff Act of 1930 119 U.S.C. 1616alct) as enisled
by Public Law 98-573 is amended by
inserting "any other Federal agency or to"
after "property forfeited under this Act to".
lb) Section 616 of such Act, as enacted by
Public Law 98-473. is repealed.
SEC. ISSl CROSS RBFERE.NCE CORRECTIO.VS.
Section 423 of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 853) is amended—
11) in subsection Ic) and in the second subsection
ih). by striking out "subsection foJ"
and inserting "subsection in)" in lieu thereof;
12) in subsection ip by striking out "subsection
If)" and inserting "subsection lei" in
lieu thereof
(3) in subsection HXl). by striking out
"this chapter" ond inserting "this title" in
tieu tJiereof; and
14) bp redesignating the second subsection
Ih) as subsection Ik).
SEC. mi WARRANTS RELAT/SG TO SEtZt'KB.
Subsection lb) of section 511 of the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
Act of 1970 121 U.S.C. S81lbJ) is amended—
11) by striking out "or criminal" after
"Any property subject to civil";
12) in paragraph (4). by strUcing out "or
criminal" after "is sublet to civil": ond
13) by adding the fallowing at the end
thereof:
"The Government may request the issuance
of a warrant authorixing the seizure of
property subject to forfeiture under this section
in the same manner as provided for a
search warrant under the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure.
lb) Subsection (i) of section Sll of the
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and
Control Act of 1970 121 U.S.C. SSIIV) is
amended by inserting or a violation of
State or local law that could have been
charged under this title or title HI." after
"tUle HI ".
SBC. ISSS. MINOR TECH.NICAI, A.MBNO.VE.\TS.
la) Section 403ia)l2) of the Controlled
Substances Act 121 U.S.C. S43la)l2)) is
amended by striking out the period at the
end and inserting a semicolon in lieu thereof.
lb) Section 40SAib) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 84Salb» is amended
by striking out "special term" and inserting
"term of supervised release" in lieu thereof.
Ic) Section 405Aic) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 84Saic)l is amended
by striking out "section 4202" and inserting
"chapter 311" in lieu thereof.
Id) Section I008(e> of the Controlled Substances
Import and Export Act 121 U.S.C.
95Sie)) is amended by striking out "section"
the first place it appears and inserting "sections"
in lieu thereof.
let Section 10l9lb)l3t of the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act 121
U.S.C. 960lb)l3/J is amended by striking out
except as provided in poroflroph (4)".
tft The tobte of contents for the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse frerention and COTitrot
Act of 1970 is amended—
11) by inserting after the item relating to
section 405 the following:
"Sec. 405A. Manufacture or distribution in
or near schools,
"405B. Employment of minors in controlled
substance trafficking.";
and
12) by inserting after the item relating to
section 414 the following:
"Sec. 415, Alternative fine.".
SSa IM7. MODIFICATION OF COCAINE DBFmiTION
FOR PURPOSES OFSCHEDl'LE It
Subsection Ia)i4) of schedule H of section
2021c) the Controlled Substances Acl (21
U.5L C. 812/ is amended to read as foUotos:
"14) Coca leaves icxcept coca leaves and
extracts of coca leaves j^m which cocaine,
ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or
their salts have been removed); cocaine, lis
salts, optical and geometric isomers, and
salts of isomers; and ecgonine. its derivatives.
their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers.
SEC less. AUTHORNR or ATTORNEY CE.VBRAI. TO
ENTER INTO A/NTRACTE WITH STATE
AND LOCAL LAW SNFORCSMBNTAGENCIES.
Section 5031a) of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 873lal) is amended—
H) by striking out "and" at the end of
paragraph 15):
(2) by striking out the period at the end of
paragraph 16) and inserting in lieu thereof
"; and"; and
H11236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE October 17, 1986'
'3J by adding at the end thereof the following:
"171 notwithstanding any other provision
of law, enter into contractual agreements
with State and local law enforcement agencies
to provide for cooperative e'lforcement
and regulatory activities under this title.
SEC ises. Ai THonrry of AnoRSEr cesfrai. to
DEI'i TIZE ST.tTE A.\l> t.OCM /.4 " A'.V.
FORCEMEST OFFICERS FOR COSTROI.
LF:II SI HSTASCES Fyn>RCE,HK.\r.
Section SOS of the Controlled Substances
Act (21 V.S.C. 878) is amendedm
by inserting "lai" before "Any officer
oremployee":
12/ by inserting after "Drug Enforcement
i4dmrRf«traiion" the folloioing: "or twith respect
to offenses under £/iis tide or title III/
any Slate or local law enforcement officer";
and
13/ by adding at the end thereof the following
new subsection:
"tbl Stale and local law enforcement officers
performing functions under thi,s section
shall not 6e deemed Federal employees and
shall not be subject Co provisions of law relating
to Federal employees, except that such
officers shall be subject to section 33741c/ of
title S, United States Code.
SEC isrt a.,iRIFI( A TIO\ OF I.SO.HER IIEFI.MTIO.R.
The jecond and third sentences of section
102114/ of the Controlted Substances Act 121
U.S.C. 802(14// are each amended by striking
out "the" after "the term 'isomer'
means" and inserting in lieu thereof "any".
Subtitle R—I'reeursor and Essential Chemkal
Hveieie
SEC. ISO/. RRECCRSOR -l.VO ESSE.VTl.il CIIEWCAL
RE VIE IF.
lai Study ard RFFORr.~The Attorney General
shall—
11/ conduct a study of the need far legislation,
regulation, or alternative methods to
control the diversion of legitimate precursor
and essential chemicals to the illegal production
of drugs of abuse; and
12/ report all findings of such study to
Congre.ss not later than the end of the 90th
day after the date of enactment of this subtitle.
Ibi CoNsiDERATJONS.—ln Conducting such
study the Attorney Genera! shall take into
considemCion that-
Ill clandestine manufacture continues to
be a major source of narcotic and dangerous
drugs on the illegal drug market;
12/ these drugs are produced using a variety
of chemicals which are found in commercial
channels and which are diverted to illegal
uses;
(3/ steps have been taken to deny drug
traffickers access to key precursor chemicals,
including thai—
(A/ P2P, a precursor chemical used in the
production of amphetamines and methamphelamines
was administratively controlled
in schedule II of the Controlled Sufisiances
by the Drug Enforcement /Idminisiroiion.'
IB/ a variety of controls were placed on pipcridine,
the precursor for phencycHdine, by
the Psychotropic Substance Act of 1978: and
IC/ the Drug Enforcement Administration
has maintained a voluntary system in cooperation
with chemical industry to report
suspicious purchases of precursors and essential
chemicals: and
14) despite the formal and voluntary systems
that currently exist, clandestine production
of synthetic narcotics and dangerous
drugs continue to contribute to drug
trafficking and a6iiie problems in the
United States.
Subtitle S—While House Conference for a Drug
Free A merlea
SEC mil. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "White
House Conference for a Drug Free America".
SEC miL ESTABLISIIRE.W OF THE CO.\FERE,'eCE.
There is esiaftfisfted a conference to be
fcnoti'n as "The While House Conference for
a Drug Free America". The members of the
Conference shall be appointed by the President
SEC. mil. PCIWOSE
The purposes of the Conference are—
fll to share information and experiences
in order to vigorously and directly aiioc*
drug abuse at alt lex>els. local Stale, Federal
and international'
<2! to bring public aiienfton to those approaches
to drug abuse education and prevention
which have been successful in eur6-
ing drug abuse and those methods treatment
which have enabled drug abusers to
become drug free:
131 to highlight the dimensions of the drug
abuse crisis, to examine the progress made
in dealing with such crisis, and to assist in
formulating a national strategy to thwart
sale and solicitation of iUicii drugs and to
prevent and treat drug abuse; and
14/ io examine the essential role of parents
and family members in preventing the basic
causes of drug abuse and in successful treatment
efforts.
SEC. IS34. RESPO.\S/Dll.iriES OF THE CO.SFEEESCE.
The Conference shaU specifically review—
<1/ the effectiveness of law enforcement at
the local State, and Federal levels to prevent
the sale and solicitation of iUicit drugs and
the need to provide greater coordination
among such programs;
12' the impact of drug abuse upon American
education, examining in particular—
lAI the effectiveness of drug education programs
in OUT scAoois with parllcular attention
to those. scAoois, 6o/A public and private,
which Acpe maintained a drug free
learning environment;
IB/ the rote of colleges and universities in
discouraging the illegal use of drugs by student-
athletes; and
IC/ the reiaiionsAip between drug abuse by
student-athletes and college aiAielic policies,
including eligibility and academic reguiremenls,
recruiting policies, athletic department
financing policies, the establishment
of separate campus facilities for athletes,
and the demands of practice and lengthy
playing seasons:
13/ the extent to whiph Federal, State, and
local programs of drug abuse education, prevention,
and treatment require rcorganiealion
or reform in order to Aeiter use available
resources and to ensure greater coordination
among sucA programs;
14) the impact of current laios on efforts to
coniro! international and domestic trafficking
of illicit drugs;
15) Die extent Co which the sanctions in
section 481 of the foreipn ^sstsCance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291/ have been, or should
be, used in encouraging foreign states to
comply yjiCA their International responsibiiities
respecting controlling substances; and
(6/ the circumstances contributing to the
Initiation of itlicil drug usage, with particular
emphasis on the onset of drug use by
youth.
SEC. ms. COSFERESVE PARTtCIPASTS.
In order to carry out the purposes and responsibilities
specified in sections 1933 and
1934. the Conference shall bring together individuals
concerned with issues relating to
drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment,
and the production, trafficking, and
distribution of illicit drugs. The President
shall—
(1/ ensure the active participation in the
Conference of Che heads of appropriate executive
and military departments, and agencies.
including the Attorney General, the
Secretary of Education, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services. Secretary of
Transportation, and the Director of
ACTIOS;
i2i provide for the involvement in CAe
Conference of other appropriate public officials,
including Members of Congress, Governors
of Slates, and Afayors of Cities;
(31 provide for the involvement in Che
Conference of private entities, especially
parents' organisations, which have been
active In the fight against drug abuse: and
14/ provide for the involvement in the
Conference of indiridunis distinguished in
medicine, law. drug abuse treatment and
preveniioji. primary, secondary, and postsecondary
education, and law enforcement.
SEC. ISIS. AD,VI.\I.STRATnB PHUyiSW.YS.
laJ All Federal departments, agencies, and
instrumentalities shall provide such support
and assistance as may be necessary to facilitate
the planning and administration of the
Conference.
lb/ The President is authorised to appoint
and compensate an executive dfreccor and
such other directors and personnel for the
Conference as the President may consider
adidsable, without regard to the provisions
of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments
in the eompeCiCive service, and
without regard to the provisions of chapter
SI and suAcAapfer III of chapter 52 of such
title relating to classification and General
Schedule pay rates.
Id Upon request by the executive director,
the heads of the executive and military departments
are authorized to detail employees
to work with the executive director in
planning and administering the Conference
without regard to the provisions of section
3341 of title 5. United States Code.
fdi Each participant in the Conference
shall be responsible for the expenses of such
participant in allending the Conference,
and shall not be reimbursed for such expenses
from amounts appropriated to carry
out this subliDe.
EEC. 1931. FISAI. REPORT A.RD FOLtOR-VP ACTMSK
(a) Final Report.—No later than six
monCAs after the effective dale of this Act,
the Conference shall prepare and CransmfC a
final report to the President and lo Congress,
pursuant to sections 1933 and 1934.
The report shall include the findings and
recommendations of the Conference as well
OS proposais for any legislative acCion necessary
lo implement such recommendations.
lb) FoLLOw-vp i4cr/OA's.—TTic fresideiii
sAci! report to the Congress annually,
duriny CAe 3-year period following Che submission
of the final report of the Conference,
on the status and implementation of the
findings and recommendations of the Conference.
SEC I93S, AITUORIZATIOR.
There are Aerefiy ouCAorieed Co be appropriated
82-000,000 for /iscoC year 1988 for
purposes of this subtitle.
Subtitle I,—CommoR Carrier Opemtion Under the
Influence of Alcohol or Drugs
SEC. 1971. OPFE.RSFlal
Part I of CiCie 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after chapter 17, the
following:
"CHAPTER i7i4-COMitfOA' CARRIER OPERATION
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
ALCOHOL OR DRUGS
"Sec,
"341. Definitions.
"342, Operation of a common carrier
under the influence of alcohoi or
drugs.
"343, Presumptions.
"S341. Dennitlons
"As used in this cAapCer, the term
'common carrier' means a rail carrier, a
October 17. 1986
sieeptnff car carrier, a bus transporting pas.
sengers in interstate commerce, a water
common carrier, and an air common carrier.
OperaUon of e common terrier eiider the
influence of alcohol or drugs
"Whoever operates or directs the operation
of a common carrier while under tixe influence
of alcohol or drugs, shall be imprisoned
not more than Ave years or Aned not more
than tlO.OOO. or both.
"SSIS. PresBmpttons
"For purposes of this chapter—
"111 an individual viith a blood alcohol
content of .10 or more shall be conclusively
presumed to be under the inAuence of alcohol;
and
"(21 an individual shall be conclusively
presumed to be under the inAuence of drugs
U the guantity of the drug in the system of
the individual would be sufficient to impair
the perception, mental processes, or motor
functions of the average individuaL".
lb) The table of chapters for pari / of title
18, United States Code, is amended by
adding after ttie item for chapter 17 the following:
"17A. Common Carrier Operalion Under
the IriAuence of Alcohol or Drugs
Su^iitle U.—Federal Drug Law Br^Aircement
Agent Protection Act of 1986
sue IStl. SHORT TITLE.
This suhttUe may be cited as the "FedenU
Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection
Act of 1986".
SRC iset AMkTfDMKPT TO TVB COfiTftOLLSB SVBSTAMCEIACT.
Subsection le) of section $11 of the Controlled
Substances Act 121 U.S.C. SSlle)/ is
amerided by—
111 inserting after "(e)" tftc fbOowing;
"ID";
12) redesignating paragrap)is (1), (2). (3).
and 14) as subparagmphs IA>. (B), IC>, and
ID), respectively and
13) striking out the matter of following
subparagraph <D), as redesignated, and inserting
in lieu thereof the following;
"(ZXA) The proce^ from any sale under
subparagraph (B) of paragraph ID and any
moneys forfeited under this title shall be
used to pay—
"HI all property cipejises of the proceedings
for forfeiture and sale including expenses
of seizure, maintenance of custody,
advertising, and court costs; and
"Hi) cipords of up to $100,000 to any individual
who provides original information
which leads to the arrest and conviction of a
person who kiils or kidnaps a Federal drug
law enforcement agent
Any award paid for information concerning
the killing or kidnapping of a federal drug
law enforcement agent, as provided in
clause Hil. shall be paid at the discretion of
the Attorney Generoi
"(B) The Attorney General shall forward
to the Treasurer of the United States for deposit
in accordance with section 524(c) of
title 28. United Slates Code, any amounts of
such moneys and proceeds remaining after
patrrnent of (he eipenses provided in subparagraph
fA).".
Strike out title II of the House amendment
and insert in lieu thereof the following;
TITLE II—INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL
SBC saO). SHORT TITLS.
This title may be cited as the "Intemational
Narcotics Control Act of 1986".
SBC. isez ABDmOHAt Fl'HDHte FOR mTRRHAnONAL
IHARCOTICS COHTRUL AmSTANCB
AXD REGKhXAL COOPERATION.
Section 482la)(l) of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291a(a)(l); authorUs-
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
ing appropriations for assistance for international
narcotics control) is amended—
'D by striking out SSZSBS.OOO for the
fiscal year 1987"and inserting in lieu Oiereof
"$75,445,000 for the fiscal year 1SS7"; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: "In
addition Co the amounts authorized by the
preceding sentence, there are authorized to
be appropriated to the President $45,000,000
for the fiscal year 1987 to carry oui the purposes
of section 481. except that funds may
be appropriated pursuant to this additional
authorization only if the President has submitted
to the Congress a detailed plan for
the expenditure of those funds, including a
descrtplion of how regional cooperation on
narcotics conlrol matters ipould 6e promoted
by the use of those funds. Of the funds awtharized
to be appropriated by the preceding
sentence, not less than $10,000,000 shall be
available only to provide helicopters or
other aircraft to countries receiving assistance
for fiscal year 1987 under this chapter.
These funds shall be used primarily for aircraft
which loill be dosed in Latin i4merlco
for use for narcotics control eradication and
interdiction efforts throughout the region.
These aircraft shall be used solely for narcotics
control, eradication, and interdiction efforts
and shall be ariiadie primarily for use
in Latin America.".
SBC. tSOS. AfRCRAfT PROriDBD TO FORBm.S COV.NTRIBS
FOR .NARCOTICS CONTROL PVR.
INKSKS: RBTKNTION OF TITLB AND
RECORDS OF VSB.
Chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291 et seg.; relating
to the international narcotics control
assistance program) is amended by adding
at the end the /Allowing new sections;
"SBC. 184. RBTKNTION OF TITLB TO A IRfRAFT.
"Any aircraft which, at any time after the
enactment of this section, are made available
to a foreign country under this chapter,
or are made available to a foreign country
primarily for narxxilics-related purposes
under any other provision of law. shall be
provided only on a lease or loan basis.
SEC 48t RECORDS OF AIRCRAFT LSE.
"(a) REOVIREMBNT TO MAINTAIN RECORDS.—
The Secretary of State shall maintain detailed
records on the use of any aircrafl
made available to a foreign country under
this chapter, including aircraft made available
before the enactment of this section.
"(b) CONaRBS.1IONAL ACCSSS TO RECORDS.—
The Secretary of Stale shall make the
records maintain^ pursuant to subsection
(a) available to the Congress upon a reguest
of the Chairman of the Committee on foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives
or the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate
.SBC. mi. PILOT A.NO AIRCRAFT MA/NTE.NANCB
TRAINING FOR NARCOTICS CONTROL
ACTimiBS.
la) EARMARKiNa or Fu.xDs.-Not less than
$2,000,000 of the funds made available for
fiscal year 1987 to carry out chapter S of
port 11 of the Foreign jisststance i4cl of 1961
(22 V.S.C. 2347 et seg.; relating to international
military education and training)
shall be available only for education and
training in the operation and maintenance
of aircraft used in narcotics control interdiction
and eradication efforts.
lb) RELATIONSHIP TO INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—Assistance
under this section shall de coordinated
with assistance provided under etiapler
8 of part I of the Act (22 U.S.C. 2291 et
seg.: relating to international norcotics controll.
fc) WAIVBR OP SECTION 660.—Assistance
may be provided parsuont to this section
notwithstanding the prohibition contained
in section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act
H11237
of 1981 <22 V.S.C. 2420; relating to police
training).
SET. ISOS. RESTRIMO.NS OF THE PROtlS)O.N OF
l.NITED STA TBSASSISTA.WB.
la) RESTRICTIONS.—Section 481lhJ of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended
to read asfoUows:
"IhJID Sudlect to paragraph 12), for every
major illicit drug producing country or
major drug-transit country—
"lA) 50 percent of United Stales assistance
allocated for sucli country notified to Congress
in the report reguired under section
6531a) of this Act shall be tcilAAeld from obligation
and expenditure; and
"IB) on or after March 1. 1987. and on
March I of each succeeding year, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall instruct the
United States Executive Director of the
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, the United Stales Execuiive
Director of the International Development
Association, Die Cnited States Execuiive Director
of the Inter-American Development
Bank, and the United States Execuiive Director
of the Asian Development Bank to
vote against any loan or other utilization of
the funds of their respective inslHutian to or
for such country.
"(2IIA) The assistance withheld by paragraph
IDIA) may be obligated and expended
and the provisions of paragraph (DIB) shall
not apply if the President determines, and
so certifies to tde Congress, al the time of
the submission of. the report reguired by subsection
le). that—
"liJ during the previous year the country
has cooperated fully with the United States,
or has taken adeguate steps on its own, in
preventing narcotic and psycAotropic drugs
and other controlled sudstanccs produced or
processed, in whole or in part, in such country
or transported through such country,
from being sold UlegaUy within the jurisdiction
of such coantnr to United States Government
personnel or their dependents or
from deing transported, directly or indirectly.
into the United States ond in preventing
and punishing the laundering in that country
of drug-related profits or drug-related
monies: or
"tiiJ for a country that would not otherwise
qualify for certifieaOon under sudclause
H), the vital national interests of the
United States require the provision of stich
assistance, or
"IB) If the President makes a certification
pursuant to clause lAXii), he shall include
in such certification—
"IV a full and complete description of the
vital naiionai interests placed st risk should
assistance, or financing not be provided
such country; and
"Hi) a statement weighing the risk described
in subclause li) against the risks posed to
the pitol national interests of the United
States by the failure of such country to coop-
^js^te fully with the United States in comdotting
narcotics or to take adequate steps to
combat narcotics on its own.
"13) In making the certification required
by parograpA 12) of this subsection, the
President shall give foremost consideration
to whether the actions of the government of
the country have resulted in the maximum
reductions in iilicii drug production which
were determined to be achievable pursuant
to subsection ie)i4). The President shall also
consider whether such government—
"lA) has taken the legal and law enforcement
measures to enforce in its territory, to
the maximum extent possible, the elimination
of illicit cultivation and the suppression
of illicit manufacture of and traffic in
narcotic and psychotropic drugs arul other
controlled substances, as evidenced by seizures
of sucA drugs and substances and of ilH
11238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE October 17, 1986
/tcti laboralories and the arrest and prosecution
of violators involved in the traffic
in such drugs and substances significantly
affecting the United States: and
"tB! has taken the legal and law enforcement
steps necessary to eliminate, to the
maximum extent possible, the laundering in
that country of drug-related profits or drugrelated
monies, os evidence by—
"H) the enactment and enforcement of
laws prohibiting such conduct, and
"tiij the uhllingness of such government to
enter into mutual legal assistance agreements
with the United States governing (but
not limited to) money laundering, and
"(in) the degree to which such government
otherwise cooperates with United States law
enforcement authorities on anti-money
laundering efforts,
"(4)fA) The provisions of paragraph <1)
s h a l l apply without regard t o paragraph ( 2 )
if the Congress enacts, within 30 days of
continuous session after receipt of a certification
under paragraph (2), joint resolution
disapprovriig the determination of the President
contained in such certification,
"iB)ii) Any such joint resolution shall be
considered in the Senate in accordance with
the provisions of section 601(b) of the International
Security Assistance and Arms
£jrport Control Act of 1976.
"(ii) For the purpose of expediting the consideration
and enactment of joint resolution
under this subsection, a motion to proceed
to the consideration of any such joint resolution
after it has been reported by the appropriate
committee shall be treated as
highly privileged in the House of Representatiivs.
"(S) Any country for which the President
has not made a certification under paragraph
(2) or icitA respect to which the Congress
has enacted a joint resolution disapproving
such certification may not receice
United Slates assistance as defined by subsection
(i)(4) of this section or the financing
described in paragraph (IXB) of this subsection
unless—
"(A) the President makes a certification
under paragraph (2) and the Congress does
not enact a joint resolution of disapproval;
or
"(B) the President submits at any other
time a certification of the matters described
in paragraph (2) with respect to such country
and the Congress enacts, in occordOTwe
with the procedures Of paragraph (4). a joint
resolution approving such certification.
(b) REPOKTMO DATT.—Section 431(e) of
such Act is amended by striking out "February"
and inserting in tleu thereof "March".
(c) DensmoN.—Section 431(i) of such Act
is amended—
"(I) by striking out "and" at the end of
paragraph (3);
"(2) by striking out the period at the end
paraprapA (4) and inserting in lieu thereof
and": and
"(3) by adding at the end thereof the following
new paragraph:
"(S) the term "major drug-transit country'
means a coKntrp—
"(A) that is a significant direct source of
illicit narcotic or psychotropic drugs or
other controlled substances significantly affecting
the United States:
"(B) tAroupA which are transported such
drugs or substances: or
"to through which significant sums of
drug-related profits or monies are laundered
with the knowledge or compticlty of the government.
(d) CHILD StmvrvAL FVND.—Section
431<i)(4) of such Act is amended by striking
out "or (vi)" and inserting In lieu thereof
"(vi) assistance from the Child Survival
Fund under section 1049<c>(2) of this Act, or
(rii)".
SEC. IM. PEIET.ORXEXR OF IIERBICWES FOR
AEHL.ILCOCA EKADIVATIOS.
The Secretary of State shall use not less
than 31,000,000 of the funds made available
for fiscal year 1937 to carry out chapter 3 of
pari I of the foreign ,dssistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2291 el seq.; relating to international
narcotics control) to finance research
on and tAe development and testing of safe
and effective herbicides for use in the aerial
eradicalion of coca.
SEC. TEE?. REVIEW OF EFFECNVESESS OF INTERSAT/
O.SAL NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE
PROGRMH.
(a) REQVIRELTENT FOR /JVCCSI7G-I770K—77LC
Comptroller General shall conduct a thorough
and complete investigation to determine
the effectiveness of the assistance provided
pursuant to chapter 8 of pert I of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2291 et seq.: relating to international narcotics
control),
lb) REPORTS TO COWG«£SS.—
I I ) P E R I O D I C R S P O R T S .—The Comptroller
General shall report to the Congress periodically
as the various portions of the investigation
conducted pursuant to subsection (a)
are completed.
( 2 ) F I N A L R S P O R T . - N O I later than March 1,
1938, the Comptroller General shall submit a
final report to the Congress on the results of
the investigation. This report shall include
sucA recommendations for administrative
or lepistative action as the Comptroller General
finds appropriate based on £Ae investigation.
SEC. 2WI EXTS.ADITION TO THE UNITED STATES
FOR NARCOTICS-REUTED OFFENSES.
Section 4SHe)(3) of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(0(3): relating to
tAe annual international narcotics control
report) is amended by inserting after subparagraph
(C) the following new subparagraph:
"(D) A discussion of the extent to which
such country has cooperated with the
United Slates narcotics control efforts
through the extradition or prosecution of
drug traffickers, and, where appropriate, a
description of the status of negotiations
with such country to negotiate a new or updated
extradition treaty relating to narcotics
offenses."
SEC. MS. FVREKNPOUCE ARREST ACTIO.SS
Section 481(c) of the Foreign Assistance
.4ct of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(c); commonly
known as the Mansfield amendment) is
amended to read as follows:
"(c)(1) No officer or employee of the
United States may directly effect an arrest
in any foreign country as part of anv foreign
police action with respect to narcotics
control efforts, notwithstanding any otAer
provision of law. This paragraph does not
prohibit an officer or employee from assisting
foreign officers who are effecting an
arrest
"(2) Unless the Secretary of Stale, in consultation
with the Attorney General has determined
that the application of this paragraph
with respect to that foreign country
would be harmful to the national interests
of the United Slates, no officer or employee
of the United States may engage or participate
in any direct police arrest action in a
foreign country with respect to narcotics
control efforts, notwithstanding any other
provision of law. Nothing in paragraph (1)
shall be construed to allow United States officers
or employees to engage or participate
in activities prohibited by this paragraph in
a countrp with respect to which this paragraph
applies.
"(3) l^ragraphs (1) and (2) do not prohibit
an officer or employee from taking direct
action to protect life or safely if exigent circumstances
arise which are unanticipated
ond tcAieA pose an immediate threat to
United A'tafes officers or employees, officers
or employees of a foreign government, or
members of the public.
"(4) WilA tAe agreement of a foreign country,
paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply
with respect to maritime law enforcement
operations in the territorial sea of that
country.
"(5) No officer or employee of the United
Stales may interrogate or be present during
the interrogation of any United Slates
person arrested In any foreign counhy with
respect to narcotics control efforts without
the written consent of such person.
"(6) This subsection shall not apply lo the
activities of the United States Armed Forces
in earrpinp out their responsibilities under
applicable Status of Forces arrangements.".
SEC. MID. I.ISI-A.S'CE OF DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS
FOR DRI G ENFORCEMENT ADMIMSTRATID.
NAGE.VTS ABROAD.
The Congress commends the decision of
the Secretarv of Slate to issue diplomatic
passports, rather than official passports, to
officials and employees of the Drug Enforcement
Administration who are assigned
abroad. The Secretary shall report to the
Congress before making any change in this
policy.
SEC. MIL INFORMATION-SHARING SO THAT VISAS
ARE DENIED TO DRVG TRAFFICKERS.
(a) NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION
SYSTEM.—The Congress is concerned that the
executive branch has not established a comprehensive
information system on all drug
arrests of foreign nafionols in the United
Stales so fAat information may be communicated
to the appropriate United States embassies,
even though the establishment of
such a system is required by section 132 of
the Foreign Relations Authorisation Act,
Fiscal Years 1986 and 1937.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF SYSTEM.—The excoulive
branch shall act expeditiously to establish
the comprehensive information spsfem
required by section 132 of the Foreign Relations
Authorisation Act, fiscot Years 1986
and 1987, and submit to the Congress a
report that the system has been established.
SEC. MIT COXDITJO.YS ON ASSISTANCE FOR BOLIVIA.
(a) OPF.RAriON BLAST FVBNACE.—(H It iS the
sense of the Conpress tAaf—
(A) the Government of Bolivia's recent
drug interdiction operations in cooperation
with the United States (Operation Blast
Furnace) evinced a determination to
combat the growing poiocr of the narcotics
trade and narcotics traffickers:
IB) the operation has had a dramatic
effect on the coca trade in that country by
dropping the price of coca beloic tAe cost of
production;
(C) as o result of this operation the coca
trade has in the short term been sharply constricted;
(D) the restoration of non-coca dependent
economic growth In Bolivia is crucial to the
achievement of long-term progress in controlling
illicit narcotics production; and
( E ) c o n t r o l o f i l l i c i t d r u g p r o d u c t i o n is
crucial to the survival of democratic institutions
and democratic government in Bolivia.
( 2 ) T h e C o n g r e s s , t h e r e f o r e , a p p l a u d s t h e
demonstrated willingness of the Pas Estenssoro
government, despite the risks of severe
domestic criticism and disruptive economic
consequences, to cooperate with the United
Slates in Operation Blast Furnace.
( b ) CoNDiTfONS ON ASSISTANCE.—Paragraph
12) of section 611 of the International Security
and Development Cooperation Act of
I98S is amended by striking out subparagraphs
(A) and (B) and inserting in lieu
thereof the following:
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11239
"lA) up to SO percent oj the angresiate
aiiioiinl of svch assistance allocated for Bolivia
may be provided at any time after the
President certifies to the Congress thai Bolivia
has engaged in narcotics interdiction
operations which haxw significantly disrupted
the illicit coca industry in Bolivia or has
cooperated with the United Slates in such
operations; and
"ID) the remaining amount of such assistance
may be provided at any time after the
President certifies to the Congress that Bolivia
has either met in calendar year I9S6
the eradication targets for the calendar year
1985 contained in its 1983 narcotics agreements
with the United Slates or has entered
into an agreement of cooperation with the
United States for implementing that plan
for 1987 and beyond /including numerical
eradication targets) and is making substantial
progress toward the plan's objectives, including
substantial eradication of illicit
coca crops and effective use of United States
assistance.
"In the certification required by suparagraph
/B), the President shall explain why
the terms of the 1983 agreement proved unattainable
and the reasons why a new agreement
aias necessoTy.
to RELATION TO OTHER PROVISIONS.—Nothing
in the amendment made by subsection
lb) shall be construed as superseding any
provision of section 481 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961.
SEC. sets. REPORTS AND RESTRICTIONS CONCERN.
MO CERTAIN COCNTRIES
la) REPORTS.—Not later than 6 months
after the date of enactment of this Act and
every 6 months thereafter, the President
shall prepare and transmit to the Congress a
report—
U) listing each major illicit drug producing
country and each major drug-transit
country—
lAI which, as a matter of government
policy, encourages or facilitates the pradue-
Cion or distribution of illegal drugs:
IBI in which any senior official of the government
of such country engages in, encourages.
or facilitates the production or distribution
of illegal drugs:
(C> in which any member of an agency of
the United Stales Government engaged in
drug enforcement activities since January 1,
1985, has suffered or been threatened with
violence, inflicted by or with the complicity
of any law enforcement or other officer of
such country or any political subdivision
thereof: or
ID) which, having been requested to do so
by the United States Government, fails to
provide reasonable cooperation to lawful actzvilies
of United Stales drug enforcement
agents, including the refusal of permission
to such agents engaged in interdiction of
aerial smuggling into the United Stales to
pursue suspected aerial smugglers a reasonable
distance into the airspace of the requested
country: and
12) describing for each country listed
under paragraph ID the activities end identities
of officials whose activities caused
such country to be so listed.
lb) RESTRICTIONS.—No United States assistance
may be furnished to any country listed
under subsection la)ri), and the United
States representative to any multilateral development
bank shall vote to oppose any
loan or other use of the funds of such bank
for the benefit of any country iisted under
subsection ia)iD. unless the President certifies
to the Conffress that—
ID overriding vital national Interests require
that provision of such assistance:
12) such assistance would improve the
prospects for cooperation with such country
in halting the flow of illegal drugs: and
13) the government of such country had
made bona fide efforts to investigate and
prosecute appropriate charges for any crime
described in subsection laXDIC) which may
have been committed in such country.
ic) RELATION TO OTHER PROVISIONS.—The
restrictions contained in subsection ib) are
in addition to the restrictions contained in
section 481lh) of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 or any other provision of law.
Id) DEFINITIONS.-FOT purposes of this section.
the terms "major illicit drug producing
country", "major drug-transit country", and
"United Stotes assistance" have the same
meaning as is given to those terms by seclion
48Ili) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961.
SEC. ten. COVBATtNti NiRCOTEKRORIStd.
la) FINDING.—The Confess/tnds that the
increased cooperation and collaboration between
narcotics traffickers and terrorist
groups constitutes a serious threat to United
States national security interests and to the
political stability of numerous other countries,
particularly in Latin America.
Ib) IMPROVED CAPABILITY FOR RESPONDING
TO NARcoTERRORi.sM.—The President shall
take concrete steps to improve the capability
of the executive branch-
ID to collect information concerning the
links between narcotics traffickers and the
act of terrorism abroad, and
it) to develop an effective and coordinated
means for responding to the threat which
those links pose.
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment
of tiiis Act. the President shall
report to the Congress on the steps taken
pursuant to this subsection,
Ic) ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE PROGRAM.-
Of the amounts made available for fiscal
yeor iS87 to carry out section 534 of the Foreign
Assistance Act o/iS6i <22 U.S.C. 2346c;
relating to the administration of justice program),
funds may be used to provide to Colombia
or oifter countries in the region such
assistance as they may request for protection
of judicial or other officials who are
targets of narcoterrorist attacks.
Id) REWARD CONCERNING JORGE LUIS OCHOA
VASQUEZ,—lt is the sense of the Congress that
the authority of section 361b) of the State
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956
122 U.S.C. 2708)b>). as amended by section
5021a) of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security
and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 /Public Law
99-399: enacted August 27. 1986). sAoutd be
used expeditiousiy to establish a reward of
up to S500.000 for information leading to
the arrest or conviction of Jorge Luis Ochoa
Vasquee for narcotics-related offenses,
SEC. lOl.f. MTERimrillN PROCEDVHES FOR VESSEIE
OFfVHEKN REGISTRY.
la) FINDING.—The Congress finds that—
ID the interdiction by the United States
Coast Guard of vessels suspected for carrying
illicit narcotics can be a difficult procedure
when the vessel is of foreign registry
and is located beyond the customs waters of
the United States;
12) before t>oariling and inspecting such a
vessel, the Coast Guard must obtain consent
from either the master of the vessel or the
country of registry: and
13) this process, and obtaining the consent
of the country of registry to further law enforcement
action, may delay the interdiction
of the vessel by 3 or 4 days.
lb) NEGONATIONS CONCERNING INTERDICTION
PROCSDUREE.-
ID The Congress urges the Secretary of
Slate, in consultation with the Secretary of
the department in which the Coast Guard is
operating, to increase effects to negotiate
with relevant countries procedure which
will facilitate interdiction of vessefs suspected
of carrying illicit narcotics.
121 If a country refuses to negotiate with
respect to interdiction procedures, the President
shall take appropriate actions directed
against that country, which may include the
denial of access to United Slates ports to
vessels registered in that country.
13) The Secretary of State shall submit reports
to the Congress semiannually identifying
those countries which have failed to negotiate
with respect to interdiction procedures.
8EC. son. AII8F.88MENTIIE NARCDTICa TRAFFICKMr.
FROM AFRICA.
The President shall direct that an updated
threat assessment of narcotics trafficking
from Africa be prepared. If if is delermined
that an increased threat exists, the assessment
shall e.Taminc the need for the United
States to provide increased narcotics control
training for African countries.
SEC. sols. FOUCY TOUARH MVLTILATERAL DEVELOI'.
MENrilANKS.
Section 4811a) of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 is amended—
ID by redesignating paragraph 13) as
paragraph 14): and
12) by inserting after paragraph 12) the following:
"13) In order lo promote international cooperation
in combatting intemalional trafficking
in illicit narcotics, it shall be the
policy of the United Slates to use its voice
and vote in multilateral development banks
to promote the development and implementation
in the major illicit drug producing
countries of programs for the reduction and
eventual eradication of narcotic drugs and
other controlled substances, including appropriate
ossistaiice in conjunction with effective
programs of illicit crop eradication,
SEC. !OIS. MVLTU.ATER.IL DEYEI.OPMENT BANK ASSlST.
i.NCE HIR DRfC EHADICATIDN
AND CROP HCHSTrnTIONPRUGRAMS.
la) MDB ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND
IMPLEMSNTATION OF DRUG ERADICATION PROGRAM.—
The Secretary of the Treasury shall
instruct the United Slates Executive Directors
of the multilateral development banks
to initiate discussions with other Directors
of their respectij>e banks ond to propose that
all possible assistance be provided to each
major illicit drug producing country for the
d.evelopmenl and implementation of a drug
eradication program, including technical
assistance, assistance in conducting feasibility
studies and economic analyses, and
assistance for alternate economic activities.
lb) INCREASES IN MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT
BANK LENDING FOR CROP SUBSTITUTION
PROJECTS. —The Secretary of the Treasury
shall instruct the United States Executiiie
Directors of the multilateral development
banks to initiate discussions with other Directors
of their respeclive banks and to propose
ihat each such bank increase the
amount of lending by such bank for crop
substitution program.^ which will provide
an economic alternative for the cuUivation
of production of illicit narcotic drugs or
other controlled substances in major illicit
drug producing countries, to the extent such
countries develop and maintain adequate
drug eradication programs.
Ic) NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL REPORT.—
TTie Secretary of the Treasury shall include
in the annual report to the Congress by the
National Advisory Council on Intemalional
Monetary and Financial Policies a detailed
accounting of the manner in which ond the
extent to which Che provisions of this section
have been carried out
I d ) DEFwmoNS.—For purposes of this section-
ID MVLTHATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK.—THE
term "muUilateral development bank"
means the International Bank for iJccoiiH11240
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
airuction and Development, the International
Dex:elopmcnl Association, the Inter-American
Development Bank, the A/rican Development
Bank, and the Asian Dei;e2op7R«Rt
Bank.
12/ MAJOR ILUCIT DRVO PRODVCMO COUNTRY.—
The term "major illicit drug producing
country" has the meaning provided in
section 4SiiiJ(2i of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 <22 U.S.C. 2291(UI2JI.
<3J NARCOTIC DRUG AND CO-VTROU-BD SUBSTANcs.—
The terms "narcotic drug" ond
"controlled substance" have the meanings
given to such terms in. section 102 of the
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 602).
SEC. IBIS. DHI liS AS A S.iTW.IAl SECTHITV FRUBl.
t.H.
The Congress hereby declares that drugs
are a national security problem and urges
the President to explore the possibility of engaging
such essentially security-oriented organisations
as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
in cooperative drug programs.
SEC. sow FIMII.WS a>NCER.M.\G GREATER INTERN.
WWSAL EFFORT TO ADPRESE VRVC
THRE.iT.
The Congress finds that—
(It in response to the growing narcotics
threat to Ike inlemaiional community—
(A) the Single Convention on Narcotic
Drugs. 1961. the 1972 Protocol amending
thai Convention, and the Convention on
Psychotropic Substances were adopted
under United Nations asupices, and
(Bt the United Nations has created ocrious
enli'ies to deal with drug abuse control
and prevention: and
(2/ a greater international effort is re-
Quired to address this Ihreai such as additional
or increased conlribulions by other
countries to the United Nations Fund for
Drug Abuse and Control and greater coordination
of enforcement and eradication efforts.
SEC. 29SI. INTER.NATKiNAL CONFERENCE ON DKVG
ARIWE AND ILUCIT TRAFFICKISG.
la) CoNGRE!<stONAL SUPPORT.—The Congress
hereby declares its support for United
Nations Generai Assembly Resolution 40/
122 adopted on December 13.1965. in whiidt
the General Assembly decided to convene tn
1967. an International Conference on Drug
Abuse and Ulicit Traf.Hcking in order to generate
unii'crsai action to combat the drug
problem in all its forms at the national, regional,
and international levels, and to
adopt a comprehensive outline of future activities.
ibl UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION.—With respect
to United Slates participation in the
International CoTVirenee on Drug Abuse
and niicil Trafficking, the Congress calls on
the President—
( I ) t o appoinl- t h e head o f t h e United
Stalls detepation well in advance of the conference:
and
<2) to ensure that necessary resources are
avaitabtc for United States preparation and
participation.
Id REPORT TO CONORESS.-Not later than
April 30. 1967, the President shall report to
the Congress on the status of United Stales
preparations for the International Conference
on Drug Abuse and litioit Trafficking,
incuding the status of naming the delegation.
the issues expected to arise, and United
States policy initiatives to be tohen at the
conference.
SEC. mt. EFFEITIVESESS OF LVTERNATIONAL
ORUC PREVENTION AS!) CONTROL
SYSTEN.
( a ) STUDY.—The United States should seek
to improve the program and budget effectiveness
of United Nations entities related
to narcotics prevention and control by
studying the capability of existing United
Nations drug-related declarations, conventions.
and entities to heighten international
awareness and promote the necessary strategies
for international action, to strengthen
international cooperation, and to make effective
use of available United Nations
funds.
Ibl REPORT TO ConoRESS.-Not later than
April 30, 1967, the President shall report to
the Congress any recommendations that
may result from this study.
SEC ST2I NARCI/TH-R CONTROL CO.YYENTIONS.
The Congress—
I t ) urges t h a t t h e United Nations Commission
on Narcotic Drugs complete work as
guickly as possible, consistent with the objective
of obtaining an effective agreement,
on a new draft convention apoinst illicil
traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances, in accordance loith the mandate
Srtven the Commission by United Nations
General Assembly Aesotutlon 39/141; and
121 calls for more effective implementation
of existing conventions relating to narcotics.
SEC tot). MEXICO-T'NITED STATES INTERGOVERNMENTAL
CINVMISSKIN.
la) NEGOTIATIONS TO ESTASUSH.—In accordance
with the resolution adopted by the
26th Mexico-United Interparliamentay Conference
which recommended that the Government
of ilfeitco and the Government of
the United States establish a Mexico-United
Stales Intergovernmental Commission on
Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Abuse and
Control, the President should direct the Secretary
of Slate, in conjunction with the National
Drug Enforcement Policy Board, to
enter into negotiations with the Government
of Mesiico to create such a joint intergovemmental
commission.
l b ) MEuaERsiiip.-The commission, which
should meet semiannually, should include
members of the Mexican Senate and Chamber
of Deputies and the United Slates House
of Representatives and Senate, together with
members of the Executive departments of
each Government responsible for drug
abuse, education, prevention, treatment,
and taic enforcement.
Id REPORT TO Cojvoficss.—Wot later than
90 days after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the
Congress on the prepress beinp made in establishing
o commission in accordance with
subsection l a J .
SEC. SFL«. VPW.H PRODUCTION IN PAKISTAN.
la) FINDINGS.—The Conpress .finds that—
II) the production of opium in Pakistan is
expected to more than double in the 1385-
1966 growing season, posing an increased
threat to t/te tieotth and welfare of the people
of Pakistan and the pecpte of the United
States: and
121 despite past achievements, the current
eradication program in Pakistan, which employs
manual eradication of opium poppies,
has proven inadequate to meet this new
challenge.
Ibl NEED FOR MORE EFFECTIVE DR'JG CONTROL
PRooRAM.—The Congress urges that the
Government of Pakistan adopt and fmptement
a comprehensive narcotics control program
which would provide for more effective
prosecution of drug traffickers, increased
interdiction, and aerial eradication
of opium poppies.
id REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of
Stale shall report to the Congress not ioter
than 67 days after the date of enactment of
this Act with Respect to the adoption and
implementation by the Government of Pakistan
of a comprehensive narcotics control
program in accordance with subsection lb).
SEC. MS OPIVM PROM'CTWN IN IRA.N, AFGHANI.
STAN. AND LAOS.
The Conpress calls on the President to instruct
the United Stales Ambassador to the
United Nations to request that the United
Nations Secretary General raise with delegations
to the International Conference on
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking the problem
of illicil drug production in Iran, Afghanistan,
and Laos, the largest opium
poppy producing countries which do not
have narcotics control programs.
SEC. mr. INCREASED Ft NDINr. FOR IISIA DRIN! EDUCATION
PKOGNANS.
In addition to amounts otherwise authorised
to be appropriated, there is authorized
to be appropriated for the United Stales Information
Agency for fiscal year 196?
t2.000.000 which shall be available only for
increasing drug education programs abroad.
These programs may include-
Ill the distribution of films and publications
which demonstrate the impact of
drugs on crime and health; and
12/ exchange of persons programs and
international visitor programs involving
students, educators, and scientists.
SEC. less INCREASED FUNDING FOB AID DRUG EDUCATION
PROGRAMS.
In addition to amounts otherwise aulhorized
to be appropriated, there are authorised
to be appropriated to the Fresidcnt for fiscal
year 1967 63,000,000 to carry out chapter 1
of pari I of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961. which amount shall be pursuant to
section 126ib)i2i of that Act for additional
activities aimed at increasing awareness of
the effects of production and trafficking of
illicit narcotics on source and transit countries.
SEC. leiSi REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON DRUG EDUCATION
PROGRAMS ABROAD.
The Director of the United States Information
Agency and the Administrator of the
Agency for International Development shall
include in their annual reports to the Congress
a description of the drug education
programs carried out by their respective
agencies.
SEC. JMft .V,iAtW/£S CONTROL EFFORTS IN MEXKO
l a ) CGNORSSSIONAL FINDINOA.-The Congress
finds—
11) in their meeting fn August 1966. President
de la Madrid Hurtado and President
Aeapan recognized the unique relationship
between our two countries and the importance
and the desire to respect the sovereignty
of each nation;
12) further, the United Stales government
has actively tcorked to support the Mexican
government in easing its international debt
burden;
13) Both presidents pledged their cooperation
in drug eradication, enforcement and
education;
14) This pledge of cooperation has not
been realized fully because of the inadequate
response of the Mexican government ia'
lAI fully investigating the 1965 murders of
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his
pitot. Alfedo Zavala Avelar;
I B ) f u l l y investipatinp the 1966 itetention
ond torture of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
agent Victor Cortez, Junior.-
I C ) bringing t o t r i a l and e f f e c t i v e l y prosecuting
those responsible for the Camarena
and Zavala murders and those responsible
for the detention and torture of Cortez;
ID) usinp effectively and efficiently the
fleet of aircraft provided by the United
States government for drug eradication and
interdiction; and
I E ) preventing drug t r a f f i c k i n g and drugrelated
violence on the U.S.-Jtfeiican border,
l b ) Therefore, it is the sense of Congress
that unless substantial progress is demonstrated
in the near future on the issues described
in subparagraph IAII4). the PresiOctober
17, 1986
dent should consider taking one or more of
the following measures:
tU imposition of a mandatory travel advisory
for all of Mexico:
<Z) restrictions on foreign assistance tineluding
further disbursements from, the Exchange
Stabilisation Fund and Federal Reserve
Banki;
(3J denial of favorable tariff treatment for
Mexican products;
f4) denial of favorable U.S. votes in multilateral
development banks.
TC) PROSECUTION of THOSE RESPON.HBI.E FOR
THE TORTURE AND MURDER OF DEA AGENTS.—
Of the funds aXlocated for assistance for
Mexico for fiscal year 1987 under chapter 8
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 122 U.S.C. 2291 et seg.: relating to international
narcotics eontrolJ, SL.OOO.OOO shall
be withheld from expenditure until Ike
President reports to the Congress that the
Government of Mexico—
(1/ has fully investigated the 1985 murders
of Drug Enforcement Administration agent
Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot Alfredo
Zavala Aoelar;
12) has fully invesligated the 1986 detention
and torture of Drug Enforcement Administration
agent Victor Cortes, Junior:
and
t3) has brought to trial and is effectively
prosecuting those responsible for those murders
and those resjionsible for (hat detention
and torture.
TITLE III-INTERDICTION
SEC. JM/. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the "National
Drug Interdiction Improvement act of
1986".
•SEC. sm. nNDINGS
The Congress hereby finds thai—
(!) a balanced, coordinated, multifaceted
strategy for combating the growing drug
abuse and drug trafficking problem in the
United States is essential in order to stop
the flow and abuse of drugs within our borders;
12) a balanced, coordinated, multifaceted
strategy for combating the narcotics drug
abuse and trafficking in the United States
should include—
lA) increased investigations of large networks
of drug smuggler organizations;
(B) source country drug eradication;.
<C) increased emphasis on stopping narcotics
traffickers in countries through which
drugsare transshipped;
ID) increased emphasis on dr-u£t education
programs in the schools and workplaces;
I E ) increased Federal Government assistance
to State and local agencies, civic
groups, school systems, and officials in their
efforts to combat the drug abuse and trafficking
problem at the local level; and
IF) increased emphasis on the interdiction
of drugs and drug smugglers at the borders
of the United States, in the air, at sea, and
on the land;
13) funds to support the interdiction of
narcotics smugglers who threaten the transport
of drugs through the air, on the sea,
and across the land borders of the United
Stales should 6e emphasized in the Federal
Government budget process to the same
extent as the other elements of a comprehensive
antidrug effort are empAosised;
14) the Department of Defense and the use
of its resources should be an integral part of
a comprehensive, natonal drug interdiction
program;
15) the Federal Government civilian agencies
engaged in drug interdiction, particularly
the United Slates Customs Service and
the Coast Guard, currently lack the aircraft,
ships, radar, command, control, communications,
and intelligence IC3I) system, and
manpower resources necessary to mount a
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11241
comprehensive attack on the narcotics traffickers
who threaten the United Stales;
16) the civilian drug interdiction agencies
of the United States are currently interdicting
only a small percentage of the illegal,
drug smuggler penetrations in the United
States every year;
17) the budgets for our civilian drug interdiction
agencies, primarily the United
States Customs Service and the Coast
Guard, have not kept pace with those of the
traditional investigative law enforcement
agencies of the Department of Justice; and
(8) since the amendment of the Posse Comitatus
Act tI8 U.S.C. 1385) in 1981, the Department
of Defense has assisted in the
effort to interdict drugs, but they can do
more,
.SEC. sm.
ft is the purpose of this title—
11) to increase the level of funding and resources
available to civilian drug interdiction
agencies of the Federal Government;
12) to increase the level of support from
the Department of Defense as consistent
with the Posse Comitatus Act, for interdiction
of the narcotics traffickers before such
traffickers penetrate the borders of the
United States and
13) to improve otAerdrus interdiction programs
of the Federal Government
Subtitle A—Department of Defense Drug
Interdiction Assistance
SEC. 3SSI. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Defense
Drug Interdiction Assistance Act",
SEC. SOSL. AITHIIRIZATIO.V.
lai AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR
ENHANCED DRUG INTERDICTION ACTIVITIES.—
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated
to the Department of Defense for fiscal
year 1987 for enhancement of drug inteidiclion
assistance activities of the Department
asfollows:
11) For procurement of aircraft for the
Navy. 1138,000.000, to be available for lA)
the refurbishment and upgrading, for drug
interdiction purposes, of four existing E-2C
Hawkeye surveillance aircraft or any other
aircraft of the Naiy which the Secretary
considers better suited than E-2C Hawkeye
surveillance aircraft to perform the drug
interdiction mission, and IB) the procurement
of four replacement aircraft lof the
same type of aircraft refurbished and upgraded
under tAe outAortsation in tAis paragraph)
and related spares for the Navy,
12) For procurement of seven radar aerostats,
$99,500,000.
13) For procurement of eight Blackhawk
helicopters. $40,000,000,
lb) LOAN OF EQUIPMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.—IDlAi The Secretary of Defense
shall make two of the existing aircraft
refurbished and upgraded under subsection
laill) available to the Customs Service and
the other two of such existing aircraft available
to the Coast Guard,
IB) The Customs Service and the Coast
Guard shall each have the responsibility for
operation and maintenance costs attributable
to the aircraft made available to the Customs
Senyice and the Coast Guard, respectively,
under subparagrah lA).
12) TAe Secretary of Defense shall make the
radar aerostats acquired under subsection
Ia)l2> and the helicopters acquired under
subsection Ia)l3) available to agencies of the
United Slates designated by the Chairman
of the National Drug Enforcement Policy
Board established by the National Narcotics
Act of 1984.
13) Aircraft and radar aerostats shall be
made available to agencies under this subsection
subject to the provisions of chapter
18 of title 10, United Slates Code.
to UMITATTON ON PROCUREMENT.—Amounts
appropriated or otherwise made available to
the Department of Defense for procurement
for fiscal year 1987 or any prior fiscal year
may be obligatied for equipment for enhancement
of authorized drug enforcement
activities of the Department of Deferise
under subsection la) or any other provision
of law only if the equipment—
ID is fully supportable within the existing
service support system of the Department of
Defense; and
12) reasonably relates to on existing military,
war reserve, or mobilization requirement
EEC. S9SS. COAST fiVARD ACTIVITIES
la) FUNDING FOR PERSONNEL ON NAVAL VESSELS.—
II) Of the funds appropriated for operation
and maintenance for the Navy for
fiscal year 1987, the sum of $15,000,000 shall
be transferred to tAe Secretary of Transportation
and shall be available only for members
of the Coast Guard assigned to duty as
provided in section 379 of title 10, United
States Code las added by subsection lb)).
12) The active duty military strength level
for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1987 is
hereby increased by 500 alwue any number
otherwise provided by law.
lb) ENHANCED DRUG INTERDTCNON ASSISTANCE.—
H) Chapter 18 of title 10. United
Stales Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following new section;
"S379. AsHignmenl of Coast Guard personnel to
naval vessels for low enfoirement purposes
"la) The Secretary of Z3e/ense and the Secretary
of Transportation shall provide that
there be assigned on board appropriate surface
naval vessels at sea in a drug-interdiction
area members of the Coast (juard who
are trained in law enforcement and have
powers of the Coast Guard under title 14, including
the power to make arrests and to
carry out searches and seisures.
"lb) Members of the Coast Guard assigned
to duty on fionrd naval vessels under this
section shall perform such law enforcement
functions lincluding drug-interdiction functions)—
"ID as may be agreed upon by the Secretary
of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation;
and
"12) as are otherwise within the jurisdiction
of the Coast Guard.
"lO No fewer than 500 active duly personnel
of the Coast Guard shall 6e assigned
each fiscal year to duty under this section.
However, if at any time the Secretary of
Transportation, after consultation with the
Secretary of Defense, determines that there
are insufficient naval vessels available for
purposes of this section, such personnel may
be assigned otAer duty involving enforcement
of laws listed in section 374la)iD of
this title,
"Id) In this section, the term 'drug-interdiction
area' means an area outside the
land area of the United Stales in which the
Secretary of Defense Hn consultation with
the Attorney General) determines that activities
involving smuggling of drugs into
the United States are ongoing,
12) The table of sections at the beginning
of such chapter is amended by adding ot tAe
end the following new item:
"379, Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to
Aacat vessels for law enforeement purposes.
13) Effective on tAe date of the enactment
of this Act, section 1421 of the Department
of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 IPublic
Law 99-145; 9$ Stat. 750), is repealed.
to Use or DEPARTMENT or DEFENSE FUNDS
FOR THE COAST GvARD.—In addition to any
other amounts authorized to be appropriated
to the Department of Defense in fiscal
year 1987, $45,000,000 shall be authorized to
be appropriated for the installation of 360-
degree radar systems on Coast Guard longHI
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range surveiilance aircra/t. Any modi/icatioTu
of existins aircraft pursuant to this
siihsection shall comply with validated reguiremenls
and specifications developed by
the Coast Guard. The limilations contained
in paragraphs IIJ and 12! of section 30S2ic/
shall apply with respect to activities carried
out under this subsection.
Id) INSTALLATION OF 360-DEOREE RAIFAR ON
COAST GUARD SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT.—THE
Secretary of Defense is authorized to use
345,000,000 for the installation of 380-degTee
radar systems on Coast Guard long-range
survelliance aircraft Funds to carry out
this subsection shall be derived as described
in section 3052ibl. Any modifications of existing
aircraft pursuant to this subsection
shall comply icith validated requirements
and specifications developed by the Coast
Guard.
SEC. SB54. REPORT ON DEPENSS DRUG EDUCATION
ACririTIES.
Not later than December 1,1986, the Secretary
of Defense, in consultation with the National
Drug Enforcement Policy Board and
the Department of Education, shall submit
to the Committees on Armed Services of the
Senate and the House of Representatives a
report containing a discussion of—
111 the extent to which youth enrolled in
schools operated by the Department of Defense
for dependent members of the Armed
Forces are receiving education on drug and
substance abuse,
12) the types of drug education programs
that are currently being provided in such
schools,
13) whether additional drug education
programs are needed in such schools, and
14) the extent to which drug education for
youth in grades kindergarten through 12 include
or should include preventive peer
counseling classes.
SEC MS& DRmsG WMIB IMPAIRED
Section 911 of title JO, United States Code,
is amended by inserting "or while impaired
by a substance described in section 912alb)
of this title tarficfe 112albJ)," after
"manner,".
SEC SKS. ASSISTANCE TO CMUAN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
BY DEP.ARTMENT OF OEFE.NSE PERSONNEL
fa) ASSISTANCE TO CIVIUAH LAW ENFORCEMENT.—
Section 3741a) of title 10. United
States Code, is amended by striking out the
period at the end and inserting in lieu thereof
"or with respect to assistance that such
agency is authorized to furnish to any foreign
government which is involved in the
enforcement of similar laws".
lb) EMESOENCY ASSISTANCE.—Section 374fe)
of such title is amended to read as follows:
"IciiD In an emergency circumstance,
equipment operated by or with the assistance
of personnel assigned under subsection
fa) may be used as a base of operations outside
the land area of the United States lor
any territory, commonwealth, or possession
Of the United States/ by Federal law enforcement
officials—
"lA) to facilitate the enforcement of a law
listed in subsection la); and
"IB) to transport such law enforcement officials
in connection with such operations;
if the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney
General, and the Secretary of State jointly
determine that an emergency circumstance
exists.
"I2)IA) Subject to subparagraph IB),
equipment operated by or with the assistance
of personnel assigned under subsection
la) may not be used to interdict or interrupt
the passage of vessels and aircraft
"IB) In an emergency circumstance,
equipment operated by or with the assistance
of personnel assigned under subsection
la) may be used lo intercept vessels ond aircraft
outside the land area of the United
States lor any territory, commonwealth, or
possession of the United States) for the purposes
of communicating tuitft such vessels
ond aircraft to direct such vessels and aircraft
to go to a location designated by appropriate
civilian officials if the Secretarv
of Defense, the Attorney General, and the
Secretary of Stale jointly determine that an
emergency circumstance exists and that enforcement
of a law listed in subsection la)
would be seriously impaired if such use of
equipment were not permitted. Such use of
eijuipment may continue into the land area
Of the United States lor any territory or possession
of the United States) in cases involving
the hot pursuit of vessels or aircraft
where such pursuit began outside such land
area.
"13) For purposes of this subsection, an
emergency circumstance exists when—
"lAl the size or scope of the suspected
criminal activity in a given situation poses
a serious threat to the interest of the United
States; and
"IB) the assistance described in this subsection
would significantly enhance the enforcement
of a toio listed in subsection la).
EEC. mi. ADOMONAL DEPARTMENT OF DF.FENSE
DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE.
la) GENERAL REQUIREMENT.-ID Within 90
days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to
the Congress the following:
IA) A detailed list of all forms of assistance
that shall be made available by the Department
of Defense to civilian drug law enforcement
and drug interdiction agencies,
including the United States Customs Service,
the Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, and the ImmigraXion and
Naturalization Service.
IB) A detailed plan for promptly lending
equipment and rendering drug interdictionrelated
assistance included on such list
12) The list required by paragraph lillAJ
shall include, but not be limited to. a d^
scription of the following matters:
I A) Surveillance equipment suitable for detecting
air, land, and marine drug transportation
activities.
IB) Communications eauipmenl^ including
secure communications.
IC) Support available from the reserve
components of the Armed forces for drug
interdiction operations of civilian drug law
enforcement agencies.
ID) Intelligence on the growing, processing.
and transshipment of drugs in drug
source countries and the transshipment of
drugs between such countries and the
United Stales.
IB) Support from the Southern Command
and other unified and specified commands
thai is available to assist in drug interdiction.
IF) Aircraft suitable for use in air-to-air
detection, interception, tracking, and seizure
by civilian drug interdiction agencies,
including the Customs Service and the
Coast Guard.
IG) Marine vessels suitable for use in maritime
detection, interception, tracking, and
seizure by civilian drug interdiction agencies,
including the Customs Service and the
Coast Guard.
(H) Such land vehicles as may be appropriate
for support activities relating to drug
interdiction operations by civilian drug law
enforcement agencies, including the Customs
Service, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and other Federal agencies
having drug interdiction or drup eradication
responsibilities.
lb) COMMNTEB APPROVAL AND FINAL IMPLEMENTATION.-
Within 30 days after the date
on which the Congress receives the list and
plan submitted under sucb subsection, the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and the House of Representatives s) M
submit their approval or disapproval of
sucft list and plan to the Secretary of Defense.
Upon receipt of such approval or disapproval
the Secretary shall immediately
convene a conference of the heads of the
Federal Government agencies with jurisdiction
over drug law enforcemenl including
the Customs Service the Coast Guard, and
the Drug Enforcement Administration, to
determine the appropriate distribution of
the assets, items of support, or other assistance
to be made available by the Department
of Defense to such agencies. Not later
than 60 days after the date on which such
conference convenes, the Secretary of Defense
and the heads of such agencies shall
enter into appropriate memoranda of agreement
specifying the distribution of such assistance.
ic) EQUIPMENT ST«;ECT TO SECTION
30S2IC).—Equipment identified in this section
is subject to the provisions of section
30521c).
Id) APPUCABIUTY.—Subsections fa) and lb)
shall not apply to any assets, equipmenl
items of support, or other assistance provided
or authorized in any other provision of
this title.
le) REVIEW BY GENERAL AccouimNa
OFTicE.—The Comptroller General of the
United States shall monitor the compliance
of the Department of Defense with subsections
la) and lb). Not later than 99 days
after the date on which the conference is
convened under subsection lb), the Comptroller
General shall transmit to (he Congress
a written report containing the Comptroller
General's findings repardinp the compliance
of the Department of Defense with
such subsections. The report shall include a
review of the memoranda of agreement entered
into under subsection lb).
SEC Ses/L GR4DF. OF DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE TASK FORCE ON DRUG E.NFOSCEME.
NT.
During fiscal year 1987, the numberof officers
of the ilfarine Corps authorized under
section S2Slb) of title 10. United States
Codes, to be on active duty in grades above
major general is increased by one during
any period that an officer of the Marine
Corps is servinp as the Director of the Department
of Defense Task Force on Drug Enforcement
An additional officer in a grade
above major general by reason of this section
may not be in the grade of gemerat
SEC. sess. CIVIL AIR PATROL
la) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of
Congress that—
ID the Civil Air Patrol, the all-volunteer
civilian auxiliary of the Air force, can increase
its participation in and moAe sipni/tcant
contributions to the drug interdiction
efforts of the Federal Government and
12) the Secretary of the Air Force should
fully support thai participation.
lb) AUTHORIZATION.—In addition to any
other amounts appropriated for the Civil
Air Patrol for fiscal year 1987, there are authorized
to be appropriated for the Civil Air
Patrol, out of any unobligated and uncommitted
balances of appropriations fOr the
Department of Defense for fiscal year 1988
which are carried forward into fiscal year
1987, 87.009,000 for the acquisition of the
major items of equipment needed by the
Civil Air Patrol for drug interdiction surveillance
and reporting missions.
f c ) R z p o f i n . — l l ) T h e S e c r e t a r y o f t h e A i r
Force shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations
and on Armed Services o/ the
Senate and the House of Representatives
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QuarUrly reports ichicft contain the following
information:
<A> A description of Utc manner in which
any funds are used under subsection <bJ.
IBi A detailed description of the activities
of the Civil Air Patrol in support of the Federal
Government's drug interdiction program.
12) The first report under paragraph 111
shall be submitted on the last day of the first
guarter ending not less than 90 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act
Subtitle B—Customs Enforcement
sec. 3/SI. SHORT TITLE
This subtitle may be cited as the "Customs
Enforcement Act of 1986".
P.iHTI-AMENDMENTS TO THE TARIFF ACT
OF mo
SEC. sill. OEflMTWES.
Section 401 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 140IJ is amended—
111 by inserting and monetary instruments
as defined in section S812 of title 31,
United States Code" before the period In
subsection Id;
121 by striking out "The term" in subsection
ikl and inserting in lieu thereof "111
The term":
131 by adding at the end of subsection Ikl
the following new paragraph'
"121 For the purposes of sections 432, 433,
434, 448. S8S. and 586, any vessel which—
"lAl has visited any hovering vessel;
"IBi has received merchandise while in
the customs waters beyond the terrilorial
sea' or
"iCi has received merchandise white on
the high seas;
shall be deemed to arrive or have arrived, as
the case may be, from a foreign port or
place.and
141 by adding at Ike end thereof the following:
"(ml CONTRQUED SnBSTSNCE.—The term
'controlled substance'has the meaning given
that term in section 102161 of the Controlled
Substances Act 121 V.S.C. 8021611. For purposes
of this Act, a controlled sixiwiance
shall be tr&iied as merchandise the importation
of which into the United Stales is prohibited,
unless the importation is authorised
under—
"111 an appropriate license or permit; or
"121 the Controlled Substances Import and
Export Act.
SEC Sill. REPIIRT OF ARRIVAL OP VESSELS. VEHICLES.
A\D AIRCRAFT.
Section 433 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1433! ie amended to read as follows:
"SEC. «J. REPORT HE ARRIVAL OF VESSELS. VEHICLE.
S. A.SB AIRCRAFT.
"fal VES.SEL ARRIVAL.—Ill Immediately
upon the arrival at any port or place within
Uie United States or the Virgin Islands of—
"lAl any vessel from a /or^ffn port or
place:
'TBI any foreign vessel from a domestic
port; or
"ICI any •vessel of the United States carrying
bonded merchandise, or foreign merchandise
for which entry has not been made:
the master of the vessel shall report the arrival
at the nearest customs facility or such
other place as the Secretary may prescribe
by regulations.
"121 The Secretary may by regulation—
"lAl prescribe the manner in which arrivals
are to be reported under paragraph 111:
and
" I B I extend t h e t i m e i n which r e p o r t s o f
arrii'oi must be made, but not later than 24
hours after arrival,
"ibi VEHICI.S ARRIVAL.—Ill Vehicles may
arrive in the United States only at border
crossing points designated by the Secretary.
"121 Except as otherwise authorised by the
Secretary, immediately upon the arrival of
preany
vehicle in the United States at a border
crossing point, the person in charge of the
vehicle shall—
"lAI report the arrival; and
"IB) present the vehicle, and all persons
and merchandise lincluding baggage) on
board, for inspection;
to the customs officer at the customs facility
designated for that crossing point
"Id AIRCRAFT ARRIVAL.—The pilot of any
aircraft arriving in the United Slates or the
Virgin Islands from any foreign airport or
place shall comply with such advance notification,
arrival rejicrting. and landing reguirements
as the Secretary may by regulation
prescribe.
"Id! PRESENTATION OF DOCVHENTATION.—
The master, person in charge of a vehicle, or
aircraft pilot shall present to customs officers
such documents, papers, or manifests as
the Secretary may by regulation prescribe.
"lel PROHiBmoN ON DEPARTURES AND DISCHARGE.—
Unless otherwise authorised by
law. a vessel, aircraft or vehicle may, after
arriuinp in the United States or the Virgin
Islands—
"111 depart from the port, place, or airport
of arrival; or
"121 discharge any passenger or merchandise
lincluding baggagei:
only in accordance with regulations
scribed by the Secrelary.".
SBC tin. PENALTIES FOR ARRIVAL, REPORTING.
ENTRT. ASDDEPARTVRB VIOLATIONS
la) FOR VIOLATIONS OF ARRIVAL, REPORTINA,
AND ENTRY RBOVIREMENTS.—Section 436 of
the Tariff Act of 1930 119 U.S.C. 14361 is
amended to read as follows:
•SEC. «FC PE.VALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ARRIVAL
REPORTING. AND E.NTRV REOLIREMENTS.
"la) UNLAWFUL ACTS.—It is unlawful—
"ID to fail to comply wilh section 433:
"121 to present any forged, altered, or false
document paper, or manifest to a customs
officer under seclion 433(d) without revealing
the facts:
"131 to fail to make entry as required by
section 434, 435, or 644 of this Act or section
1109 of the Federal Aviation Act 149 U S-C.
App iS<?9i.-or
"141 to fail to comply with, or violate, any
regulation prescribed under any seclion referred
to in any of paropraptis III through
131.
"Ibl CIVIL PENALTY.—Any master, person in
charge of a vehicle, or aircraft pilot who
commits any violation listed in subsection
lal is liable for a civil penally of 35.000 for
the first uiotation, ond 310.000 for eoeh subsequent
violation, and any conveyance used
in connection with any such violation is
subject to seieure and forfeiture.
'To) CS/MW4I. PENALTY.—In addition to
being liable for a civil penalty under subsection
Ibl, any master, person in charge of a
vehicle, or aircraft pilot who Intentionally
commits any violation listed in subsection
lal is, upon conoiction, Ztabte for a fine of
not more than 32,000 or imprisonment for 1
year, or both; except that if the conveyance
has. or is discovered to have had, on board
any merchandise lother than sea stores or
the equivalent for conveyances other than
vessels) the importation of which into the
United States is prohibited, such individual
is liable far an additional fine of not more
than 310.000 or imprisonment for not more
tban S years, or botb.
"Idl ADDirroNAL CIVIL PENALTY.—If any
merchandise (other than sea stores or the
equivalent for conveyances other than a
vessel) is imported or brought into the
United States in or aboard a conveyance
which was not properly report^ or entered,
the master, person in charge of a vehicle, or
aircraft pilot shall be liable for a civil penalty
equal to the value of the merchajulise and
the merchandise may be seized and /or/elted
unless properiy entered by the importer or
consignee. If the merchandise consists of
any controlled substance listed in section
684, the master, individual in charge of a vehicle,
or pilot shall be liable to the penalties
prescribed in that section.
Ibl INCREASE IN PENALTIES FOR DEPARTURE
BEFORE REPORT OR ENTRY.—Section 585 of
the Tariff Act of 1930 119 U.S.C. 1585/ is
amended—
111 by striking out "shall be liable to a
penalty of35.009," after "vessel"; and
121 by striking out "3S00" and inserting
"35.000 for the first violation, and 310.000
for each subsequent violation,".
SEC. SIN. FE.NALTIES FUR I'NAfTHORtZED VNIOADl.\
G OFHASSE.MiBRS.
Section 454 119 U.S.C, 14541, is amended
by striking out "3500 for each" and inserting
"31,000 for the first passenger and 3500
for each additional".
SEC. SIIS. REPORTING REqUREMENTS FOR INDITIDVMS.
lal AMENDMENT.—Seclion 459 of the Tariff
Act of 1930 119 U.S.C. 14591 is amended to
read as follows:
•SEC 4SS. REPORTING REqVIREME.YTS FOR INDIVIDVALS.
"lal INDIVIDUALS ARRIVING OTHER THAN BY
CONVBYANCE.—Except OS Otherwise authorized
by the Secretary, individuals arriving
in the United States other than by vessel, vehicle,
or aircraft shall—
"111 enter the Untied Stales only at a
border crossing point designated by the Secretary;
and
"121 immediately—
"(A) report the arrival, and
"(B) present themselves, and all articles
accompanying them for inspection;
to the customs officer at the customs facility
designated for that crossinp point
"Ibl INDIVIDUALS ARRIVING BY REPORTED
CONVEYANCE.—Except as otherwise authorized
by the Secretary, passengers and crew
membm aboard a conveyance the arrival in
the United Stales of which was made or reported
in accordance with seclion 433 or 644
of this Act or section 1209 of the Federal
Aviation Act of 19SS, or in accordance with
applicable regalatians, shall remain aboard
the conveyance until authorized to depart
the conveyance by the appropriate customs
officer. Upon departing the conveyance, the
passengers and crew members shall immediately
report to the designated customs fycility
with all articles accompanying them.
"(c) INDIVIDUALS ARRIVING fly UNREPORTED
CONVEYANCE.—Except as otftencise authorized
by the Secretary, individuals aboard a
conveyance the arrival in the United Stales
of which was not made or reported in accordance
with the laws or regulations referred
to in subsection Ibl shall immediately
noti^ a customs officer and report their arrival,
together with appropriate information
concerning the conveyance on or in
which they arrived, and present their property
for customs examination and inspection.
"Idl DEPARTURE FROM DESIGNATED CUSTOMS
FACHJTIES.—Except as otherwise authorized
by the Secretary, any person required to
report to a designated customs facility
under subsection lal. lb), or fc> may not
depart that facility until authorized to do so
by the appropriate customs offtcer.
"lel UNLAWFUL ACTS.—II is unlawful—
"(1) to fail to comply icitA subs^tion la),
lb), or ic):
"I2J to present any forged, ottered, or false
document or paper to a customs officer
under tubseciion la), Ibl, or Id without revealing
the facts;
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"'3J to violate subneclion fdi; or
"'4J to fail to comply xtrilh, or violate, any
regulation prescribed to carry out suftiection
tat, ibl, tc), or fdl.
"</) CmL PBN/ILTY.—Any individual vifio
violates any provision of iuftsecifon let is
liable for a civil penally of tS.OOO for the
first violation, and $10,000 for each subse-
Quenl violation.
"fgl CRJ-VINAL Ps,\ALTY.—In addition to
being liable for a civil penalty under subsection
If), any individual xcho intentionally
violates any pro>nsion of subsection let is.
upon conviction, liable for a fine of not
more than $5,000. or imprisonment for not
more than I year, or both.".
lb) REPB/H-—Section 460 is repealed.
SIT. sue. PKS.ALTtKS FUR FAILURE TO DF.CL.tRf:.
Section 497 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1497) is amended to read as follows:
-SEC 197. PE.SAITIES FOR F.ilLVRE TO DECLARE,
"la) IN GENERAL.—ID Any article which—
"lA) is not included in the declaration and
entry as made: and
"IB) is not mentioned before examination
of the baggage begins—
"H) in writing by such person, if wrillen
declaration and entry was reguired, or
"Hi) orally, if wrillen declaration and
entry tooa not required;
shall be subject to forfeiture and such person
shall be liable for a penalty determined
under paragraph 12) with respect to such article.
"(2) The amount of the penalty imposed
under paragraph II) with respect to any article
is eguat to—
"(A) if the article is a controlled substance.
200 percent of the value of the arlicle:
and
"IBI if the. article is not a controlled substance,
the value of the article.
"lb) VALVE OP CONTROLLED Suflsrvi/vcKS.—
ID Notwithstanding any other protision of
this Act, the value of any controlled substance
shall for purposes of this section, be
egual to the amount determined by the Secretary
in consultation with the Attorney
General of the United Stutes. to be equal to
the price at which such controlled substance
is likely to be illegally sofd to the consumer
of such controlled substance.
"12) The Secretary and the Attorney Gcneral
of the United Slates shall establish a
method of determining the price at which
each controlled substance is likely to be illegally
sold to the consumer of such controlled
substance.
NEC. 3117. EXAWSATION OF BOOKS AND WtTSESSEE
Section 509 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1509) is amended—
(1) by striking out required to be kept
under section SOS of this Act." in subsection
fa)i2) a>id inserting as defined in subsection
lc)ll)iAl,";and
12) by amending subsection iclllllA) to
read as follows:
"lA) The term 'records' includes statements,
declarations, or documents—
"HI required to be kept under section SOS:
or
"Hi) regarding which there is probable
cause to believe that they pertain to merchandise
the imporlalion of which into the
United States is prohibited.
SEC.SIIS.FAIJtEHA.VIFESTS.-IACKOF.tt.i.MFE.'ir.
Section 5S4 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1SS4) is amended—
fD by striking out "$500" each place it appears
and inserting in tieu thereof "$1,060";
(2) by striking out "$S0" in subsection
iaJi2l and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,000";
13) by striking out "S2S" in subsection
la)i2J and inserting in lieu thereof "$500";
and
14) by striking out "$10" in subsection
ia)l2) and inserting in lieu thereof "$200".
SEC. 3119. V.NLADFI LFNLOAVI.NCOF.YERIHANDISE
Section 536 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
U.S.C. 1SS6) is amended—
tl) bp strifcinp out "$1,000" lohererer it appears
and inserting "$10,000"; and
121 by amending subsection le)—
I A) by striAinp out "one league of the coast
of the United Stales" and inserting "customs
waters"; and
IB) by striking out "2 years" and inserting
"15 years".
SEC. 3134. A VIA TIO.N SMVCOUSG.
Part V of title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930
is amended by adding after section 539 the
following new section:
"SEC sstt A VIA TioN s.wr.r,ij.\a
"la) IN GENERAL.—It is unlawful for the
pilot of any aircraft to traruport, or for any
individual on board any aircraft to possess,
merchandise knoicinff, or intending, that the
merchandise will be introduced into the
United Slates contrary to law.
"IblSEA TRANSFERS.—II is unlawful for any
person to Irartsfer merchandise between an
aircraft and a vessel on the high seas or in
the customs waters of the United States if
such person has not been authorised by the
Secretory to make such transfer and—
"U) either—
"lA) the aircraft is owned by a citisen of
the United Stales or is reyistered in the
United States, or
"IB) the vessel is a vessel of the United
States Iwithin Ike meaning of section 3ibl of
the Anti-Smuggling Act (19 U.S.C. I703lb)l,
or
"12) regardless of the nationality of the
vessel or aircraft, such transfer is mode
under circumstances indicating the intent
to make it possible for such merchandise, or
any part thereof, to be introduced into the
United Stotes unlawfully.
"ic) CIVIL PENALTIES.—Any person who riototes
any provision of this section is liable
for a civil penally equal to twice the value of
the merchandise involved in the violation,
but not less than $10,000. The value of any
controlled substance included in the merchandise
shall be determined in accordance
with section 497ib).
"Id) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—In addition to
being liable for a civil penalty under subsection
Ic), any person who intentionally commits
a violation of any provision of this section
is, upon conviction—
"ID liable far a fine of not more than
$10,000 or impTisonmcnt for not more than
S years, or both, if none of the merchandise
inpotred uias a controlled substance; or
"12) liable for a fine oj not more than
$250,000 or imprisonment/or not more than
20 years, or both, if any of the merchandise
involved was a controlled substance,
"le) SEIZURE AND FoRFsm'RE.-
"ID Except as provided in paragraph 12),
a vessel or aircraft used in connection with,
or in aiding or facilitating, any violation of
this section, whether or not any person is
charged in connection with such violation,
may be seized and forfeited in accordance
with the customs laws.
"12) Paragraph H) does not apply to a
vessel or aircraft operated as a common carrier."
"If) DEFINMON OF MERCIUNDISE.—AS uscd
in this section, the term 'merchandise'
means only merchandise the importation of
ichich into the United States is prohibited or
restricted.
"ig) INTENT OF TRANSFER or MERCHANDISE.
For purposes of imposiny civil penalties
under this section, any of the fallowing acts,
when performed within 250 miles of the territorial
sea of the United Stales, shall be
prima facie evidence that the transportation
or possession of merchandise was unlawiful
and shall be presumed to constitute circumstances
indicating that the purpose of the
transfer is to make it possible for such merchandise.
or any part thereof, to be introduced
into the United States unlawfully,
and for purposes of subsection le) or section
596. shall be prima facie evidence that an
aircraft or vessel was used in connection
with, or to aid or facilitate, a violation of
this section:
"ID The operation of an aircraft or a
vessel without lights during such times as
lights are required to be displayed under applicable
law
"12) The presence on an of rcrotl of an aul-
Uiaryfuel tank which is not installed in accordance
with applicable law.
' "13) The failure to identify correctly—
"IA) Oie vessel by name or country of registration,
or
"IBI the aircraft by registration number
and country of registration,
when requested to do so by a customs officer
or other government authority.
"14) The external display of false registration
numbers, false, country of registration,
or. in the case of a vessel false vessel name.
"15) The presence on board of unmanifested
merchandise, the importation of which is
prohibited or restricted.
"16) The presence on board of controlled
substances which are not manifested or
which are not accompanied by the permits
or licenses required under Single Convention
on Narcotic Drugs or other international
treaty.
"(7) The presence of any compartment or
equipment which is built or fitted out for
smuggling.
"18) The failure of a vessel to stop when
hailed by a customs officer or other government
authority.".
SEC 3)31. SEIXI RES.
Section 594 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1594) is amended to read as follows:
"SEI: IW. SEIZURE OF CO.WEy.i.VCE.'i
"la) IN GE.NERAL.-Whenever-
"ID any vessel vehicle, or aircraft; or
"12) the owner or operator, or the master,
pilot, conductor, driver, or other person in
charge of a vessel vehicle, or aircraft;
is subject to a penalty for violation of the
customs laws, the conveyance involved shall
be held for the payment of such penalty and
may be seized and forfeited and sold in accordance
with the customs laws. The proceeds
of sale, if any, in excess of the assessed
penalty and expenses of seizing, maintaining.
and selling the properly shall beheld for
the account of any interested party.
"lb) EXCEPTIONS.—No conveyance used by
any person as a common carrier in the
transaction of business as a common carrier
is subject to seizure and forfeiture under the
customs taics for violations relating to merchandise
contained—
"ID on the person;
"121 in baggage belonging to and accompanying
a passenger being lawfully transported
on such conveyance; or
"13) in the cargo of the conveyance if the
cargo is listed on the manifest and marks,
numbers, weights and quantities of the outer
packages or containers agree with the manifest;
unless the owner or operator, or the master,
pilot, conductor, driver or other person in
charge participated in, or had knowledge of.
the violation, or was grossly negligent in
preventing or discovering the violation.
"Id PROHIBITED MERCHANDISE ON CONVEYANCE.—
If any merchandise the importation
of which is prohibited is found to be, or to
hove been—
"ID on board a conveyance used as a
common carrier in the transaction of busiOctober
17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
ntss as a common carrier in one lir mare
packages or containers—
"lAi thai are not manifested tornot shoicn on biUs o/lading or airwav bills/; or
"IB) whose marks, numbers, weight or
.uantilici disagree with the manifest lor
"ith (he bills of lading or airway biUsi; or
"121 concealed tn or on such a conveyance,
&!it not in the ca)Vo;
the conveyance may be seised, and after investigation,
forfeited unless it is established
that neither the oirner or operator, master,
pUot, nor any other employee responsible for
mainlaining and msurina the accuracy of
Ihe cargo manifest knew, or by the exercise
of the highest degree of care and diligence
could have known, that such merchandise
was on board.
"Id) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this seclion—
"il) The term 'owner or operator' includes—
"tA) a lessee or person operating a conveyance
under a rental agreement or cftartcr
party; and
"IBI the officers and dtreciors of a
corporation;
"IC> station menogers and similar supervisory
ground personnel employed by airlines:
"(D) one or more partners of a partnership;
"IE) representatioes of the owner or operator
in charge of the passenger or cargo operations
at a particular loealion: and
"IF) and other persons with similar responsibilities.
"(2) The term "master' and similar terms
relating to the person in charge of a conveyance
includes the purser or other person on
the conveyance xoho is responsible for maintaining
records relating to the cargo transported
in the conveyance. 'Ye; COSTS AND EXPENSES OF SEIZURE.— UTien a common carrier has been seised tn
accordance with the provisions of subsection
Ic) and it ts subsequently determined
that a violation of such subsection occurred
but that the vessel will be released, the conveyance
is liable for the costs and expenses
of the seizure and detention.
•SAT. 3112. SEARCHES AND SEIZCRES.
Section SB5la) of the Tariff Act of 1930 fI9
V.S.C. ISSSlaii is amended to read as follows:
"(a) WARRANT.—M if any officer or person
aulharieed to make search^ and seizures
has probable cause to believe that—
"lA) any merchandise upon which the
duties hai>e not been paid, or which has been
otherwise brought into the United States unlawfully;
"IB) any property which is subject to forfeiture
under any provision of law enforced
or administered by the United States Customs
Service; or
"lO any document, eontotncr, wrapping,
or other article which is evidence of a violation
of section 592 involving fraud or of any
other law enforced or administered by the
United States Customs Service,
is in any dwelling house, store, or other
building or place, lie may make application,
under oath, lo any justice of the peace, to
any municipal, counly. State, or Federal
judge, or to any Federal magistrate, and
sheif thereupon be entitled to a warrant to
enter such dwelling house in the daytime
only, or such store or offtcr place at night or
by day. and to search for and seize such merchandise
or other article described in the
warrant,
"12) If any house, store, or other building
or place, in which any merchandise or oth^
article subject lo forfeiture is found, is upon
or within 10 feet of the boundary line between
the United States and a foreign counH11245
try, such portion thereof that is iciiftin the
United States may be taken down or removed.
SEC. 3123. FORFEm RF.S.
Section S9S of the Tariff Act of 1930 US
V.S.C. 159Sa) is amended—
11) by striking out "the proviso to" in subsection
la) and inserting "subsection lb) or
Ic) of:
12) by striking out "shall" in subsection
la) and inserting "may"; and
13) by adding at the end thereof the following
new subsection'
"let Any merchandise tJiat is introduced
or attempted lo be introduced into the
United States contrary to law lother than in
violation of section 592) may be seized and
forfeited.".
SEC. 3)14. PROCEEDS OF FORFEtTED PROPERTY.
Section 613 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
U.S.C. 1613) is amended by adding at the
end thereof the following new subsections:
"Ic) TREATMENT OF DEPOSITS.—if prop^y
is seized by the Secretary under law enforced
or administered by the Customs Service, or
otherwise acquired under section 60S, and
relief from the forfeiture is granted by the
Secretary, or his designee, upon terms requiring
the deposit or retention of a monetary
amount in lieu of ihe forfeiture, the
amount recovered shall be treated in the
same manner as the proceeds of sale of a forfeited
item.
"Id) EXPENSES.—In any judicial or administrative
proceeding to forfeit property
under any law enforced or administered by
the Customs Serttice or the Coast Guard, the
seizure, storage, and other expenses -related
to the forfeiture that are incurred by the
Customs Service or the Coast Guard after
the seizure, but before the institution of, or
during, the proceedings, shall be a priority
claim in ihe same manner as the court costs
and the expenses of Die Federal marshai ",
EEC. 3)33. CO.MPENS.I Tin.N TO l\FOR.'HER&
Section 619 of the Tariff Act of 1930 119
V.S.C. 1619) is amended fo read as follows:
"la> IN GENERAL.—If—
"U) any person who is not an employee or
officer of the United States—
"lA) detects and seizes any fesset vehicle,
aircraft, merchandise, or baggage subject to
seizure and forfeiture under the casJonts
iaujs or the navigation laws and reports such detection ond scisttre to o citstoms officer,
or
"IB) furnishes to a United States attorney,
the Secretary of the Treasury, or any customs
officer original information concerning—
"li) any fraud upon the customs revenue,
or
"Hi) any viotation of the customs laws or
the navigation laws which is being, or has
been, perpetrated or contemplated by any
other person: and
"12) such detection and seizure or such information
leads to a recovery of—
"lAl any duties withheld, or
"IB) any fine, penalty, or forfeiture of
properly incurred;
the Secretary may award ond pay such
person an amount that does not exceed 25
percent of the net amount so recovered
"lb) FORFEITED PROPERTY NOT SOLD.—If—
"(1) anv vessel, vehicle, aircraft, merchandise.
or baggage is forfeited to the Cnited
States and U thereafter, in iiea of sale—
"lA) destroyed under the customs or navigation
laws, or
"IBJ delivered to any governmental
agency for official use, and
"12) any person toouid be eligible to receive
an award under subsection la) but for
the lack of sale of such forfeited property,
the Secretary may award and pay such
person an amount that does not exceed 25
percent of the appraised value of such forfeited
property.
"(c) DOLLAR LIMITATION.—The amount
awarded ond paid to any person under this
section may not exceed $250,000 for any
case.
"Id) 5ot.'FLC£ OF PAYMENT.-Unless otherwise
procided by law, any amount paid
under this section shall be paid out of appropriations
available for the coUeciion of
the customs revenue. 'Ye; RECOVERY OF BAIL BOND.—For purposes
of this section, an amount recovered
under a bail bond shall be deemed a recovery
of a fine incurred.".
SEC use. FI/RELA.F LANOI.SG CERTIFICA TES.
Section 622 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 16221 is omended by inserting before
the period at the end thereof the following:
or to comply with intemattonol obligations".
SEC 3112. EXCHANCE OF l,\FOR,yATION WITH FOREWN
AGENCIES.
Part VoftitU IV of the Tariff Act of 1930
•is amended by adding at the end thereof the
Allowing new section;
"SEC. «& EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION.
"la) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may by
regulation authorize customs officers to exchange
information or documents with foreign
customs and lau; enforcement agencies
if the Secretary reasonably believes the exchange
of information is necessary to—
"111 insure compliance with any law or
regulation enforced or administered by the
Customs Service:
"12) administer or enforce midlilaieral or
bilateral agreements to which the Unit^
States is a parly:
"13) assist in investigative, judicial and
quasi-judicial proceedings in ihe United
States; and
"14) an action comparable to any of those
described in paragraphs U) through 14) ttnderiaken
by a foreign customs or law enforcement
agency, or in relation to a proceeding
in a foreign country.".
"Ibl NONDISCLOSURE AND USES OF INFORMATION
PROVIDED.—
"Ill Information may be provided to foreign
customs and law enforcement agencies
under subsection la) only if ihe Secretary
obtains assurances from such agencies that
such information will be held in co-njidence
and used only for ihe law enforcement purposes
for which such information is provided
to such agencies by the Secretary.
"12) No information may be provided
under subsection la) £o any foreign customs
or law enforcement agency that has violated
any assurances described in pa-ragraph ID,".
SEC. 3I2S. INSPECTIONS AND PREVLBARANCB IN
FOREIGN RIH'NTRIES.
Part V of title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930 is further amended by adding at the end therecit the following new section;
"SEC. SM INSPECTIONS AND PRECLEARASCB IN
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
"la) IN GENERAL.—When authorized by
treaty or executive agreement, the Secretary
may station customs officers in foreign
countries for the purpose of examining persons
and merchandise prior lo their arrival
in the United States.
"lb) FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES.—Customs officers
stationed in a foreign country under
subsection la) may exercise such functions and perform such duties Hncluding inspections,
searches, seizures and arrests) as may
be permitted by the treaty, agreement or law
of the country in which they are stationed.
"to COMPLIANCE.—The Secretary may by
regulation require compliance with the customs
laws of the United States in a foreign
country and, in such a case the customs
laws and other civil and criminal laws of
H11246 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
Hie Vnited Stales Telaling to the importation
oj merehandise, filing of false statements,
and the unlawful removal of merchandise
from customs custody shall apply t>i the stimt manner as if the foreign station
is a port of entry within the customs territory
of the. United States,
'td/ SKIZVRSS.—When authorised by
treaty, agreement or foreign law, merchandise
which is subject to seizure or forfeiture
under United States law may be seized in a
foreign country anti transported under cissiomi
custody to the customs territory to the
United States to be proceeded against under
the customs law.
"let STATIONING OF FOREIGN CVSTOM OFFICERS
IN THE UNITF.D STATES.—The Secretary of
Slate, in coordination with the Secretory,
may enter into agreements with any foreign
country authorizing the stationing in the
United States of customs officials of that
country (if similar privileges are extended
by that country to United Stales officials/
for Che purpose of insuring that persons and
merchandise going directly to that country
from the United States comply with the customs
and other laws of that country governing
the importation of merchandise. Any
foreign customs official stationed in the
United States under this subsection may exercise
such functions and perform such
duties as United Slates o//iciais may be au-
Uiorized to perform in that foreign country
under reciprocal agreement
"(ft ARFUCATION OF CERTAIN LAWS.—When
customs officials of a foreign country are
stationed in the United States in accordance
with subsection lei, and If similar provisions
are applied to United Stales officials
stationed in that country—
"111 sections 111 and 1114 of title IS,
United Slates Code, shall apply as if the officials
were designated in those sections; and
"i2J any person who in any matter before
a foreign customs oj?iciaI stationed in the
United Slates knowingly anrt willfully falsifies,
conceals, or covers up by any trick,
scheme, or device, a matertat fact, or makes
any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements
or representations, or makes or uses
any false icnfin? or document knowing the
same to contain any false, fictitious or
fraudulent statement or entry, is liable for a
fine of not more than tlO.OOO or imprisonment
for not more than S years, or both.
PARTl—USDERCOVER CCSTOMS
OPERATIOSS
SEC. SI3I. VNDERCmER INYESTIGATIVB ONER.
ATKINS HE THE CCSTO-HS SRHILCE.
(a! CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR EKEMPTIO.N
OF UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS FROM CERTAIN
LAWS.—With respect to any undercover investigative
operation of the United Slates
Customs Service (hereinafter in this section
referred to as the "Service"! which is necessary
for the detection and prosecution of offenses
against the United States which ore
within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of
the Treasury-
Ill sums authorized to be appropriated for
the Sen-ice may be used—
lAI to purchase property, buildings, and
other facilities, and to lease space, within
the United States, the Vislrict of Columbia,
and the territories and possessions of the
United Stales without regard to—
HI sections 1341 and 3324 of title 31,
United States Code,
tin sections 3732lal and 3741 of the Revised
Statutes of the UniUd Stales (41
U.S.C. IKal and 221,
(iiil section 305 of the Act of June 30, 1949
(63 Stat. 398: 41 U.S.C. 2551,
tivi the third undesignated paragraph
under the heading "Miscellaneous" of the
Act of March 3, 1877 119 Stat 370: 40 U.S.C.
341. and
(VI section 304lal and (cl of the Federal
Properly and Administrative .Services Act of
1949 (41 U.S.C. 2S4lal and tell, and
IBl to establish or to acquire proprietary
corporations or business entities as part of
the undercover operation, and to operate
such corporations or business entities on a eommerciat basis, without regard to sections
9102 and 9103 of title 31, fnited States
Code:
(2) sums authorized to be appropriated for
the Service and the proceeds from the undercover
operation, may be deposited in banks
or other financial institutions without
regard to the provisions of section 648 of
title 18. United States Code, and section
3302 of title 31, United States Code: and
(31 the proceeds from the undercover operation
may be used to offset necessary and
reasonable expenses incurred in such operation
icithout regard to the provisions of
section 3302 of title 31. United Siotes Code:
only upon the wrillen certification of the
Commissioner of Customs (or, if designated
by the Commissioner the Deputy or an Assistant
Commissioner of Customs! that any
action authorized by paragraph 111, 121, or
<31 of this subsection is necessary for the
conduct of such undercover operation.
(bl LIQUIDATION OF CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESS
ENTITIES.—If a corporation or business
entity established or acquired as part of an
undercover operation under paragraph
(IIIBI of subsection (aJ with a net value
over S50.000 is to be liquidated, sold, or otherwise
disposed of, the Service, as much in
advance as the Commissioner or his designee
determines is practicable, shall report
the circumstances to the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Comptroller General The
proceeds of the liquidation, sale, or other
disposition, after obligations are met, shall
be deposited in the Treasury of the United
Stales OS miscellaneous receipts.
(cl DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS.—As soon as the
proceeds from on undercover investigative
operation with respect to which an action is
authorized and carried out under paragraphs
121 and (31 of subsection ta) are no
longer necessary for the conduct of such operation,
such proceeds or the botonce of such proceeds remaining at the time shall be deposited
into the Treasury of the United
Stales as miscellaneous receipts.
Id! AUDITS.—(II The Service shall conduct
a defoited financial audit of each undercover
investigative operation uihtch is closed in
each fiscal year, and
lAl submit the results of the audit in writing
to the Secretory of the rreosury,- and
(Bl not later than 180 days after such undercover
operation is cioscd, submit a report
to the Congress concerning such audit
121 The Service shall also submit a report
annually to the Congress specifying as to its
undercover investigative operations—
lAI the number, by programs, of undercover
investigative operations pending as of the
end of the 1-year period for which such
report is submitted:
(Bl the number, by programs, of undercover
investigative operations commenced in
the 1-year period preceding the period for
which such report is submitted: and
(d the number, by programs, of undercover
investigative operations closed in the 1-
year period preceding the period for which
such report is submitted and, with respect to
each such closed undercover operation, the
results obtained and any civil claims made
with respect thereto.
(el DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of subsection
(dill!
The term "closed" refers to the earliest
point in lime at which—
(A! all criminal proceedings (other than
appeals! are concluded, or
IB' covert activities are concluded, ifhichever
occurs later.
(21 The term "employees" means employees.
as defined in section 2105 of title S of
the United States Code, of the Service.
(31 The terms "undercover investigative
operation" and "undercover operation"
mean any undercover investigative operation
of the Service—
(A! in which—
til the gross receipts (excluding interest
earned! exceed $50,000, or
Iiil expenditures (other than expenditures
for salaries of employees! exceed $150,000:
and
IB! which is exempt from section 3302 or
9102 of title 31, United States Code;
except that subparagraphs lAI and IBI shall
not apply with respect to the report required
under paragraph I2i of subsection Idl.
PA RT 3—CrSTO.ilS SER VICE
A VTUimiZA TIO.XS A SO FORFEITURE FVKD
SEC, 1141. AfTHIIRIZ.ATIOS OF APPROPRIATIIISS
FOR FISCAL FEAR l»S7 FOR THE
UNITED STATES CL'STO,tlSSERVICE,
la! XtTTWOR/zsnoA'S-—Section 301(bl of the
Customs Proceduroi Reform and Simplification
Act of 197S 119 U.S.C. 207S(bll is
amended as follows:
"(bill! There ore authorized to be appropriated
to the Department of the Treasury
not to exceed $1,001,180,000 for the salaries
and expenses of the Vnited States Customs
Service for fiscal year 1987: of which—
"(A! $749,131,000 is for salaries and expenses
to maintain current operating levels. and includes such sums as may be necessary
to complete the testing of the prototype of
the automatic license plate reader program and to fmptement that program,-
"(B) $80,999,000 is for the salaries and expenses
of additional personnel to be used in
carrying out drug enforcement activities;
and
"(C! $171,050,000 is for the operation ond
maintenance of the air interdiction program
of the Service, of which—
"HI $93,500,000 is for additional aircraft,
communications enhancements, and command,
control, communications, and intelligence
centers, and
"(HI $350,000 is for a feasibility and application
study for a low-level radar detection
system in collaboration with the Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
"(21 No part of any sum that is appropriated
under the authority of paragraph (It
may be used to close any port of entry at
ichich, during fiscal year 1988—
"lAi not less than 2,500 merchandise entries
rincluding informal entries! were
made: and
"(Bl not less than $1,500,000 in customs
revenues were assessed.".
(b! SPECIAL EFFECTIVE DATE Rvis.-If the
bill H.R. 5300 (providing for reconciliation
of the budget for fiscal year 1987! is enacted
and includes an amendment to section
301(bl of the Customs Procedural Reform
and Simplification Act of 1978 loftich is
identical to the amendment made by subsection
(a! of this section, then the amendment
made by subsection (al shall have no effect
SEC. SI42. (TSTOMS FORFEITURE FUND,
(al i^MiWDs/rAT.—Section 813a of the Tariff
Act of 1930 119 U.S.C. ISlSbl is amended—
(II by amending subsection (al—
(Al by striking out "1987"in the/irstsentence
and inserting "1991":
(B! by inserting "(including investigative
costs leading to seizures!" after "seizure" in
paragraph (II:
(Cl by inserting "and" after the semicolon
at the end of paragraph (41:
(Dl by striking out paragraph (SI:
October 17. 1986
(El by redesignating paragraph (SI as
paragraph (SK and
(Ft by amending the last sentence to read
as follows:
"Jn addition to the purposes described in
paragraphs (I) through (SI, the fund is
available for—
'•(V purchases by the Customs Service of
evidence of—
'•(II smuggling of controlled substances,
and
"(III violations of the currency and foreign
transaction reporting requirements of
chapter SI of title 31. United Stales Code, if
there is a substantial probability that the
violations of these requirements are related
to the smuggling of controlled substances:
"(HI the equipping for law enforcement
functions of any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft
available for official use by the Customs
Service:
"(iiil the reimbursement, at the discretion
of the Secretary, of prixate citizens for expenses
incurred by them in cooperating with
the Customs Service in investigations and
undercover law enforcement operations; and
"(ivi the publicizing of the availability of
rewards under section 613.": and
(21 by amending subsection (f! to read as
follows:
"(fKH There are authorized to be appropriated
from the fund for each of the fiscal
years beginning itiith fiscal year 1987 not
more than S20.000.000.
"(21 At the end of each of fiscal years 1987.
1988. 1989, and 1990, any amount in the
fund in excess of $20,000,000 shall be deposited
in the general fund of the Treasury. At
the end of fiscal year 1991. any amount remaining
in the fund shall be deposited in
the general fund of the Treasury, and the
fund shall cease lo exist.
(bi EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments
made by subsection (al shall take effect October
1.1986.
PART 4—MISCELLASEOVS CVSTOMS
AMESDHESTS
SEC. list. RBCREATIOSAL VESSELS.
Section 12I09(bl of title 46, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following: "Such vessel must, however,
comply with all customs reqtnrements for reporting
arrival under section 433 of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 14331 and all
persons aboard such a pleasure vessel shall
be subject to all applicable customs regulations.
SEC. SISL. ASS/STA.VCE FOR CI S7VMS OFFICERS.
Section 3071 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States (19 U.S.C. 5071 is amended to
read as follows:
"SEC. 3071. (al Every customs officer
shall—
"(II upon being questioned al the time of
executing any of the powers conferred upon
him, make known his character as an officer
of the Federal Government: and
"(21 have the authority to demand the assistance
of any person in making any arrest,
search, or seizure authorized by any law enforced
or administered by customs officers,
if such assistance may be necessary.
If a person, without reasonable excuse, neglects
or refuses to assist a customs officer
upon proper demand under paragraph (21,
such person is guilty of a misdemeanor and
subject to a fine of not more than $1,000.
"(bl Any person other than on officer or
employee of the United States who renders
assistance in good faith upon the request of
a customs officer shall not be held liable for
any civil damages as a result of the rendering
of sucft assistance if the assisting person
acts as an ordinary, reasonably prudent
person would have acted under the same or
similar circumstances.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11247
.1EC. 3IS3. REIHRTS n.\ EXPORTS AXD IMPORTS OF
MOEETARV tSSTRl .ME.VTS.
Section 5316(al(2l of title 31. United
States Code, is amended by striking out
"$5,000" and inserting in lieu thereof
"$10,000".
PART S—AME,\DMESTS TO THE CO.YTROLLED
SUBSTANCES IMPOHT AND EXPORT A CT
SEC. 3ISI. POSSESSION MA.M.FACTIRE. OR DtSTRIHVTIO.
S FOR PIRPOSKS OF VNUWFLL
IMPORTATION
(al AiMESDWEMT TO AcT.—Section 1009 of
the Controlled Substances Import and
ExportAct (21 U.S.C. 9591 is amended-
(1) by inserting "POSSESSION," in the heading:
(21 by striking out "It shall" and inserting
in lieu thereof "(ai It shall";
(31 by striking out "This section" and inserting
in lieu thereof "(cl This section";
(41 by inserting "or into waters within a
distance of 12 miles of the coast of the
United States" after "United States" each
place it appears in subsection (al; and
(SI inserting after subsection <al the following
new subsection:
"(bl It shall be unlawful for any United
States citizen on board any aircraft, or any
person on board an aircraft owned by a
United States citizen or restsiered in the
United States, to—
"111 manufacture or distribute a controlled
substance: or
"(21 possess a controlled substance with
intent to distribute.
(bl CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of
contents of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse
Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is
amended by striking out "Manufacture" in
the item relating to section 1009 and inserting
in lieu thereof "Possession, manufacture".
Subtitle C—Maritime Drug taie Enforcement
Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986
.SEC. 3201. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Marltime
Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution
Improvements Act of 1986".
SEC. 3203. IMPROVEMENT OF PIBI.IV LA W
The Act entitled "An Act to facilitate increased
enforcement by the Coast Guard of
laws relating to the importation of controlled
substances, and for other purposes",
approved September IS. 1980 iPublic Law
96-350: 94 Stat 1159! is amended by striking
all after the enacting clause and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: "That this Act
may be cited as the 'Maritime Drug Law Enforcement
Act'.
"SEC. 2. The Congress finds and declares
that trafficking in controlled substances
aboard vessels is a serious international
problem and is universally condemned.
Moreover, such trafficking presents a specific
threat to the security and societal wellbeing
of the United States.
"SEC. 3. (a! It is unlawful for any person
on board a vessel of the United States, or on
board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States, to knowingly or intentionally
manufacture or distribute, or to
possess with intent to manufacture or distribute.
a controlled substance.
"(bl For purposes of this section, a 'vessel
of the United States' means—
"(II a vessel documented under chapter
121 of title 46. United States Cade, or a
vessel numbered as provided in chapter 123
of that title:
"(2! a vessel owned in whole or part by
"(Al the United Slates or a territory, commonwealtK
or possession of the United
States:
"(Bl a State or potificat subdivision thereof;
"(CI a citizen or national of the United
States: or
"(Dl a corporation created under the laws
of the United Slates or any State, the District
of Cotumbia, or any tcrrilory. commonwealth.
or possession of the United 5totes/
untess the vessel has been granted the nationality
of a foreign nation in accordance
with article 5 of the 1958 Convention on the
High Seas: and
"(31 a vessel that was once documented
under the laws of the United States and, in
violation of the laws of the United Slates,
was either sold to a person not a citizen of
the United Slates or placed under foreign
registry or a foreign flag, whether or not the
vessel has been granted the nationality of a
foreign nation.
"Icllll For purposes of this section, a
'vessel subject lo the furisdiclion of the
United States' includes—
"(Al a vessel without nationality:
"(B) a vessel assimilated to a vessel without
nationality, in accordance with paragraph
(2) of article 6 of the 1958 Convention
on the High Seas:
"(CI a vessel registered in a foreign nation
where the flag nation has consented or
waived objection to the enforcement of
United States law by the United Stales:
"IDI a vessel located within the customs
waters of the United States: and
"(El a vessel located in the territorial
waters of another nation, where the nation
consents to the enforcement of United Stales
law by the United States.
Consent or waiver of objection by a foreign
nation to the enforcement of United Stales
law by the United Slates under paragraph
(Cl or lEI of this paragraph may be obtained
by radio, telephone, or simitar oral or
electronic means, and may be proued by certification
of the Secretory of State or the
Secretary's designee.
"(21 For purposes of this section, a 'vessel
without nationality' includes—
"lAl a vessel aboard which the master or
person in charge makes a claim of registry,
which claim is denied by the flag nation
whose registry is claimed: and
"(Bl any vessel aboard which the master
or person in charye/ails. upon request of an
officer of the United States empowered lo
enforce appficobte provisions of United
States taw. to make a claim of nationality
or registry for thai vessel
A claim of registry under subparagraph (A)
may be verified or denied by radio, telephone,
or similar oral or electronic means.
The denial of such claim of registry by the
claimed flag nation may be proved by certification
of the Secretary of State or the Secretary's
designee.
"(31 For purposes of this section, a claim
of nationality or registry only includes:
"(Al possession on board the vessel and
production of documents evidencing the vessel's
nationality in accordance with article
5 of the 1958 Convention on the High Seas;
"(B) flying its flag nation's ensign or flag;
or
"(Cl a verbal claim of nationality or registry
by the master or person in charge of the
vessel.
"(d) A claim of failure to comply with
international law in the enforcement of this
Act may be invoked solely by a foreign state,
and a failure to comply with international
law shall not divest a court of jurisdiction
or otherwise constitute a defense lo any proceeding
under this Act
"(el This section does not apply to a
common or contract carrier, or an employee
thereof, who possesses or distributes a contmlled
substance in the lawful and usual
course of the carrier's business or to a public
vessel of the United States, or any person on
board suck a vessel who possesses or distribH
11248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17, 1986
ules a controlled substance in the lawful
course of such person's duties, if the controlled
substance is a part of the cargo entered
in the vessel's manifest and is intended
to be lawfully imported into the country
of destination for scientific, medical or
other le0timate purposes. It shall not be
necessary for the United States to negative
the exception set forth in this subsection in
any complaint, information, indictment, or
other pleading or in any trial or other proceeding.
The burden of going forward with
the evidence with respect to this exception is
upon the person claiming its benefit
"If) Any person who violates this section
shall be tried in the United States district
court at the point of entry where that person
enters the United Stales, or in the United
States Dislrict Court of the District of Columbia.
"igllD Any person who commits an offense
defined in this section shall be punished
in accordance with the penalties set
forth in section 1610 of the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention ond Control Act of
1970 121 V.S.C. 9601.
"I2t Notwithstanding paragraph 11) of
this subsection, any person convicted of an
offense under this Act shall be punished in
accordance with the penalties set forth in
section 1012 of the Comprehensive Drug
Atruse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
121 U.S. C. 962) if sucft offense is a second or
subsequent offense as defined in section
10!2(blof thai Act.
"ihJ This section is intended to reach acts
of possession, manufacture, or distribution
committed outside the territorial jurisdiction
of the United Slates.
"HI The definitions in the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of
1970 121 U.S.C, S02> apply to terms used in
this Act
"Ij) Any person who attempts or conspires
to commit any offense defined in this Act is
punishable by imprisonment or fine, or
both, which may not exceed the maximum
punishment prescribed for the offense, the
commission of which was the object of the
attempt or conspiracy.
"SEC. 3. Any properly described in section
511(a) of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse
Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21
U.S.C. 881(a)) that is used or intended for
use to commit, or to facilitate the commission
of. an offense under this Act shall be
subject to seizure and forfeiture in the same
manner as similar property seized or forfeited
under section SIl of the Comprehensive
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of
1970 (21 U.S.C. 881).".
Subtitle D—Cnast Guard
SEC. SUI. COAST qVARO ORVG ISTERDICTIOS EN.
HASCEMEST.
(a) ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE
COAST OVARD.—
(1) There are outhorised to be appropri.
ated for Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements
of the Coast Guard, 889,000,000.
(2) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated
for Operating Expenses of the
Coast Guard. 839.000,000. This amount shall
be used to increase the full-time equivalent
strength level for the Coast Guard for active
duty personnel for fiscal year 1987 to 39,220,
and to increase the utilization rate of Coast
Guard equipment
(b) ANOVNTS m /tDDTTION TO OTHER
AuovN7S.—The amounts authorized to be appropriated
for the Coast Guard by this section
are in addition to any amounts otherwise
authorized by law.
(c> AUTHORIZATION ENHANCEXENT.—Nothing
in this Act shall require Ike Coast Guard to
recruit compensate, train, purchase, or
deploy any personnel or equipment except to
the extent thof—
(1) additional appropriations are made
available in appropriations Acts for that
purpose; or
(2) .funds are transferred to the Secretary
of Transportation for Chat purpose pursuant
to this Act.
Subtitle E—Vaited Slates-Bahamas Drag
InterdicUon Task Forte
SEC SSbl. ESTADUSHME.Vr OF A VSITED STATES-BAHA.
HAS ORVG INTERDICTION TASK
FORCE
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) ESTABUSHMENT OF A UNITED STATES-BAHAAtSS
DRUA INTERDICTION TASK FORCE.—( A )
There is auihorized to be established a
United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction
Task Force to be operated jointly by the
United Stoics Government and the Government
of the Bahamas,
(B) The Secretary of Slate, the Commandant
of the Coast Guard, the Commissioner
of Customs, the Attorney General, and the
head of the Natxonai Narcotics Border Interdiction
System 'NNBIS), shall upon enactment
of this Act, immediately commence negotiations
with the Government of the Bahamas
to enter into a detailed agreement for
the establishment and operation of a new
drug interdiction task force, including plans
for (i) the joint operation and maintenance
of any drug interdiction assets authorized
for the task force in this section and section
3141, and Hi) any training and personnel
enhancements authorized in this section
and section 3141.
(CI The Attorney General shall report to
the appropriate commillees of Congress on a
quarterly basis regarding the progress of the
United Slates-Bahamas Drug Interdiction
Task Force.
(2) AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED.—There are authorized
to be appropriated, in addition to
any other amounts auihorized to be appropriated
in this title, 810.000,000 for the fCAlowing:
(A) 89.000,000 for 3 drug interdiction pursuit
helicopters for use primarily for operations
of the United States-Bahamas Drug
Interdiction Task Force established under
this section: and
(B! 81.000.000 to enhance communications
capabilities for the operation of a United
States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Tdsk
Force established under this section.
(3) COAST OUARD-BAHAMAS DRUG INTERDICTION
DOCKINQ FACIUTV.—(A' There is authorized
to be appropriated for acquisition, construction.
and improvements for the Coast
Guard for fiscal year 1987, 85,000.000, to be
used for initial design engineering, and
other activities for construction of a drug
Interdiction docking facility in the Bohamos
to facilitate Coast Guard and Bahamian
drug interdiction operations in and
through the Bahama Islands. Of the
amounts authorized to be appropriated in
this subsection, such sums as may be necessary
shall be available for necessary communication
and air support
(B) The Commandant of the Coast (Suard
shall use such amounts appropriated pursuant
to the authorization in this paragraph
as may be necessary to establish a repair,
maintenance, and boat lift facility to provide
repair and maintenance services for
both Coast Guard and Bahamian marine
drug interdiction equipment, twssels, and related
assets.
(b) CONCURRENCE BY SECRETARY OF STATE.—
ProflTorrw oathorteed by this section may be
carried out only with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State.
Sablilli- F-CoiBmaad, Cmlrol, CommaitlcaliiMA.
and Intelligence Centers
SEC. sru. ESTABI.ISHMENT OF COMMAND. (VNTROl.
COM.mNICATIONS. A,\D INTEI.DORNCE
CENTERS iC-m
There arc auihorized to be appropriated
825,000.000 to the United States Customs
Service for the estabtishment of command,
control, communications, and intelligence
<C-31) centers, including sector operations
centers and a national command, control,
communications, and intelligence iC-311
center, in locations within the United
States. The coordination of the establishment
and location of such C-3I centers shall
be conducted by the Commissioner of Customs:
to gelher with the Commandant of the
Coast Guard; the Attorney General of the
United Stales: and the National Narcotics
Border Interdiction System INNBIS).
Suhlille G—Tmasportation Safely
SEC. SISI. AIR SAFErr.
(a)(1) Section 902(b) of the Federal Aviation
Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. App. 1472tb)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
"(3) Nothing in this subsection or in any
other provision of this Act shall preclude a
State from establishing criminal penalties,
including providing for forfeiture or seizure
of aircraft, for a person who—
"(A) knowingly and willfully forges, counterfeits.
alters, or falsely makes an aircraft
registration certificate;
"(B) knowingly sells, uses, attempts to use.
or possesses with intent to use a fraudulent
aircraft registration certificate;
"(C) knowingly and willfully displays or
causes la be displayed on any aircraft any
marks that are false or misleadiiS as to the
nationality or regi.stration of the aircraft; or
"(D> obtains an aircraft registration certificate
from the administrator by knowingly
and willfully falsifying, concealing or
eoperiny up a material fact, or moAring a
false, ficHlicus, or fraudulent statement or
representation, or making or using any false
writing or document knowing the writing or
document to contain any false, fictiticus. or
fraudulent statement or entry.".
12) Section SOI of the Federal Aviation
Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. ApTL 1401) U amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection;
"INSPECTION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
"(g) The operator of an aircraft shall make
available for inspection an aircraft's certificate
of registration upon request by a Federal
State, or local law enforcement officer.".
(31 That portion of the table of contents
contained in the first section of the Federal
Aviation Act of 1958 which appears under
the side heading
"Sec. 501. Registration of aircraft nationality."
is amended by adding at the end the following:
"(g) Inspection by law enforcement officers.
fbl(I) Subsection Iq) of section 902 of the
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C.
I472(q)) is amended to read as follows:
"VIOLATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH
TRANSPORTATION OP CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
"(qld) It shall be unlawful, in connection
with an act described in paragraph (21 and
with knowledge of such act, for any person—
"(A) who is the owner of an aircraft eligible
for registration under section 501, to
knowingly and willfully operate, attempt to
operate, or permit any other person to operate
such aircraft if the aircraft is not registered
under section 501 or the certificate of
registration of the aircraft is suspended or
revoked, or if such person does not have
proper authorization to operate or navigate
October 17. 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11249
the aircraft without registration for a
period of time after transfer of ownership:
"tBJ to operate or attempt to operate an
aircraft eligible for registration under section
$01 knowing that such aircraft is not
registered under section SOI, that the certificate
of registration is suspended or revoked,
or that such person does not have proper authorisation
to operate or navigate the aircraft
without registration for a period of
lime after transfer of ownership:
"ICJ to knowingly and willfully serve, or
attempt la serve, in any capacity as an
airman without a valid airman certificate
authorising such person to serve in such a
capacity:
"ID) to knowingly and willfully employ for
service or utilise any airman who does not
possess o valid airman certificate authorising
such person to serve in such capacity;
"IE) to knowingly and willfully operate an
aircraft in violation of any rule, regulation,
or requirement issued by the Administrator
of the Federal /4wation Administration with
res7>ect to the display of navigation or anticollision
lights; and
"IF) to knowingly operate an aircraft with
a fuel lank or fuel system that has been installed
or modified on the aircraft, unless
such tank or system and Die installation or
modification of such tank or system is in accordance
with all applicable rules, regulations,
and requirements of the Administrator.
"I2> The act referred to in paragraph II) is
the transportation by airc^l of any controlled
substance or the aiding or facilitating
of a controlled substance offense where
such act is punishable by death or imprisonment
for a term eiceedins one year under a
State or Federal law or is provided in connection
with any act that is punishable by
deaJh or imprisonment for a term exceeding
one year under a State or Federal law relating
to a controlled substance lather than a
law relating to simple possession of a controlled
substance).
"13) A person violating this subsection
shall be subject to a fine noi eicceeding
t25.000. or imprisonment not exceeding 5
years, or both.
"14) A person who. in connection with
transportation described in paragraph 12),
operates an aircraft on which a fuel tank or
fuel system has been installed or modified
and does not carry aboarti the aircraft any
certificate required to be issued by the Administrator
for such installation or modification
shall be presumed to have violated
subparagraph IP) of paragraph II).
"15) In the case of o violation of subparagraph
IF) of jjarcsrapft II). the fuel lank or
fuel system and the aircraft involved shall
be subject to seizure and forfeiture. The provisions
of law relating to—
"lA) the seizure, summary and Judicial
forfeiture, and condemnation of property for
violation of the customs laws;
"IB) the disposition of such property or
the proceeds from the sale thereof;
"lO the remission or mitigation of such
forfeitures; and
"ID) the compromise of claims and the
award of compensation to informers in respect
of such forfeitures;
shall apply to seizures and forfeitures under
this paragraph. The Secretary may authorize
such officers and agents as are necessary
to carry out seizures and forfeitures under
this paragraph and such officers and agents
shall have the powers and duties given to
customs officers with respect to the seizure
and forfeiture of property under the customs
laws.
"16) For purposes of this subsection, the
term 'controlled substance' has the meaning
given to such term by section 102 of the Controlled
Substances Act 121 U.S.C. 802).".
12) That portion of the table of contents of
the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 which appears
under the side heading
"Sec. 902. Criminal penalties."
is amended by striking the item relating to
subsection iq) and inserting the following:
"Iqj Violations in connection with transportation
of controlled substances.
to Section 904fa) of the Federal Aviation
Act of I9S8 149 U.S.C. 14741a)) is amended
"(1) by striking "SSOO" each place it appears
and inserting in lieu thereof "$5,009";
12) by inserting after the second sentence
the following: "In addition to any other penalty.
if any controlled substance describ^
in section 584 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1584) is found on board of. or to have
been unladen from, on aircraft subject to
section 11091b) and Ic) of this Act, the owner
or person in charge of such aircraff shall be
subject to the penalties provided for in section
584 of the Tariff Act of 1930 tI9 U.S.C.
1584), unless such owner or person is able to
demonstrate, by o preponderance of the evidenced,
ttiat such owner or person did not
know, and could not. by the exercise of the
highest degree of care and diligence, have
known, that any such controlled substance
was on board."; and
13) by amending the third sentence to read
as follows: "In the case the violation is by
the owner, operator, or person in command
of the aircraft, any penally imposed by this
section shall be a Hen against the aircraft".
ld)II) Section 1109 of the Federal Aviation
Act of 1958 (49 App. U.S.C. 1509) is amended
by adding at the end thereof the following:
"REPORTING TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP
"If) Any person having on ownership interest
in any aircraft for which a certificate
of registration has been issued under this
Act shall, upon the sale, conditional sale,
transfer, or conveyance of such ownership
interest file with the Secretary of the Treasury
within 15 days after such sale, conditional
sale, transfer or conveyance such
notice as the Secretary of the Treasury may
by regulation require. The filing of a notice
under this subsection shall not relieve any
person from the filing requirements under
section 501 or 503 of this Act".
12) Within 30 days after the date of enactment
of subsection if) of section 1109 of the
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 as added by
this subsection, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall promulgate regulations establishing
guidelines by which persons or classes of
persons may apply for exemptions from the
filing requirements of subsection tf) of section
1109. The Secretary of the Treasiiry
may exempt such persons or classes of persons
pursuant to such regulations.
13) That portion of the table of contents of
the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 which appears
under the side heading
"Sec. 1109. Application of existing laws relating
to foreign commerce."
Is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following:
"tf) Reporting transfer of ownersftip.
SEC. SMl. DRVG AND HIGHWA Y SAFETY.
(a) SrvDY.—The Secretary of Transportation
shall conduct a study to determine the
relationship between the usage of controlled
substances and highway safety. Such study
shall include a simutation of driving conditions,
emergency situations, and driver performance
under uarious drug and dosage
conditions. Such study shall determine the
incidence of controlled substance usage in
highway Occidents resultng in fatalities ond
the dosage levels for controlled substances
which are most likely to result in impairment
of driver performance.
tb) REPORT.—Not later than one year after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Transportation shall submit to
Congress a report on the results of the study
conducted under subsection ta).
SEC. jm. S4 yi.xGS PRDMSIOX
In any proceeding under section 11344 of
lute 49, United Stales Code, involving an
application by a rail carrier tor a person
controlled by or affiliated with a rail carrier)
to acquire a motor carrier, the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and any Federal
court reviewing aclion of the Commission,
shall follow the standards set forth in the
Commission decision in Ex Parte No. 438 if
the applicant rail carrier, between July 20,
1984, and September 30, 1986 II) filed an application
with the Commission to ocfluire a
motor carrier, 12) entered into a contract or
signed a letter of intent to acquire a motor
carrier, or 13) made a public tender offer to
acquire a motor carrier.
Sabtitte H—Department ol Justice Funds for Drug
Interdiction Operations in Haaail
SEC. 1421. ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE
There are authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Justice for fiscal year
1987, in addition to any other amounts auttiorised
to be appropriated to the Department
for such Ascal year, $7,000,000 for helicopters
with forward looking infrared radiation
defection deuices for drug interdiction
operations in Hawaii.
Subtitle t—Federal Communleatiem Commission
SEC. 34SI. COMMI'NICATIO.NS.
The Federal Communications Commission
may revoke any private operator's license
issued to any person under the Communications
Act of 1934 147 U.S.C. 151 el seq.) who
is found to have willfully used said license
for the purpose of distributing, or assisting
in the distribution of, any controlled substance
in violation of any provision of Federal
law. In addition, the federoi Communications
Commission may. upon the request
of on appropriote Federal law enforcement
agency, assist in the enforcement of Federal
law prohibiting the use or distribution of
any controlled substance where communications
equipment within the jurisdiction of
the Federal Communications Commission
under the Communications Act of 1934 is
willfully being used for purposes of distributing,
or assisting in the distribution of,
any such substance.
TITLE IV—DEMAND REDUCTION
Subtitle A—Trealmenl and Rehabilitation
SEC. 4MI. SHORT TITLE: REFERE.NCE.
la) This subtitle may be cited as the "Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Amendments of 1986".
lb) Except as otherwise specifically propfded,
wtieneuer in ttiis subtitle an amendment
or repeal is expressed in terms of an
amendment to a section or other provision,
the reference shall be considered to be a reference
to a section or other provision of the
Public Health Service Act
SEC. mz. SPECIAL ALCOHOL ABVSE A.ND DRCG
ABUSE PROGRAMS.
Title XIX is amended by inserting after
section 1920A the following new sections:
PART C—EMERGE.\CV SUBSTANCE ABUSE
TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION
"SPECIAL AIA.OTMSNTS TO STATES FOR ALCOHOL
ABUSE AND DBVG ABUSE TREATMENT AND REHASIUTATION
PROGRAMS
"SEC. 1921. ( a ) T o c a r r y out this section
and sections 1922, 1923, 508. and S09A there
are authorized to be appropriated
$241,000,000 for fiscal year 1987. Of the total
amount appropriated under the preceding
sentence for fiscal year 1987, 6 percent shall
be added to and included with the amounts
H 11250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
othertDise available under Uixs part for allotments
to States under section 2913 for such
/isca, year. 70.5 percent shall be available
for allotments to States under this section
for such fiscal year. 4.5 percent shall be
available for transfer to the Administrator
of Vefpraiii' Affairs under section 1922 for
such fiscal year, 1 percent shall be available
to carry out section 1923 for such fiscal
year, and 1$ percent shall be available to
carry out sections SOS and 5094 for such
fiscal year.
"(bull The allotment of a State under this
section for a fiscal year shall be the sum of
the amounts allotted to such State under
paragraphs '21 and (3*.
"<2) Forty-five percent of the amount
available for allotment under (Ais section
for a fiscal year shall be allotted in accordance
with this paragraph. The allotment of
a Stale under this paragraph for a fiscal
year shall be an amount which bears the
same ratio to the total amount required pursuant
to the preceding sentence to be allotted
under this paragraph for such fiscal year
as the population of such State bears to the
population of all States, except that no such
allotment shall be less than $50,000.
"I3J Fifty-five percent of the amount ovoitable
for aUotment under this section for a
fiscal year shall be allotted by the Secretary
to Stales on the basis of the need of each
Stale for amounts for programs and activities
for the treatment and rehabilitation of
the alcohol abuse and drug abuse In determining
such need for each Stale under this
paragraph, the Secretaxy shall consider—
"(A) the nature and extent, in the State
and in particutar orens of the State, of the
demand for effective programs and activities
for the treatment and rehabilitation of
alcohol abuse and drug abuse;
"IB) the number of individuals in the
Slate who abuse alcohol or drugs and the capacity
of the State to provide treatment and
rehabilitation for such individuals las determined
by the Secretary on the basis of the
number of individuals who requested treatment
for alcohol abuse and drug abuse in
the State during the TTIOSI recent calendar
year ending prior to the date on which a
statement is submitted by the State under
subsection id);
"ICJ the ability of the State to provide additwnat
sercloes/or the treatment and rehabilitation
of alcohol abuse and drug abuse.
"14) The Secretary shall make allotments
to States under paragraph 12) for fiscal year
7997. and shall make payments to States
under subsection Ic) from such allotments,
at the same time that the Secretary makes
allotments and payments under sections
1913 and 1914, respectively, for such fiscal
year.
"(c)(1) For each fiscal year, the Secretory
shall make payments, as provided by section
SS03 of title 31, United States Code, to each
State from its allotment under paragraphs
12) and 13) of subsection lb) from amounts
which are appropriated for that fiscal year
and available for such allolmenls.
"121 Any amount paid to a State under
paragraph U) for a fiscal year and remaining
unobligated at the end of such fiscal
year shall remain available to suck State for
the purposes for which it was made for the
next fiscal year.
"13) A State may not use amounts paid to
it under its allotment under this section to—
"(A) proxtide inpatient hospital services.
"IB) make cash payments to intended recipients
of health services,
"lO purchase or improve land, purchase,
construct, or permanently improve lother
than minor remodeling) any building or
other facility, or purcAose major medical
equipment.
"ini satisfy any requirement for the expenditure
of non-Federal funds as a conditionforlhe
receipt of Federal funds, or
"(E) provide finaticial assistance to any
entity other than a public or nonprofit private
entity,
"14) The provisions of part B which are
not inconsistent with this part shall apply
with respect to allotments made under this
section.
"Id) In order to receive an allotment for a
fiscal year under subsection lb), each State
shall include with the application submitted
to the Secretary under section 1918 a separate
statement requesting an allotment
under this section. Each such staternent
shall contain—
"ID such information as the Secretary
may prescribe, including information necessary
for the Secretary to consider the matters
specified in subparagraphs (A) through
ID) of subsection (b)i3);
"12) a description of the manner in which
programs and activities conducted with
payments under subsection ic) will be co-
OTdinated with other public and private programs
and activities directed toward individuals
who abuse alcohol and drugs;
"13) ossurances tAat, in tAe preparation of
any statement under this section, the State
will consult with local governments and
public and private entities, including community
based organUations, involved in the
provision of services for the treatment and
rehabilitation of alcohol abuse and drug
abuse;
"14) a description of the manner in which
the State will evaluate programs and activities
conducted loitA payments made to the
Stote under subsection to) and assurances
that the State will report periodically to the
Secretary cm the results of such evaluations;
and
"15) assurances that payments made to the
State under subsection (c) will supplement
and not supplant any State or local expenditures
for the treatment and rehabilitation of
alcohol abuse and drug abuse that tooutd
Aai>e been made in the absence of such payments.
"le) Except as provided in subsections If)
and li), amounts paid to a State under subsection
Ic) may be used by the State for alcohol
abuse and drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation
programs and activities, ineluding—
"ID activities to increase the availability
and outreach of programs provided by
major treatment centers and regional
branches of such centers which provide services
in a State in order to reach the greatest
number of people;
"12) activities to expand the capacity of
aicoAot abuse and drug abuse treatment and
reAabititotion programs and facilities to
provide treatment and rehabilitation services
for alcohol abusers and drug abusers
who have been refused ireatment due to lack
a7/aei2ities or personnel; and
"13) activities to provide access to vocational
training, job counseling, and education
equivalency programs to alco^ abusers
and drug abusers in need of such services
in order to enable such abusers to become
productive members a/society.
"If) Of the total amount paid to any State
under subsection (cJ for a fiscal year, not
more than 2 percent may be used for administering
the funds made available under
such subsection. The Slate will pay from
non-Federal sources the remaining costs of
administering such funds.
"Ig) The Secretary may provide training
and technical assistance to States in planning
and ojierating activities to be carried
out under this section.
October 17, 198t>
"Ih) The Secretary may conduct data collection
activities to enable the Secretory to
carry out tAis section.
"TRANSFER TO THE ADKINJSTRATOR OF
VETERANS' AFFAMS
"SEC. 1922. The Secretary shall transfer to
the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs the
amount loAicA, under the second sentence of
section 19211a), is available for such transfer.
The amount transferred pursuant to the
preceding sentence shall be used for outpatient
treatment, rehabUitalion, and counseling
under section 612 of title 38. United
States Code, of veterans for thexr alcohol or
drug abuse dependence or abuse disabilities
and for contract care and services under section
620A of such title for veterans for such
disabilities.
"TREATMENT PROORAM rVAC.tM770JVS
"SEC. 1923. One percent of the ti. id
amount appropriated under section 192lla>
for any fiscal year shall be used by the Secretary.
acting through the Administrator of
the Alcohol. Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, to develop and evaluate alcohol
and drug abuse treatment programs to
determine the most effective forms of treatment
Such programs may be developed and
evaluated through grants, contracts, and cooperative
agreements provided to nonprc^t
private entities. In carrying out this section,
the Secretary shall assess the compamtive
effectiveness of various treatment forms for
specific patient groups.".
SEC4S0S. TECHNICAL REVISION OF ADAMHA.
Section 501 (42 U.C.S, 290aa) is amended
to read as follows;
"ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION
SEC. 501. la) The 4tcoAot Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration is an apency
tAe Service.
"lb) The following entities are agencies of
the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administratioru
"ID The National institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism.
"(2) The National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
"131 The National Institute of Afentat
HealtK
"lc)ID The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration shall tie
headed by on Administrator (hereinafter in
this title referred to as the 'Administrator')
who shall be appointed by the President by
an icitA the advice and consent of the
Senate.
(2) The Administrator with the approval
of the Secretary, may appoint o Oeputy Administrator
and may employ and prescribe
the functions of suoA officers and employees,
including attorneys, as are necessary to administer
the activities to be carried out
tAroupA tAe 4dmintstration,
"Id) The Secretary, acting through the Administrator—
"ID shall supervise the functions of the
agencies of the Administration in order to
assure that the programs carried out
through each sucA apency recici>e appropriate
and equitable support and that there is
cooperation among the agencies in the implementation
of such programs;
"12) shall assure that research at or supported
by the Administration and each of its
agencies is subject to review in occontance
with section 507 and is in compliance with
section 5094; and
"t3J shall assure that research on neuronal
receptors and their role in mental health
and substance abuse is provided adequate
support.
"(e)iD There shall be in the Administration
an Associate Administrator for Prevention
to whom the Administrator shaa deleOctober
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gate the function of promoting the prevention
research programs of the National Institute
of Mental Health, the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoho^sm, and
the National Institute on Drug Abuse and
coordinating such programs betuteen the Institutes
and between the institutes and other
public and private entities.
"t2) The Adrntnistrator, acting through Ike
Associate Administrator for Prevention,
shall annually submit to the Congress a
report describing the prevention activities
'including preventive medicine and health
promotion) undertaken by the Administration
and its agencies. The report shall include
a detailed statement of the expenditures
made for the activities reported on
and the pcrsonnei used in connectian joi'rt
such activities.
"If) The Administrator skaU establish a
process for the prompt and appropriate response
to information provided the Administrator
resjiecttng tl) scientific fmud in
connection vAth projects for which funds
have been made available under this title,
and <2) incidences of violationA of the rights
of human subjects of research for which
funds have been made available under this
title. The process shall include procedures
for the receiving of reports a^sucft information
from recipients of funds under this title
and taking appropriate action with respect
<0 such fraud and violations.
"(g> The Secretary, acting through the Adminislralor.
shall make grants to scfioois of
the health professions and schools of social
work to support the training <3/ students in
such schools in the identification and treatment
of alcohol and drug abuse. Granls
under this subsection shall be made from
funds available under this title and section
$03.
"Ih) To educate the public with respect to
the health hazards of alcoholism, alcohol
abuse, and drug abuse, the Administrator
shall use the clearinghouse established
under section SOS'c) to lake such actions as
may be necessary to ensure the widespread
dissemination of current publications of the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
and the National Institute on
Drug Abuse relating Co the most recent research
findings with respect to such health
hazards.
"lU'D The. Administrator may obtain (in
accordance with section 3109 of title S.
United States Code, but without regard to
the limitation in. such section on the
number of days or the period of service) the
sendees of not mare than 20 experts or consultants
who hax>e scientific or professional
Qualifications. Such experts and consultants
shall be obtained for Che Administration and
for each of its agencies.
•'/2)'A) Experts ond consultants whose
services are obtained under paragraph (1)
shall he paid or reimbursed for their expenses
associated with (raveling to and
from their assigttment location in accordance
with sections 5724. S72iaia)(l)
57Z4ala)l3), and 57261c) of title S. United
States Code.
"(B) Expenses specified in subparagraph
lA) may not be allowed in connection with
the assignment of an expert or consultant
whose sen-ices are obtained under paragraph
(1), unless and until the expert or consultant
agrees in writing to complete the
entire period of assignment or one year,
whichever is sftorter, unless separated or reassigned
for reasons beyond the control of
the ejpert or consnWant that are acceptdWe
to the Secretary. If the expert or consultant
i'iolates (he agreement, the money spent by
the United States for Che expenses specified
in subparagraph (A) is recoverable from the
expert or consultant as a debt of the United
States. The Secretary may waive in whole or
in part a right of recovery under this subparagraph,
"(j) The Administrator shall, without
regard to the provisions of title 5, United
States Code, governing appointments in the
competitive service, and without regard to
the provisions of cAopter 52 and subchapter
III of chapter S3 of such title, relating to
classification and Generat Schedule pay
rates, establish such technical and scientific
peer reriew groups as ore needed to carry
out the reguirements of section $07 and appoint
and pay members of such groups,
except Chat officers and employees of the
United States shall not receive additional
competisalian for services as members of
such groups. The Federal Advisory Committee
Act shall not apply to the duration of a
peer review group appointed under this subsection.
"(k)(l) The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Menial Health Advisory Board (hereinafter
in this subsection referred la as the '^ard')
shall—
"(A) periodically assess Uie natianal needs
for alcoholism, alcohol abuse, drug abuse,
and menial health semiees tintt the extent to
which those needs are being met by State,
local, and private programs and progra-ns
receiving funds under this title and parts B
and Cofiille XtX, and
"(B) provide advice to Che Secretary and
the Administrator reacting activities carried
out under this title and parts B and C
oftiOeXlX.
"(2>'A) The Board shall consist of 15 members
appointed by the Secretory ond sacft ex
officio members from the National Institute
on Alcohol and Alcoholism, the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute
of ttfentot Health as the Secretary
may designate. Of the members appointed to
the Board, at least 6 members shall represent
Stale and private, nonprofit providers of
prevention and treatment services for alcoholism.
alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and
mental illness, at least S members shall be
individuals with expertise in public education
and prevention services for alcoholism,
alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and menial illness,
and at least 3 members shall be appointed
from members of the general public
who are knowledgeable about alcoholism, alcohol
abuse, drug abuse, and menial illness.
"IB) The term of office of a member appointed
to the Board is 4 years, except that
of the members first appointed to the
Board—
"(i) 5 shall serve for terms of 1 year,
"(ii) 5 shall serve for terms of 2 years,
"(Hi) 5 shall serve for terms of 3 years,
as designated by the Secretary at the time of
appointment Any member appointed to fill
a vacancy occurring before Che expiration of
the term for which the predecessor of such
member teas appointed shall be appointed
only for the remainder of such term. A
member may serve after the expiration of
the member's term until the successor of the
member has taken office.
"(3)'A) Except as provided in subparagraph
(B), members of the Board shall (i) tie
paid not more than the daily eguivalent of
the annual rate of basic pay in effect for
grade OS-IS of the General Schedule for
each day (including Cravellimei during
which they are enffoffed in the actual performance
of duties vested in the Soord. and
(ii) while away from their homes or regular
places of ftusfness and while serving in Che
business of the Board, be entitled to receive
transportation expenses os prescribed by
section 5703 of title S. United States Code.
"(B) Members of the Board who arc fulltime
officers or employees of the United
Stofes shall receive no additional pay, allowances.
or benefits by reason of their service
on the Board.
"(4) The Board may appoint suck staff
personnel as the Board considers appropriate.
"(5) The Secretary shall designate the
chairman of the Board.
"(6) The Board shall meet at least 3 limes
each calendar year.
"(7) The Board, shall report annually to
the Committee on Energy and Commerce of
the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Labor and Human Resources of
the Senate on its activities during the prior
year and shall include in such report sucA
recommendalions for tepistotion and administrative
action as it deems appropriate.
".
SBC. 1904. APVLSHRY COVSCILS.
(a) Part A of title V is amended by redesignating
sections 505 and 506 as sections 506
and SO?, respectively, and by inserting after
section 504 the following new section:
"APVISORY COUNCILS
"SEC. SOS. fa)ll) The Secretary shall appoint
an advisory council for the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
for Che National Institute on Drug Abuse,
and for the Nalional Institute of Mental
Health. Each sucA advisory council shall
advise, consult with, and make recommendations
to the Secretory and the Director of
the Institute for which it was appointed on
matters relating to the activities carried out
by and through the Institute and the policies
respecting such activities.
"(2) Each adxfisory council for an Institute
may recommend to the Secretary acceptance,
in accordance with section 2101,
of conditional gifts for—
"(A) study, investigation, or research respecting
the diseases, disorders, or other
aspect of human health with respect to
which the Institute was established;
"(B) the acQuisition of grounds for Pie Institute;
or
"(C) the construction, eguipping, or maintenance
of facilities for the Institute.
"(3> Each advisory council for an Institute—
"(A)'i> may on the basis of Pie materials
provided under section 507(d)(2) respecting
research conducted at the institute, make
reeommendations to the Director of the Institute
respecting such research;
"(ii) shall review applications for grants
and cooperative agreements for researcA or
treininp and for which advisory council approval
is reQuired under section S07(e)<2),
and recommend fbr approval applications
for projects which show promise of making
valuable contributions to human knowledge;
and
"(in) may review any grant contract or
cooperative agreement proposed to be made
or entered into by the InsCitute;
"(B> may collect by correspondence or by
personal investigation, information as to
studies which are being carried an in the
United States or any other country as to the
diseases, disorders, or other aspect of human
health with respect to which Ihe Institute
was estabtfsAed and with the approval of the
Director of the Institute make available
such information through appropriate pubtioations
for the benefit of public and private
health entities and health professions
personnel and scientists and for the information
of the general public; and
. "(C) may appoint subcommittees and convene
workshops and conferences.
"(b)'ir Each advisory council shall consist
of nonvoting ex officio members and not
more than 12 members appointed by the Secretary.
"(2) The ex officio members of an advisory
council shall consist of—
"(A) the Secretory, the Administrator, the
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SOTV council is established, the Chief Medical
Director of the Veterans' Administration.
and the Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Health Affairs (or the designees of such
officers!, and
"(B! such additional officers or employees
of the United States as the Secretary determines
necessary for the advisory council to
effectively carry out its functions.
"(3) The •members of an aavTSorv council
who are not ex officio members shall be oppointed
as follows:
"(A) Nine of the members shall be appointed
by the Secretary from among the leading
representatives of the health and scientific
disciplines (including public health and the
behavioral or social sciences! relevant Co the
activities of the Institute for which the advisory
council is established.
"(B) Three of the members shall be appointed
by the Secretary from the general
public and shall include leaders in fields of
putitic policy, public relations, law, health
policy, economics, and management.
"(4! Members of on advisory council who
are o/>'tcers or employees of the United
Staler shall not receive any compensation
for sendee on the adidsory council. The
other members of an advisory council shall
receive, for each day (including travel lime!
they are engaged in the performance of the
functions of the advisory council, compensation
at rates not to exceed the daily equivalent
of the annual rate in effect for grade
GS-IS of the General Schedule.
"(c) The term of office of an appointed
member of an advisory council is 4 years,
except that any member appointed to fill a
vacancy for an uneiptred term shall be appointed
for the remainder of such term and
the Secretary shall make appointments to an
advisory council in such manner as to
ensure iftat the terms of the members do not
all expire in the same year. A member may
serve after the expiration of the member's
term until a successor has taken office. A
member who has been appointed for a term
of 4 years may not be reappointed to an advisory
council before 2 years from the date
of expiration of such term of office. If a t>aeoncp
occurs in the advisory council among
the oppointed members, the Secretary shall
make an appointment to fill the vacancy
within 90 days from the dale the vacancy
occurs.
"(d) The chairman of an advisory council
shall be selected by the Secretary from
among the appointed members, except that
the Secretary may select the Director of the
Institute for which the advisory council is
established to be the chairman of the advisory
council. The term of office of chairman
shall be 2 years.
"(e) The advisory council shall meet at the
call of the chairman or upon the request of
the Director of the Institute for which it was
established, but at least 3 times each fiscal
year. The location of the meetings of each
advisory council is subject to the approval
of the Director of the Institute for which the
advisory council was established.
"(f) 77ie Director of the Institute for which
an advisory council is estabhshed shall designate
a member of the staff of the Institute
to serve as the executive secretary of the advisory
counciL The Director of the Institute
shall make available to the advisory council
such staff, information, ond other assistance
as it may require to carry out its functions.
The Director of the Institute shall provide
orientation and training for new members
of the advisory council to provide them
with such information and training as may
be appropriate for their effective participation
in the functions of the advisory council.".
(b) The amendment made by subsection
(a) does not terminate the membership of
any advisory council for Che National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, or the National
Institute of Mental Health which was
in existence on the date of enactment of this
^ct. After such date—
(1) the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall make appointments to each
such advisory council in sueft a manner as
to bring about as soon as practicable the
composition for such council prescribed by
section SOS of the Public Health Service Act;
(2) each advisory council shall organize
itself in accordance with such section and
exercise the functions prescribed by such
section: and
(3) the Director of each such institute shall
perform for such advisory council the functions
prescribed by such section.
(c) Section 217 is amended—
(1) by striking out subsections (a), (b), (c),
and (d):
(2) by striking out "(e)(1)" and inserting
in lieu thereof "(a)":
(3) by striking out "(2)" and inserting in
lieu thereof "(b)":
(4) by striking out "(3)" and inserting in
lieu tJiereo/'Vci";
(5) by striking out "(4)" and inserting in
lieu thereof "(d)": and
(6) by redesignating clauses (A) and (B) of
subsection (c) (as redesignated by the
amendment made by paragraph (4) of this
subsection) as clauses (1) and (2), respectively.
SEC. 4ms, OFFICE FOR SVBHTASCE ABVSE PREVEST(
ON.
(a) Pari A of title V (as amended by section
4004 of this Act) is further amended by
adding at the end thereof the following new
sections:
"OFFICE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION
"SEC. SOS. (a) There is established in the
Administration an Office for Substance
Abuse Prevention (hereafter in this part referred
to as the 'Office'). The Office shall be
headed by o Director appointed by the Secretary/
rom indh'iduals with extensive experience
or ocademic qualifications in the prevention
of drug or alcohol abuse.
"(b) The Director of the Office shall—
"(I) sponsor regional workshops on the
prevention of drug and alcohol abuse;
"(2) coordinate the findings of research
sponsored by agencies of the Semtce on the
prevention of drug and alcohol abuse:
"(3) develop effective drug and alcohol
obuse prei'enfion iiterature (including literature
on the adverse effects of cocaine free
base (knoum. as 'crack')):
"(4) in cooperation with the Secretary of
Education, assure the widespread dissemination
of prevention materials among
States, political subdivisions, and school
systems:
"(5) support programs of clinical training
of substance abuse counselors and other
health professionals:
"(6) in cooperation with the Director of
the Centers for Disease Control, develop educational
materials to reduce the risks of acquired
immune deficiency syndrome among
intravenous drug abusers:
"(7) conduct training, technical assistance,
data collection, and evaluation activities
of programs supported under the Drug
Free Schools and Communities Act of I9S8; I "(8) support the development of model, innoi'atii'c,
community-based programs to discourage
alcohol and drug obuse among
young people: and
"IS) prepare for distribution documentary
films and public service announcements for
television and radio to educate the public
concerning the dangers to health resulting
from the consumption of alcohol and drugs
and, to the extent feasible, use appropriate
private organizations and business concerns
in the preparation of suck announcements.
"(c) The Director may make grants and
enter into contracts and cooperative agreements
in carrying out subsection (b>.
"(d) Of the amounts ai'Oitabfe under Die
second sentence of section 1921(a) to carry
out this section and section S09A,
$20,000,000 shall be available to carry out
section S09A.
"ALCOHOL AND DRUO ABUSE INFORMATION
CLEARINQHOUSE
"SEC, 509. The Secretary, through the Director
of the Office, shall establish a clearinghouse
for atcobot and drug abuse information
to assure the widespread dissemination
of such information to States, political
subdivisions, educational agencies and institutions,
health and drug treatment and
rehabilitation networks, and the general
public. The clearinghouse shall—
"(1) disseminate publications by the National
institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
the National Institute on Drug
Abuse, and the Department of Education
concerning alcohol abuse and drug abuse;
"(2) disseminate accurate information
concerning the health effects of alcohol
abuse and drug abuse;
"(3) collect and disseminate information
concerning successful alcohol abuse and
drug abuse education and prevention curricula;
and
"(4) collect and disseminate information
on effective and ineffective school-based atcohol
abuse and drug abuse education and
prevention programs, particularly effective
programs which stress that the use of illegal
drugs and the abuse of alcohol Is wrong and
harmful.
"PREVENTION, TREATMENT. AND REHABILITATION
MODEL PROJECTS FOR HIGH RISK YOUTH
"SEC. S09A. (a) The Secretary, through the
Director of the Office, shall make grants to
public and nonprofit private entities for
projects to demonstrate effective models for
the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation
of drug abuse and alcohol abuse among
high risk youth.
"IbllD In making grants for drug abuse
and alcohol abuse prevention projects under
this section, the Secretary shall give priority
to applications for projects directed at children
of substance abusers, tatcW:ey children,
children at risk of abuse or neglect, preschool
children eligible for services under
the Head Starl Act, children at risk of dropping
out of school, children at risk of becoming
adolescent parents, and children who do
not attend school and who are at risk of
being unemployed.
"(2) In making grants for drug abuse and
alcohol abuse treatment and rehabilitation
projects under this section, the Secretary
shall give priority to projects which address
the relationship between drug obuse or alcohol
abuse and physical child abuse, sexual
child abuse, emotional child abuse, dropping
out of school, unemployment, delinquency.
pregnancy, violence, suicide, or
mental health problems.
"(3) In making grants under this section,
the Secretary shall give priority to applications
from community based organizations
for projects to develop innouatiue models
with muttipte, coordinated services for the
prevention or for the treatment and rehabilitation
of drug abuse or alcohol abuse by
high risk youth.
"(4) In making grants under this section,
the Secretary shall give priority to applications
for projects to demonstrate effective
models with multiple, coordinated services
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habUitation of iru^ abuse or aleo/tei abuse
by high risk youth.
"Id To the extent feasibte. the Secretary
shall mofce grants under this section in all
regions of the United States, and shall
ensu^re the distribution of grarUs under this
secflon among urban and rural areas.
"(d! In order to receive a grant for a
project under this section for a fiscal year, a
public or nonprofii private entity stiaU
submit an applicaUon to the Secretary,
acting through the Office. The Secretary
may provide to the Governor of the State the
opportunity to review and comment on iucA
application. Such application shaU be in
such form, shall contotn such injormatton,
and shall be submilled at such time as the
Secretary may by regulation prescribe.
"lei The Director of the Office shaU evaluate
projects conducted with grants under
this section.
"If) For purposes of this section, the term
high risk youth' means an individual who
has not attained the age. of 21 years, who is
at htfdt risk of becoming, or who has become,
a drug abuser or an alcohol abuser, and
who—
"ID is identified as a child of a substance
abuser;
"121 is a Bietim of physical, sexual or psychalogical
abuse;
"13/ has dropped out of school
"1*1 has became pregnant;
"IS! is economieaHy disadvantaged;
"IS! has committed a violent or deUnguent
act;
"17/ has experienced mental health problems;
"ISI has attempted suicide; or
"19/ is disabled by injuries.".
lb/Ill Section S02ie/ ia repealed.
121 Section S03id/ is amended—
lAI by inserting "and" at the end of paragraph
12);
IB/ by striking out and" at the end of
paragraph 13/ and inserting in lieu thereof a
period; and
Id by striking out paragraph 14/.
SKC sm. n'BUCHB.ttTHSifEBSF.W/E.'i
Part A of title V las amended by sections
4004 and 4005 of this Act) is further amended
try adding at the end thereof the followrng:
"NESEARCH on PCBUC MSI.TH EMNGENCISS
"Sec. S09B. la) tf the Secretary determines.
after consultation with the Adm-inis-
IratoT. the ComminicneT of Food and
Drugs, or the Director of the Centers for Disease
Control, that a disease or disorder
within the jurisdiction of an Institute of the
Administration, constitutes a piMic health
emergency, the Secretary, acting through the
AdministraCor—
"ID shall expedite the review by advisory
councils and by peer review groups apjHtcations
for grants for research on such disease
or disorder or proposals for contracts
for such research:
"12/ shall exercise the authority in section
3709 of the Revised Statutes 141 U.S.C. 5/ respecting
public exigencies to waive the advertising
regutrements of such section in the
case of proposals for contracts for such research;
"13/ may provide administrative supplemental
increases in existing grants and contracts
to support new research relevant Co
such disease or disorder; and
"14/ shall disseminate, to health professionals
and the public, information on the
cause, prevention, and treatment of such
disease or disorder that has been developed
in research assisted under this section.
The amount of an increase in a grant or
contract provided under paragraph 13) may
not exceed one-half the original amount of
the grant or contract.
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"lb/ ffot later than 30 days after the end of
a fiscal year, the Secretary shall report to
the Committee on Energy and Commerce of
the House of Representatives and the Committee
on lAibOT and Human Resources of
the Senate on actions ttzken under subsection
la) in such fiscal year if any actions
were taken under such subsection in such
fiseal year.".
SEC /on?. PEER REtiEW.
Subsection lb) of section 507 las redesignated
by section 4004{al of this Act! is
amended by inserting "applications made
for" after "review of in the matter preceding
paragraph 11).
SF.C. isn. NAHOSAL ALCOHOL RESEARCH CEXTERS.
Section Slllbl is amended—
m by striking out "or rental" before "any
land"; and
12/ by striking out "rental," before "purchase".
SEC. «W EXPA-VSHW OP DRCG ABVSS RESEARCH.
Section StSia) is amended—
ID by striking out "and" after the semicolon
in paragraph 14/:
12/ by striking out paragraph IS) and inserting
in lieu thereof the following;
"ISI effective methods of drug oftusg prevention,
treatment, and rehabilitation, particularly
methods of intervention to treat
abuse of specific drugs; and": and
13/ by adding at the end thereof the feUowing:
"It/ the development of chemical antidotes
and narcotic antagonists for use in the
treatment of cocaine and heroin addiction.".
•SEC. me. RESEARCRAnmmZATioH.
la) Section 513 is amended to read as follows:
"AOTHOMZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS
"SEC. 513. There are authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this subpart
$69,000,000 for fiscal year 1987.".
lb) Section 517 is amended to read as follows:
"AVTHORJXATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS
"SEC. 517. There are authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this subpart
$129,000,000 for fiscal year 1987.".
SEC. ABU. silcmEla)
Section 504 is ameiuied by aiidtng at
the end thereof the following new subsection;
"Ihj The Director shall—
"ID develop and publish tnformaiion respecting
the causes of suicide and the means
of preventing suicide; and
"12/ make such information generally
available to the public and health professionals.
tnformalUm developed pubUshed, and distributed
under t/sis subsection shall especially
relate la suicide among individuals under
the age of 21.".
lb) Not later than one year after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Director the
National Institute of Mental Health shaU
report to Committee on Labor and Human
Resources of Wie Senate and the Committee
on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives on Oie activities undertaken
unster sAxtion 504ih/ of the Public Health
Service Act and shall include in suck report
an assessment of the effectiveness of such activities.
AOIt ME.NT.AL HEALTH NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY.
Section 504icl is amended fry adding at
tl^ end thereof the following: "Special consideration
shall be given to programs for
training and research on Che menial health
needs of the elderly.
SEC. ABW. TECENICAL AMENDHBNT.
Section 5IMle/ is amended by striking out
the period at the end of paragraph I2IIA/'
and inserting in lieu there-^a semicolon.
SF.C. ASIA. LNFANTFDRWI.AK
la) Section 412 of the. Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act is amended—
ID by redesignating subsections te). ifl,
and tg) as subsections ig/, Ih); and IV. respectively.
12/ by amending the last sentence of pomgraph
ID of subsection igl las so redesignated)
to read as follows: "Such records shaS be
retained for at least one year after the expiration
of the shelf life of the infant formula.".
13) by striking out "la/ and ibJ" m the
Arst sentence of subsection lh)lD las so redesignated)
and inserting in lieu thereof
"la), lb), and lO".
(4) by striking out "lc)ll)" in the second
sentence of such subsection and inserting in
lieu thereof "le)ID".
15/ by striking out "le/IDIBf" in such sentence
and inserting' in lieu thereof
"Id/IIHB)".
16) by striking out "la/ and lb/" In subsection
Ih/I2l las so redesignated) and inserting
in, lieu thereof "la/, lb J. and lc>antf
17/ by striking out subsections laJ through
Id) and inserting in lieu thereto the follow
ing:
"la) An infant formula, including an
infant formula powder, shall be deemed to
be adulterated if—
"11/ such infant formula does not provide
nutrients as required by saiiseetion fi),
"121 such infant formula dees not meet the
quality factor requirements preseribed by
the Secretary under subsection lb/ID. or
"13/ the processing of such infant formula
is not in compliance with the good ntanufacluring
practices and the qaalUy control
procedures prescribed by the aecretary
under subsection lb/12/.
"lb/ID The Secretary shall by regukstion
establish requirements for quality factors JS#/
infant formulas to the extent possible consistent
with current scientific knowledge, including
quality factor requirements far Che
nutrients required by subsection H).
"I2)IA/ The Secretary shall by regulation
establish good manufacturing practices for
infant formulas, including qwality control
procedures that the Secretary determines are
necessary to assure that an irfant formula
provides nutrients in accordanee with this
subsection end subsection HI and is manafactured
in a manner designed to prevent
adulteration of the infant formula.
"IB) The good manufaiduring practices
and quality control procedures prescribed by
the Secretary under subparagraph lA) shall
incluAie retpiirements for—
"m the toting, in accordance with paragraph
13/ and by the manufacturer of an
infant formula or an agent of such manufacturer,
of each batch of Infant formula for
each nutrient required by subsection Hi
before the distribution of such batch.
"Hi/ regularly scheduled testing, by the
manufacturer of an infant formula or an
agent of such manufacturer, of samples of
infant formulas during the shelf life of such
formulas to ensure that such formulas are in
compliance with this section,
"liW in-process controls including, where
necessarv, testing required by good manufacturing
practices designed ta prevent
adulteration of each batch of infant formula,
and
"fiv/ the conduct by the manufacturer of
an infant formula or an agent of such manufacturer
of regularly scheduled audits to
determine Diat such manufacturer has complied
with the regulations prescribed under
subparagraph lAl.
In prescribing requirements for audita
under clause Hv/. the Secretary shaR proiii<fe
Diat such audits be conducted by appropriately
tniinecf individuals who do not have
H 11254 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17,1986
any direct responsibilily for ike manufacture
or production of infant formula.
"IJKAI At the final product stage, each
batcfi of infant formula shall be tested for
vitamin A, riianim Bi. vitamin C, and vitamin
E to ensure that suck infant formula
in compliance ieitti the requirements of this
subsection and subsection (il relating to
such vitamins.
"tBI Each nutrient premii used in the
manufacture of an infant formula shall be
tested/or eacA relied upon nutrient required
by subsection (it which is contained in such
premix to ensure that such premix is in
compliance wnth its specifications or certifications
by a premix supplier.
"(Ct During the manufacturing process or
at the final product stage and before distribution
of an infant formula, an infant formula
shall be tested for all nutrients required
to be included in such formula by
subseclUya (it for which testing has not been
conducted pursuant to subparagraph (A) or
(B). Testing under this subparagraph shall
be conducted to—
"(it ensure that each batch of such infant
formula is in compliance with the requirements
of subsection ti) relating to such nutrients,
and
"tin confirm thai nutrients contained in
any nutrient premix used in such infant formidn
are present in each batch of such
in/ant formula in the proper concentration.
•'(D) If the Secretary adds a nutrient to the
list of nutrients in the table in subsection
ti), the Secretary shall by regulation require
that the manufacturer of an infant formula
test each batch of such formula for such new
nutrient in accordance with subparagraph
(A). IB), or (C).
"<El For purposes of this paragraph, the
term final prodMt stage' means the point
in the manufacturing process, before distribution
of an infant formula, at which an
infant formula is homogenous and is not
subject to further degradation.
' (4IIAI The Secretary shall by regulation
esfabitsh requirements respecting the retention
of records. Such requirements shall provide
for—
"li> the retention of all records necessary
to demonstrate compliance with the good
manufacturing practices and quality control
procedures prescribed by the Secretary
under paragraph (21, including records containing
the results of all testing required
under paragraph I2I(S),
"(ii) the retention of all certifications or
guarantees of analysis by premix suppliers,
"fiW the retention by a premti supplier of
all records necessary to confirm the accuracy
of all premix certifications and guarantees
of analysis.
"(iv) the retention of—
"(1) all records pertaining to the microbiological
quality and purity of raw materials
used in infant formula powder and in finished
infant formula, and
"III/ all records pertaining to food packaging
materials which show that such materials
do not cause an infant formula to be
adulterated within the meaning of section
402/a)(2i'CJ.
"(vl the retention of at! records of the results
of regularly scheduled audits conducted
pursuant to the requirements prescribed
by the Secretary under paraprapA tZXBUiv),
and
"(vi) the retention of all complaints and
the maintenance affiles with respect to. and
the review of, complaints concerning infant
formulas which may reveal the possible existence
of a hazard to health.
"(B/li) Records required under subparagraph
(A) with respect to an infant formula
shall be retained for at least one year after
the expiration of the shelf life of such infant
formula. Except as provided in ctause IW.
such records shall be made available to the
Secretary for review and duplication upon
request of the Secretary,
•'liil A manufacturer need only provide
written assurances to the Secretary that the
regularly scheduled audits required by paragraph
i2iiBitivl are being conducted, by the
manufacturer, and need not make available
to the Secrefarp the actual wrillen reports of
such audits.
"(cllli No person shall introduce or deliver
for introduction into interstate commerce
any new infant formula unless—
"(A) such person has, before introducing
such new infant /orniufo, or detitierins such
new infant formula for introduction, info
interstate commerce, registered with the Secretary
the name of such person, the place of
business of such person, and all establishments
at which such person intends to manufacture
such new infant formula, and
"(B) such person has at least 90 days
before marketing such new infant formula,
made the submission to the Secretary required
by subsection tc)(l).
"(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the
term 'new infant formula'includes—
"(A) an infant formula manufactured by a
person which has not previously manufactured
an i'lfant formula, and
"(B) an infant formula manufactured by a
person which has previously manufactured
infant formula and in whxch there is a
mojor cAanpe. in processing or formulation,
from a current or any previous formulation
produced by such manufacturer.
For purposes of this paraprapA, the term
'major change' has the meaning given to
such term in section 106.30icli2) of title 21.
Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on
August I, 1986), and guidelines issued thereunder.
"(dXl) A person shall, with respect to any
infant formula subject to subsection (c),
make a submission to the Secretary which
shall include—
"(A) the quantitative formulation of the
infant formula.
"(B) a description of any reformtilation of
the formula or change in processinp of the
infant formula.
"(C) assurances that the infant formula
will not be marketed unless it meets the requirements
of subsections lb)(l) and (i), as
demonstrated by the tesfinp required under
subsection (b>l3), and
"(DJ assura7ices that the processing of the
infant formula complies with subsection
(b)l2).
"(2) After the first production of an infant
formula subject to sut>section (c). and b^ore
the introduction into interstate commerce of
such formula, the manufacturer of such formula
shall submit Co Ike Secretary, in such
form as may be. prescribed by the Secretary,
a icn'tfen verification which summarises
test results and records demonstrating that
such formula complies with the requirements
of subsections (b)(1), tb)(2)IA),
(b)(t>(B>li). <b>(2)(B)(Ui), (b>(3)(A>,
(b>/3)fC). and (i).
"(3) If the manufacturer of an in/ant formula
for commercial or charitable distribution
for Aaman consumption determines
that a change in the formulation of the formula
or a cAanpe in the processing of the
formula may affect whether the formula is
adulterated under subsection to/, the manufacturer
shall tufore the first processing of
such formula, make the submission to the
Secretary required by paragraph (1).
"(eXI) If the mcnufacturer of an infant
formula has knowledge loAicA reasonabip
supports the conclusion tAof on Infant formula
which has been processed bit the manufacturer
and which has left an estabtisAmenf
subject to the control of the manufacturer—
"(A) may not provide the nutrients required
by subsection (i). or
"(B) majt be otherwise aduUeraled or misbranded,
the manufacturer shall promptly notify the
Secretary of such knowledge. If the Secretary
delermvies that the infant formula presents
a risk to human health, the manufacturer
shall immediately lake all aclions necessary
to recall shipments of sucA infant formula
from all wholesale and retail establishments,
consistent with recall regulations and guidelines
issued by the Secretary,
"(2) For purposes of paropraph tl). the
term 'knowledge' as applied to a manufacturer
means (A) ike actual knowledge thai
the manufacturer had, or (B) the knowledge
which a reasonable person would have had
under like circumstances or which would
have been obtained upon the exercise of due
care.
"(f)!!) If a recall of infant formula is
begun by a manufacturer, the recall shall be
carried out in accordance with suck requirements
as the Secretary shall prescribe under
paragraph (2) and—
"(A) the Secretary shall not later than the
ISth day after the beginning of such recall
and at least once every IS days thereafter
until the recall is terminated, review the actions
taken under the recall to determine
whether ike recall meets the requirements
prescribed under paragraph (2), and
"(B) the manufacturer shall not later
than the 14th day ajler the beginning of
such recall and at least once every 14 days
thereafter until the recall is terminated,
report to the Secretary the actions lalcen to
implement the recall
"(2) The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe
the scope and extent of recalls of
infant formulas necessary and appropriate
for the degree of risks to human health presented
by the formula subject to the recall
"(3) The Secretary shall bp r^utafion require
each manufcxcturer of an infant formula
uiAo begins a recall of such formula because
of a risk to human health to request
each retail establishment at which such formula
is sold or available for sale to post at
the point of purchase of such formula a
notice of such recall at such establishment
for such time that the Secretary determines
necessary to inform the public of such
recall.
(bxi) Subsection d) of such section las so
redesignated) is amended—
tA) by inserting "ID"after "dJ",
(B) by striking out "subsection (a)" and
inserting in lieu thereof "paragraph",
to by striking out the colon and inserting
in lieu thereof a period, and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
"(2) The Secretary may by regulation—
"(A) revise the list of nutrients in the table
in this subsection, and
"(B) revise the required level for any nutrient
required by the tabte.".
(2) Section 301(s) of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act is amended to read
as follows:
"(s) The failure to provide the notice repaired
by section 4121c) or 4l2ld). the failure
to make the reports required by section
412(f)(lXB), the failure to retoin the records
required by section 412(bX4), or the failure
to meet the requirements prescribed under
section 422tfX3).".
.SEC. 40IS. SrtWKO.V AI.KYL .VITRITES.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services,
through the Commissioner of Food and
Drugs and the Director of the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, sltaU, within 180 days
of the date of the enactment of this Acl conduct
a study on alkyl nitrites to determine—
October 17, 1986
(1) the extent and nature of the use of
atkyl nitrite! products by the public,
I2J the extent to which the use of such
products conform to the advertised uses of
the products, and
13) the extent to which the sale of such
products to the public presents o health risk
and the nature of such risk.
The Secretary shall report to the Committee
on Energy and Commerce of the Hoxise of
Representatives and the Committee on
Labor and Human Resources of the Senate
on such study and shall include in the
report recommendations concerning whether
atkyl nitrites should be treated as a drug
under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act
SKC. me. SFSSE OF THE SF.\ATE WITH KESPEIT TO
POSSE.ISIOn Ok DIHTRIBVTlOy OF
DRVOS CNDEH STATE Ui If.
His the sense of the Senate that, if the possession
or distribution of a drug is an offense
under the Controlled Substances Act.
the laws of the Stales should not be amended
or revised to provide that the possession or
distribution, respectively, of such drug is
not a criminal offense.
SEC. isn. STVOIES O.V HEALTH W.iRStSC LABELS
FOB ALVOHOUC BEVERAGES.
(a) The Senate finds that—
tit the most abused drug in America alcohol;
t2) alcohol abuse costs the American economy
nearly tl20,000,000.000 per year, including
increased medical expenses and decreased
productivity;
<3) in 1984. 53 percent of the traffic fatalities
in the United States, accounting for
more than 23,500 deaths, were related to the
consumption of alcohol;
14) over 12,000,000 American adults have
one or more symptoms of alcoholiSTTi, and
this represents an 8.2 percent increase in
problem drinking since 1980;
(5) in 1984. almost 3,300,000 individuals
between the ages of 14 and 17 experienced serious
problems at home, in school, or with
the law because of alcohol consumption;
<6) fetal alcohol syndrome is the third
leading cause of birth defects, and is the
only preventable cause of btrth defects
among the top three causes;
(7) nearly 5.000 babies per year are bom
with birth defects related to fetal alcohol
syndrome;
18) the statistics cited in the preceding
paragraphs of this subsection indicate that
many Americans are not aware of the adverse
effects that the abuse of alcoholic beverages
may have on health;
<9) it is necessary to undertake a serious
national effort to educate the American
people of the serious consegw7ices of alcohol
abuse; and
110) carefully drafted warning labels on
the containers of alcoholic beverages concerning
serious health conseguences resulting
from the abuse of alcohol may assist in
providing such education.
lb) Therefore, it is the sense of the Senate
that—
>1) the Public Health Service should focus
attention on the problem of educating the
American people on the senous health conseguences
of alcohol abuse:
12) the Public Health Service should
review available knowledge and conduct
studies to assess the most effective means of
providing such education, including an assessment
of the potential educational
impact of health warning labels on the containers
of alcoholic beverages; and
13) the Public Health Service should transmit
a report to the Congress within 8
months after the date of enactment of this
Act concerning any activities descried in
paragraph <2) which have been undertaken.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11255
and should include in such report any findings
respecting the impact and potential
benefits of displaying health warnings on
the containers of alcoholic beverages and
recommendations for specific language for
such labels.
SEC. «/«. EFFORTS OF THE EyTERTAI.\ME.\T ASD
WRTTTEH MEDIA IRDVSTRr.
II is the sense of Congress thatfl)
whereas illegal drug and alcohol consumption
and the trafficking in those illegal
drugs and alcohol is a major problem in the
United States,
12) whereas the problem of alcohol abuse is
particularly prevalent among and harmful
to the Nation's young people, and
13) whereas the values and mores portrayed
in various forms of commeTCially
produced entertainvienl have a profound
effect on the attitudes of young people in
this country,
the entertainment and written media industry
should refrain from producing material
meant for general entertainment which in
any way glamorises or encourages the use of
illegal drugs and alcohol and the entertainment
and wrillen media industry should develop
films, television programs, records,
videos, and advertising which discourage
the use of tllegal drugs and alcohol
•SEC. 4SIS. 8E.\SE OF THE CO.XGRESS VRGtNG THE
CATF.GORIZATIOS OF FILMS WHICH
PROMOTE ALCOHOL ABISB A.\D DRVG
USE.
ta) The Con?ress;^nds that—
11) the abuse of atcoftot and the use of
drugs has become a societal problem of epidemic
proportions,
12) it is in the interest of all citieens to
contribute to the reduction of alcohol abuse
and drug use. particularly among youth,
13) the entertainment indtistry, particularly
the motion picture industry's production
of youth-oriented films, often depicts alcohol
abuse and drug use in a benign, even glamorous
way,
(4) the motion picture industry has a profound
impact on soeietat norms and is a
powerful medium tchich exerts great influence
on the values of youth, and
15) the motion picture industry has recognized
the need to inform parents atiout the
contents of movies regarding violence, sex,
language, and nudity and therefore currently
employs a voluntary rating system.
lb) It is the sense of the Congress that the
Motion Picture Association of America
should incorporate a neio rating in its voluntary
movie rating system to clearly iden-
Ufy films which depict alcohol abuse and
drug use.
SEC. «« AMMAI.S IS RBSE.ARCH.
Part A of title V, as amended by sections
4004 and 4005 is amended by addinp at the
end the following;
"ASIMALS IN RESEARCH
"SEC. S09C. la) The Secretary, acting
through the Administrator, shall establish
guidelines for the following;
"ID The proper care of animals to be used
in researcft conducted by and through agencies
of the Administration.
"12) The proper treatment of animals
while being used in such research. Sidelines
under this paragraph shall require—
"lA) The appropriate use of tranquilizers,
anatffesics, anestbefies. paralytics, and euthanasia
for animals in such research; and
"IB) appropriate pre-surgicat and postsurgical
veterinary medical and nursing
care for animals in such research.
Such guidelines shall not be construed to
prescribe methods of research.
"(3) The organization and operation of
animal care committee in accordance with
subsection lb).
"(bill) Guidelines of the Secretary under
subsection Iatt3) shall require animal care
committees at each entity which conducts
research with funds provided under this title
to assure compliance u'itb the guidelines established
under subsection la).
"12) Each animal care committee shall be
appointed by the chief executive officer of
the entity for which the committee is established,
shall be composed of not fewer than
three members, and shall include at least
one individual who has no association with
such entity and at least one doctor of veterinary
medicine.
"lo Each animal care committee of a research
entity shall—
"ID review the care and treatment of animals
in all animal study areas and facilities
of the research entity at least semiannually
to evaluate compliance with applicable
guidelines established under subsection la)
for appropriate animal care and treatment;
"12) keep appropriate records of reviews
conducted under paragraph <D; and
"13) for each review conducted under
paragraph <D. file with the Administrator at
least annually (A) a certification that the
review has been conducted, and IB) report of
any violations of guidelines established
under subsection (a) or of assurances required
under subsection Id) which were observed
in such review and which have continued
after notice by the committee to the
research entity involved of the violations.
Reports filed under paragraph 13) shall include
any minority views filed by members
of the committee.
"Id) The Administrator shall require each
applicant for a grant, contract, or cooperative
agreement invotuinff research on animals
which is administered by the Administrator
or any agency of the Administration
to include in its application or contract proposal,
submitted after the expiration of the
12-month period beginning on the date of
enactment of this section—
"ID assurances satisfactory to the Administrator
that—
"<A) the applicant meets the requirements
of the guidelines established under paragraph
ID and 12) of subsection (a) and has
an animal care committee which meets Ihe
requirements of subsection ib); and
"IB) scientists, animal technicians, and
other personnel involved with animal care,
treatment, and use by the applicant have
available to them instruction or training in
the humane practice of antraat maintenance
and experimentation, and the concept,
availability, and use of research or testing
methods that limit the use of animals or
limit animal distress; and
"I2> a statement of the reasons for the use
of animals in the research lo be conducted
with funds provided under such grant or
contract
Notwithstanding subsection (a)(2) of section
553 of title 5, United Stales Code, regulations
under this subsection shall be promulgated
in accordance with the notice and
comment requirements of such section.
"le) If the Administrator determines that—
"ID the conditions of animal care, treatment,
or use in an entity which is receiving
a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement
involving research on animals under this
title do not meet applicable guidelines established
under subsection la);
"121 ihe entity has been notified by the Administrator
of such determination and ha^
been given a reasonable opportunity to lake
corrective action; and
"(3) no action has been tafeen by the entity
to correct such conditions;
the Administrator shall stispend or revoke
such grant or contract under such conditions
as the Administrator determines appropriate.
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"ifi No guideline O' regulation promulgated
under subsection lal or leJ may reguire a
research entity to disclose publicly trade secrets
or commercial or financial infyrmalion
which is privileged or confidential
SFC. /«/, TECRNKAL AMESDMENnt
fa> Section 504ie>.—Subsection <e) of section
S04 <42 V.S.C. 2S0aa-3) is amended by
striking out the period at the end of paragraph
(ZHAl and inserting in lieu thereof a
semicolon,
tbi General AuTHORiry.—
m Section 504 (as amended by section
4019) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
"(it The Secretary, acting through the Director,
may make grants to and enter into
cooperative agreements and contracts with
public and nonproAl private entities for research
on mental illness.".
(2) Section 301(a)(3) (42 U.S.C. 241(a)(3))
is amended by striking out "or, in the case
of mental health" and aU that follovis
through "Council;" and by striking out "or
the National Advisory Menial Health Council".
.SEC. 4022. AI.COHOJ.ISN AW ALCOUOL ARVSE
TRBATtSENTSTim.
la) In GENEKAu—The Secretary of Health
and Human Services, acting through the Director
of Die National Institute on Alcohol
^buse and Alcoholism and in accordance
with subsection (b), shall arrange for the
conduct of a study toil)
crilically review available research
knowledge and experience in ifte United
States and other countries regarding alternative
approaches and mechanisms (including
statutory and voluntary mechanisms)
for the provision of alcoholism and alcohol
abuse treatment and rehabilitative services,
12) assess available evidence concerning
comparative costs. gualUy, effectiveness,
and approprialeriess of alcoholism and alcohol
abuse treatment and rehabilitative service
alternatives.
(3) review the state of financing alternatives
available to the public, including an
analysis of policies and experiences of third
party insurers and State and municipal governments,
and
(4) consider and make recommendations
for policies and programs of research, planning.
administration, and reimbursement
for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals
suffering from alcoholism and aclohol
abuse.
( B ) Arsangeuents.—
Ill The Secretary shall request the National
Academy of Sciences to conduct the study
described in subsection (a) under an arrangement
under which the actual expenses
incurred by the Academy in conducling the
study will be paid by the Secretary and with
the consent of the Academy the Secretary
shalienter into such arrangement.
12) Under the arrangement entered into
under paragraph (1). the National Academy
of Sciences shall agree to
(A) conduct the study in consultation uHth
the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, and
( B ) submit to the Secretary not later than
24 months after the date the arrangement is
entered into a final report on the study.
The Secretary shall transmit the final report
of the Academy to Congress not later than 30
days after the date the Secretary receives the
report
Subtitle B—Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act of ISiE
ATC net. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "Drug-
Free Schools and Communilies Act of 19SS".
SEC. 4192. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that-
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HO^E October 17, 1986
(1) Drug abuse education and prevention'. 5EC. 4iii. heseri'ations and state allotments.
programs are essential components of fa) From the sums appropriated or otherrepo,
set.)
comprehensive strategy to reduce the
demand for and use of drugs throughout the
Nalioiu
(2) Drug use and alcohol abuse are widespread
among the Nation's students, not
only in secondary schools, bul increasingly
in elementary schools as well
(3) The use of drugs and the abuse of alcohol
by students constitute a grave threat to
their physical and mental well-being and
significantly impede the learning process.
(4) The tragic consequences of drug use
and alcohol abuse by students are felt not
only by students and their families, bat atso
by their communities and the Nation, which
can ill afford to lose their skills, talents, and
vitality.
•*sf Scfiools and local oTganisations in
wise made available to carry out this subtitle
for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall
reserve-
ID 1 percent for payments to Guam, American
Samoa, the Virgin /stands, the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the
Northern Mariana Islands, to be allotted in
accordance with their respective needs;
(2) I percent for programs for Indian
youth under section 4133;
(3) 0.2 percent for programs for Hawiian
natives under section 4134;
(4) 8 percent for prograins with institutions
of higher education under section
4131:
(5) 3.5 percent for Federal activities under
section 4132; arid
(6) 4.5 percent for regional centers under
communities throughout the Nation havde. action 4135.
special r^ponsibUiHes to work togetfwr l(^ fb)(D From the remainder of the sums not
nserved under subsection (a), the Secretary
shall allot la each State and amount which
bears the same ratio to the amount of such
remainder as the school-age populations of
the Slate bears to the school-age population
of all States, except that no State shall betUloted
less than an amount equal to O.S percent
of such remainder.
12) The Secretary may reaUol any amount
of any allotment to a State to the extent thai
the Secretary determines that the Stale will
not be able to obligate such amount within
tux yeas of aOotmenL Any such reaUotment
shall be made on the same basis as an allotment
under paragraph (D.
(3) For purposes of this subsection, the
term "Slate" means any of the fifty States,
the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
(4) For each fiscal year, the Secretary shall
make pat/ments, as provided by section
6S03(aJ of title 31. United StaUs Code, to
each Stale from its allotment under this subsection
from amounts appropriated for that
fiscal year.
Oth^^- FART 2—STATE AND LOCAL PROaHAMS
SEC. 4121. VSEOFALLOnai.STS BY STATER
combat the scourge of drug use and alcohol
abuse.
^^) Prompt action by our Nation's schools,
/amities, and communities can bring significantly
closer the goal of a drug-free generation
and a drug free society.
SEC. S/ttl Pi'RfrrsE
It is the purpose of this subtitle to establish
programs of drug abuse education and
prevention (coordinated with related community
efforts and resources) through the
provision of Federal financial assistance—
(1) to States for grants to local and intermediate
educational agencies and consortia
to establisK operate, and improve local prograins
of drug abuse prevention, early intervention.
rehabilitation referral, and education
in elementary and secondary schools
finctudinp intermediate and Junior high
schools);
(2) to States for grants to and contracts
with community-based organieations for
programs of drug abuse prevention, early
intervention, rehabilitation referral, and
education for school dropouts and
high-risk youth;
(3) to States for development, training^- amount equal to 30 percent of the
technical assistance, and coordination activities:
(4) to institutions of higher education to
establish, implement, and expand programs
of drug abuse education and prevention (in-
(fiuding rehabilitation referral) for students
enroUed in colleges and universities: and
(5) to institutions of higher education in
cooperation with State and local educational
agencies for teacher training programs in
drug abuse education and prevention.
PART I—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR DRUQ ABVSE
EDVCATION AND PREVENTTON PROORAMS - u
SECJJXL AirHORIZATIONOFAFPROPRIATrO.NS. i
(a) For the purpose of carrying out this "
I subtitle, there are authorised to be appropriated
$200,000,090 for fiscal year 1987 and
$250,000,000 far each of the fiscal years 1988
total amount paid to a Slate from its allotment
under section 4112 for any fiscal year
shall be used by the chief executive officer of
such State for program is accordance with
section 4122.
(b) An amount equal Co 70 percent of the
total amount paid to a State from its allotment
under section 4112 for any fiscal year
shall be used by the Slate educationl agency
to carry out its responsibilities in accordance
with section 4124 and for grants to
local and intermediate educational agencies
and consortia for programs and activities
in accordance with section 4125.
SEC 4122 STATE PROGRAMS
(a) Not more than SO percent of the funds
available for each fiscal year under section
4121(0/ to the chief executive officer of a
'^d i98S. fState shall be used for grants to and con-
<h) Appropriations for any fiscal year for!Jjiacts with local governments and other
payments made under this subtitle in ac- public or private nonprofit entities (includcordance
with regulations of the Secretary ing parent groups, community action agenmay
be made available for obZisrofion or ex- cies, and oplher community-based organieapenditure
by the agency or institution con- Hons) for the develpment and implementacemed
on the basis of on academic or school. --Won of programs and activUies such as—
year differing from such fiscal year. (I) tocat broadly-based programs far drug
( c ) F u n d s a p p r o p r i a t e d f o r a n y f i s c a l y e a r and alcohol abuse prevention, early inter-
, vention, rehabilitation referral, and education
for all age groups;
12) training programs concerning drug
abuse education and prevention for teachers.
counselors, other educational personnel,
parents, local law enforcement officials, judicial
officials, other pubtic service personnel,
and community teoders,'
(3) the development and distribution of
eduootionot and iriformational materials to
under this subtitle shall remain available
for oWiyatlon and expenditure until the end
of the fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year
for which such funds were appropriateiL
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision
of this subtitle, no authority to enter inlo
contracts or financial assistance agreements
under this subtitle shall be effective except
to such extent or in such amounts as are
provided in advance in appropriation Acts.
October 17, 198$ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11257
provide public in/ormation lOirough the
media and otheruhse! for the purpose of
achieving a drug-free society;
<4) technical assistance to help community-
t>ased organizations and local and intermediate
educational agencies and consortia
in the planning and implementation of drug
abuse prevention, early intervention, rehabilitation
referral and education programs;
tSl activities to encourage the coordination
of drug o^u^e education and prevention
program with related community efforts and
resources, which may tnt-oiue the use of a
broadly representative State advisory council
including members of the State board of
education, members of local boards of education,
parents, teachers, counselors, health
and social service professionals, and others
having special interest or expertise; and
161 other drug abuse education and prevention
activities, consistent uriCh the purposes
of this subtitle.
Ibiiii Not less than SO percent of the funds
available for each fiscaJ year under section
41Zl<ai to the chief executive officer of a
State shall 6e used for innovative community-
based programs of coordinated services
for high-risk youth. The chief executive officer
of such State shall make grants to or
contracts with local governments and other
public ond private nonprofit entiles iincZuding
parent groups community action agencies,
and other community-based organizations!
to carry oui sucft services.
(2! For purposes of this subsection, the
term "high risk youth" means an individual
who has not attained the age of 21 years,
who is at high risk of becoming or who has
been a drug or alcohol abuser, and who—
tA! is a school dropout'
'B! has become pregnant;
<C! is economically disadvantaged;
(Dl is Ihe child of a drug or alcohol abuser;
(E! is o viciim of physical sexual or psychological
abuse;
(F! has committed a violent or delinquent
act;
IG! has experienced mental heallfi probterns;
(HI has attempted suicide; or
(II has experienced long-term physical
pain due to iru'ury.
SEC. ins. STATE AFPUCATlOkS.
(al In order to receive an allotmeni under
section 4112(bl, o State shall submit an application
to the Secretary. As part of such
application, ihe chief executive officer of the
State shall agree to use the funds made
available under section ilZUa! in accordance
with the requirements of this part As
part of such application, the Stale educational
agency of Ihe State shall agree to use
the funds made available under section
4lZl(bl in accordance with the requirements
of this pari
(bl The application submitted by each
State under subsection (at shall—
(II cover a period of £Aree/iscoZ years:
(2! be submitted at such lime and in such
manner, and contain such iriformation, as
the Secretary may require;
(31 contain assurances that the Federal
funds made available under this part for
any period will be so used as to supplement
and increase the level of State, local, and
non-Federal funds that would in the absence
of such Federal funds be made available for
the proprains ond activities for which funds
are provided under this part and will in no
event supplant such State, local, and other
non-Federal funds;
(4! provide that Ihe State will keep such
records and provide such information as
may be required by the Secretary for fiscal
audit and program evaluation;
(SI contain assurances that there is compliance
with the specific requirements of
this part;
j 161 describe the manner in which the State
\educational agency will coordinate its efhorts
with appropriate State health, law enfforcement,
and drug abuse prevention agencies,
including the State agency which ad-
I ministers the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
I Menial Health block grant under part B of
jtitte XIX of the Public Health Service i4cf
'r~+7> provide assurances that the Stale edu-
\cational agency will provide financial as-
' sjsfance under this pari only to local and intermediate
educational agencies and consorr
tia which establish and implement drug
\abuse education and prevention programs
;in elementary and secondary schools; and
• (St provide for an onnuat evaluation of
the effectiveness of programs assisted under
this part
SEC, list. HESPONSlBILniES OF STATE SDVCATIONAL
AOESCIES.
(at Each State educational agency shall
use a sum which shall be not less than 90
percent of the amounts available under section
4121(bl for each fiscal year for grants to
local and intermediate educational agencies
and consortia in the Stale, in accordance
with applications approved under section
4126. From such sum, the Slate educational
agency shall distribute funds for use among
areas served by local or intermediate educiional
agencies or consortia on the basis of
the relative numbers of children in the
school-age population within such areas.
Any amount of the funds made available for
use in any area remaining unobligated for
more than one year after the funds were
made available may be provided by the State
educational agency to local or intermediate
educational agencies or consortia having
plans for programs or activities capable of
using such amount on a timely basis.
(bl Each State educational agency shall
use not more than 10 percent of the amounts
available under section 4121(bl for each
fiscal year for such activities as—
(II training and technical assistance programs
concerning drug abuse education and
prevention for local and intermediate educational
agencies, inciudtnp teachers, administrators,
athletic directors, other educational
personnel, parents, local law enforcement
officials, andfudicial officials.
(2) the development, dissemination, imptementation,
and evaluation of drug abuse
education curricular and teaching moteriois
for elementary and secondary schools
throughout the State;
(31 demonstration projects in drug abuse
education and prevention;
(H special financial assistance to enhance
resources available for drug abuse education
and prevention in areas serving large numbers
of economically disadvantaged children
or sparsely populated areas, or to meet special
needs: and
(SI administrative costs of the State educational
agency in carrying out its responsibilities
under this part, not in excess of 2.S
percent of the amount available under section
412I(bl.
.SEC lliS. LOCAL DKVG ABV.SE EDUCATION AND PREVENTiON
PROGRAMS.
(al Any amounts made available to local
or intermediate educational agencies or
consortia under section 4124(al shall be
used for drug and alcohol abuse prevention
and education programs and activities including—
(II the development, acquisition, and implementation
of elementary and secondary
school drug abuse education and'preventian
curricula which clearly and consistently
teach that illicit drug use is wrong and
harmful;
(21 school-based programs of drug abuse
prevention and early intervention tother
than treatmcnti;
(3) family drug abuse prevention prograrns,
including education for parents to
increase awareness about the symptoms and
effects of drug use through the development
and dissemination of appropriate educational
materials;
(41 drug abuse prevention counseling programs
(which counsel that illicil drug use is
wrong and harmJuH for students and parents,
including professional and peer counselors
and involving the parlicpation (where
appropriate! of parent or other adult counselors
and reformed abusers;
(SI programs of drug abuse treotment ond
rehobi/itation referral;
(61 programs of inservice and preservlce
training in drug and alcohol abuse prevention
for teachers, counselors, other educational
personnel, athletic directors, public
service personnel, law enforcement officials,
judicial officials, and community leaders;
(71 programs in primary prevention and
early intervention, such as the itnerdisciplinary
school-team approach;
(81 community education programs and
other activities to involve parents and communities
in the fight against drug and atcohoi
abuse;
(9! public education prograrns on drug
and alcohol abuse, including programs utilizing
professionals and former drug and alcohol
abusers;
(101 on-site efforts in schools to enhance
idenlificaiton and discipline of drug and alcohol
abusers, and lo enable law enforcement
officials to take necessary action in
cases of drug possession and supplying od
drugs and alcohol to the student population:
(111 special programs and activilies lo
prevent drug and alcohol abuse among student
athletes, involving their parents and
family in such drug and alcohol abuse prevention
efforts and using athletic programs
and personnel in pret}enting drug and alcohol
abuse among all students; and
(121 other programs of drug and alcohol
abuse education and prevention, consistent
with the purposes of this port
(bl A local or itnermediate educational
agency or consortium may receive funds
under this part for any fiscal year coiered
by an application under section 4126 approved
by the Slate educational agency.
SEC Hit LOVAL AFPUCATIONS.
(aim In order to be eligible to receive a
grant under this part for any fiscal year, a
local or intermediate educational agency or
consortium shall submit an application to
the Slate educational agency for approval
(21 An application under this section shall
be for a period not to exceed 3 fiscal years
and may be amended annually as may be
necessary to reflect changes without filing o
new application. Such application shaU-~
(Al set forth a comprehensive plan for programs
to be carried out by the applicant
under this part;
(Bl contain an estimate of the cost for the
establishment and operation of such programs;
(CI establish or designate a local or substale
regional advisory council on drug
abuse education and prevention composed
Of individuals who are parents, teachers, officers
of Stale and local government, medical
professionals, represeniatives of the law
enforcement community, community-based
organizations, and other groups with interest
and expertise in the field of drug abuse
education and prevention;
(D) describe t h e manner i n which t h e applicant
will establish, implement, or augment
mandatory age-appropriate, developmentally-
based, drug abuse education and
prevention programs for students throughout
all grades of the schools operated or
served by the applicant (from the early
H 11258 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17. 1986
childhood level throwrh grade 12). and provide
assuranoes that the applicant enforces
related rvles and regulations of student conduct:
IE) describe the manner in which the applicant
toill coordinate its efforts under this
part with other progmns in the communitg
related to drug dftuse education, prevention,
treatment, and rekabUilation;
iF> provides assurances that the applicant
will coordinate its efforts appropriate
State and local drug and alcohol abuse,
health, and law erifoTcement agencies, in
order to effectively eo-aduct drug and alcohol
abuse education, inleroenttan, and referral
for treatment and rehabiUtation for the
student population;
(G) provide assurances that £h« Federal
funds made avaUahle under this part shall
be used to supplement and, to the extent
practical, to increase the level of funds that
would, in the absence of such Federal funds,
be made available by the applicant for the
purposes described in this part, and in no
case supplant such funds;
tH) proride assurances of compliance
with the provisions of this pari;
(I) agree to keep such records and provide
such information to the State educational
apency as reasonably may be reguired for
fiscoX audit and program evaluation, consistent
with the responsibilities of the State
agemcy under this part: and
fj) include such other information and assurances
as the State educational agency
reasonably determines to be necessary.
PART t—RATIONAL PROORAMS
SIX. 1131. CSANTS TO /.VSTTTlTVav.? OF HWnSR
EOVCATIOS.
tdUl) From sums reserved by the Secretary
under section 4H2lall4) for the purposes of
this section, the Secretary shall make grants
to or enter into contracts with institutions
of higher education or consortia of such institutions
for drug abuse education and prevention
programs under this section.
12) The Secretary shall make financial assistance
available on a competitive basis
under this section. An institution of higher
education or consortium of such institutions
which desires to receive a grant or
enter into a eontmct under this section shall
submit an application to the Secretary at
such time. In such manner, and containing
or accompanied by such iTtformation as the
Secretary may reasonably require in accordance
with regulations.
(3) The Secretary shall make eiery effort to
ensure the equitable participation of private
and pu6tle institutions of higher education
/including community and junior colleges)
and to ensure the equitable geographic participation
of such institutions. In the award
of grants and contracts under this section,
the Secretory shall give appropriate consideration
to eoUepes and univertiCies of limited
enrollment
19) Not less Ihcn Sd percent of sums ovoilaWe/
or the purposes of this section shall be
used to make grants under subsection <d).
fb) Training grants shall be available for—
11) presertice and inservlce troininp and
inslruction of teachers end other personnel
in the field of drug abuse eduoation ond prevention
in elementary and secondary
schools,'
ft) summer institutes and workshops in
irtstruction in the field of drug ebuie education
ond preuention;
13) research and demonstration programs
for teacher training and retraining in drug
abuse education and preueTillon,'
14) training programs for law enforcement
officials, Judicial o^heiois. commuily iMders.
porents, ond government officials.
ic) Grants shall be available for model
demonstration programs to be coordinated
with local elementary and secondary schools
for the development and implementation of
quality drug abuse education curricula. In
the award of grants under this subsection,
the Secretary shall give priority consideration
to joint projects involving faculty of
institutions of higher education and teachers
in elementary and secondary schools in
the practical application of the findings of
educational research and evaluation and
the integration of such research into drug
abuse education ond prevention programs.
Id) Grants shall be available under this
subsection to develop, implement, operate,
and improve programs of drug oSuse education
and prevention /including nshoWIifotion
referral) for students enrolled in institutions
of higher education.
let In making grants under paragraphs lit
and 12) of subsection lb), the Secretary shall
encourage projects which provide for coordinated
and collaborative efforts between
Slate educational aoencies, local educational
agencies, and reshonal centers established
under section 4J3S.
S f C Siii FEDERAL ACTmTIES.
la) From sums reserved by the Secretary
under section 4212la)fS), the Secretary shall
carry out the purposes of this sectioru
lb) The Secretary of Education in conjunction
with the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall carry out Federal education
and prevention activities on drug
abuse.
The Secretary shall coordinate such drug
abuse education and prevention activities
with other appropriate Federal activities related
to drug abuse. The Secretary shall—
ID provide information on drug abuse
education and prevention to the Secretary
of Health and Human Servcies for dissemination
by the clearinghouse for alcohol and
drug abuse information established under
section S69 of the Public Health Service Act
las amended by this Act);
12) facilitate the utilisation of appropriate
means of communicating to students at all
educational levels ahout the daripers of drug
use and alcohol abuse, especially involving
the participating of entertainment personalities
and athletes who are recognisable role
models for many young people;
13) develop, pubiiciee the availability of.
and widely disseminate audio-visual and
other curricular materials for drug abuse
education and prevention programs in elementary
and secondary schools throughout
the Nation;
14) provide technical assistance to Stale,
local, and intermediate education agencies
and consortia in the selection and implementation
of drug abuse education and prevention
curricula, approaches, and programs
to address most effectively the needs
of the elementary and secondary schools
served by such agencies; and
15) identify research and development priorities
with regard to school-based drug
abuse education and prevention, particularly
age-appropriate programs focusing on
kindergarten through grade 4.
Ic) From the funds available to carry out
this section, the Secretary shall make available
SSOO.OOO to the Secretary of Health and
Human Services for the clearinghouse established
under section 503 of the Public Health
Service Act las amended this Act).
Id) The Secretory of Education in conjunction
with the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall conduct, directly or
bp contract, a study of the nature and effectiveness
of existing Federat State, and local
programs of drug abuse education and prevention
and shaU submit a report of the
findings of such study to the President and
to the appropriate committees of the Congress
not later fhon one yeor after the date
of the enactment of this Act
SBC. 4/33. fsorau.w! FOR INDIA,\ YOITH.
lajll) From the funds reserved pursuant to
section 4ll2la)l2J, the Secretary shall make
payments and grants and enter into other financial
arrangements for Indian programs
in accordance with this subsection.
12) The Secretary of Education shall enter
into such financial arrangements as the Secretary
determines will best carry out the
purposes of this title to meet the needs of
Indian children on reservations serviced by
elementary and secondary schools operated
for Indian children by the Department of the
Interior. Such arrangements shall be made
pursuant to an agreement between the Secretary
of Education and the Secretary of the
Interior containing such assurances and
terms as they determine will best achieve the
purposes of this title.
13) The Secretary of Education may. upon
request of any Indian Iribe which is eligible
to contract with the Secretary of the Interior
far the administration of programs under
the Indian Self-Delemination Act or under
the Act of April IS. 1334, enter into grants or
contracts with any tribal organieation of
any such Indian tribe to plan, conduct, and
administer pTograms which are authorised
and consistent with the purposes of this title
Iparticulaiiy programs for Indian children
who are soliool dropouts), except thai such
grants or contracts shall be subject to the
terms and conditions of section 102 of the
Indian Self-Detemination Act and shall be
conducted in accordance with sections 4, 5,
and e of the Act of April IB. 1934. tohich are
relevant to the programs administered
under this paragraph.
14) Programs funded under (his subsection
shall be in addition to such other programs,
services, and activities as are made available
to eligible Indians under other provisions
of this subtitle.
ibJil) Section 304 of Che Indian Elementary
and Secondary School Assistance Act 120
V.S.C. 241CC) is amended by—
IA) striking out "and" at the end o^poraprapft
ID;
IB) strijcing out the period at the end of
paragraph 12) and inserting in lieu there^
and"; and
IC) adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
"13) the training of counstiors at schools
eligible for funding under this title in counseling
techniques relevant to the treatment
of alcohol and substance abuse.".
12) Section 423 of the Indian Education
Act (20 U.S.C. 33SSb) is amended—
IA) in subsection la), by inserting "clinical
psychology." after "medicine,arid
IB) by adding at the end of the section the
following new subsection:
"lel Not more than 10 percent of the fellowships
awarded under subsection la) shaU
be awarded, on a priority basis, to persons
receiving training in guidance counseling
vAth a specialty in the area of alcohol and
subsiance abuse counseling and education.".
(3) Section 1121 of the Education Amendments
of 1379 is omended by addinp at the
end the following new subsection:
"fi)lD All schools funded by the Bureau of
Indian ACfairs shall include within their
curriculum a program of instruction relating
to alcohol and subsiance abuse prevention
and treatment. The Assistant Secretary
shall provide the technical assistance necessary
to develop and implement such a program
for students in kindergarten and
grades 1 throush 12, at the request of—
"IA> any Bureau of Indian Affairs school
(subject to the approval of the school board
of such school): or
"IB) any school board of a school operating
under a contract entered into under the
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 11259
Inilian Sel/-De(ermination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. i50etseg.).
"121 In schools operated direMy by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Secretary
shall, not later than 120 days after the date
of the enactment of this subsection, provide
for—
"(A! accurate reporting of all incidents relating
to alcoltol and substance abuse: and
"(B> individual student crisis intervention.
"(3/ The programs requested under paragraph
11) shall be developed in consultation
with the Indian tribe that is to be served by
such program and health personnel in the
local community of such tribe.
"(4) Schools requesting program assistance
under this subsection are encouraged
to involve family units and, where appropriate.
tribal elders and Native healers in such
instructions."
<4) Section 1129 of the Educational
Amendments of I97S is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
"'eXlJ A financial plan under subsection
'bJ for a school may Include, at the discretion
cf the local administrator and the
school bodrd of such school, a provision for
a summer program of academic and support
semices for students of the schooL Any such
program may include activities related to
the prevention of alcohol and substance
abuse. The Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs
shall provide for Che utUieation of any
such school facility during any summer in
which such ulitiealion is requested.
"(2) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law. funds authorized under the Act of
April IS. 1934 '25 V.S.C. 452 et seq.) and the
Indian Education Act may be used to augment
the services provided in each summer
program at the option, and under the control.
of the tribe or Indian controlled school
receiving such funds
"(3) The A.ssistant Secretary of Indian Affairs.
acting through the Director of the
Office of Indian Srfuoiion Programs, shall
provide technical assistance and coordination
for any program described in parograph
(!) and shall, la the extent possible,
encourage the coordination of such programs
with any other summer programs
thai might benefit tndlan youth, regardless
of the funding source or administrative
entity of any such proyram.
sf:r. 4/.U. PRiHiK.iMs iDR PsHAiiA.y .\AnrES.
(a) From the funds reserved pursuant to
section 4!I2la>i3>, the Secretary shall enter
into contracts with organizations primarily
serving and representing Hawaiian natives
vihich are recognized by the Governor of the
Slate of Hawaii to plan, conduct, and administer
programs, or portions thereof,
which are authorized by and consistent with
the provisions of this subtitle far the benqftt
of Haieaiian na/ities-
(b) For the purposes of this section, the
term "Hawaiian native" means any individual
any of whose ancestors were natives,
prior to 177S, of the area which now comprises
the State of Hawaii.
•sue. 4ISS. CEWEKS.
The Secretary shall use Che amounts made
available to carry out this section for each
fiscal year to maintain 5 regional centers
to—
III train school teams Co assess the scope
and nature of their drug abuse and alcohol
abuse problems, mobilize the community to
address such problems, design appropriate
curricula, identify students at highest risk
and refer them to appropriate treatment,
and inslilutionalize long term effective drug
and alcohol abuse programs, inciudtnc long
range technlcaf assistance, cca/uation, and
foUowup on such training;
121 assist Slate educational agencies in coordinating
and slrenglhening drug abuse
and alcohol abuse education and prevention
programs;
(3) assist local educational agencies and
institutions of higher educolion in deretoping
appropriate pre-service and in-service
training programs for educational personnel;
and
14) evaluate and disseminate information
on effective drug abuse and alcohol abuse
education and prevention programs and
strategies.
PART 4—OENeiiAL PRO VISIOKS
SEC. 1141. DEfiyiTIOSS.
(a) £xcept as otherwise provided, the
terms used in this subtitle shall have the
meaning provided under section 595 of the
Education Consolidation and Improvement
Actof 19S1.
lb) For the purposes of this subtitle, the
following terms have the following meanings:
ID The term "drug abuse education and
prevention" means prevention, eariy intervention,
rehabilitation referral, and education
related to the abuse of alcdiol and the
use and abuse of controlled, illegal, addictive,
or harmful substances.
12) The term "iUicil drug use" means the
use of illegal drugs and the abuse of other
drugs and alcohol
(3) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary
of Education.
(4) The term "school-age population"
means the population aged five through seventeen
itnclusive). as determined by the Secretary
on the basis of the most recent satisfactory
data available from the Department
of Commerce.
15) The term "school dropout" means an
individual aged five through eighteen who is
not attending any school and who has not
received a secondary school diploma or a
certificate from a program of equivalency
for such a diploma.
16) The term "State" means a State, the
District of Columbia. Puerto Rico. Guam,
American Samoa, the tVorthem Marina Islands.
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
or the Virgin Islands.
171 The terms "institution of higher education",
"secondary school", and "nonprofit"
have the meanings provided in section lOOt
of the E/emeiitory ond Secondary Education
Act of 1965 in effect prior to October i, 1981.
IS) The term "consortium" (except in section
4131) means a consortium of local educational
agencies or of one or more intermediate
educational agencies and one or more
local educational agencies.
SEC. im. riMTIOSS OP THE SECRETARY OF EM:.
CATIIIY.
la) The Secretary shall be responsible for
the administration of the programs authorized
by this subtitle.
(b) Except as otherwise provided, the General
Education Provisions Act shall apply to
programs authorized by this subtitle.
SEC. 4I4S. PARTICIPATION OF CHILNREN AND
TEACHERS FRO.H PRIVATE NO.VPRHFIT
SCHOOLS.
la) To the extent consistent with the
number of school-age children in the Stale
or in the school attendance area of a Zocat or
intermediate educational agency or consortium
receiidng financial assistance under
part 2 who are enrolled in private nonproAt
elementary and secondary schools, such
State, agency, or consortium shall, after consultation
loitft appropriate private school
representatives, make provision for including
services and arrangements for the benefit
of such children as will assure the equitable
participation of suctt children in the
purposes and benefits of ttiis subtitle
lb) To the extent consistent with the
number of school-age children in the State
or in the sctioot attendance area of a local or
intermediate educational agency or consortium
receiving financial assistance under
part 2 who are enrolled in private nonprofit
elementary and secondary schools, such
State, State educational agency, or Slate
agency for higher education shall, after consultation
with appropriate private school
representatives, make provision, for the benefit
of such teachers in such schools, for sucA
teacher training as will assure equitable
participation of such teachers in the purposes
and benefits of this sublille.
Ic) If by reason of any provision of law a
State, tocat, or intermediate educational
agency or consortium is prohibited from
providing for the participation of children
or teachers from private nonprofit scAoots
as required by subsections la) and ib) or, if
the Secretary determines tAat a State, local,
or intermediate educational agency or consortium
has substantially failed or is unwilling
to provide for such participation on cn
efluitabte basis, the Secretary shall waive
such requirements and shall arrange for the
provision of services to such children or
teachers which shall be subject to tAe requirements
of this section. Such waivers
shall be subject to consultation, withholding,
notice, and judicial review requiremenls
in accordance with paragraphs 13)
and 14) of section S57fbJ of the Education
Consolidation and Improvement Act of
1981.
SEC 4141. MATERIALS.
Any materials produced or distributed
with funds made available under this subtitle
shall reflect the message tAat illicit
drug use is wrong and harmfuL The Secretary
shall not review curricula and shall not
promulgate regulations to carry out this
subsection or subparagraph ID or <4) of section
4l25/a).
SuHitle C—Indians and Alaska NaSiees
SEC 4:fl. SHORT TITLE
This subtitle may be cited as the 'Indian
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention
and Treatment Act of 1986".
PART l—UENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 4194. nNDi.sas.
The Congress finds and declares that—
ID the Federal Government has a historical
relationship and unique legal and moral
responsibility to Indian tribes and their
members,
(2/ included in this responsibility is the
treaty, statutory, and historical obligation
to assist the Indian tiibes in meeting the
health and social needs of their members.
13) alcoholism arid alcohol and substance
abuse is the most severe health and social
problem facing Indian tribes and people
today and nothing is more costly to Indian
people than Che consequences of alcohol and
substance abuse measured in physical,
mental, social and economic terms,
(4) alcohol and substance abuse is the
leading generic risk factor among Indians,
and Indians die from alcoholism at over 4
times the age-adjitsted rates for the United
States population and alcohol and substance
misuse results in a rate of years of
potenfiat life lost nearly 5 times that cf the
United States,
151 4 of the top 10 causes of death among
Indians are atcoAot and drug related injuries
H8 percent of all deaths), cAronic liver
disease and cirrhosis IS percent), suicide (3
percent), and homicide <3 percent),
161 primarily because deaths from unintentional
injuries and niofence occur disproportionately
among young people, the agespecific
death rate for /ndions is approximately
double tAe United States rate for the
IS to 45 age group,
( 7 ) I n d i a n s between tAe ages of 15 and 24
years of age are more than 2 times as likely
H11260 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17. 1986
to commit suicide as the general population
and approximately 80 percent oj those suicides
are alcohol-related.
<8! iTidians betioeen the ages of 15 and Z4
years of age are twice as likely as the general
population to die in automobile accidents,
75 percent of which are alcohol-related,
I9J the Indian Health Service, which is
charged with treatment and rehabilitation
efforts, has directed only I percent of its
budget for alcohol and substance abuse
problems,
not the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which
has responsibility for programs in education,
social services, law enforcement, and
other areas, has assumed little respoTisibility
far coordinating its various efforts to focus
on the epidemic of alcohol and substance
abuse among Indian people,
111) this lack of empftosis and priority
continues despite the fact that Bureau of
Indian Affairs ond Indian Health Service
offtcials publicly acknowledge that afcoiioJ
and substance abuse among Indians is the
most serious health and social problem
facing the Indian people, and
112) the Indian tribes have the primary responsibility
for protectfnsr and ensuring the
well-being of their members and the resources
made available under this subtitle
will assist Indian tribes in meeting that responsibility.
SUE: ISOS. PI'RPI/SB.
It is the purpose of this subtitle toll)
authorize and develop a comprehensive.
coordinated attack upon the illegal
narcotics traffic in Indian country and the
deleterious impact of alcohol and substance
abuse upon Indian tribes and their members,
12) provide needed direction and guidance
to those Federal agencies responsible for
Indian programs to identify and focus existtng
programs and resources, including those
made available by this subtitle, upon this
problem,
13) provide authority and opportunities
for Indian tribes to develop and implement
a coordinated program for the prevention
and treot'Tient of alcohol and substance
abuse at the local level, and
14) to modify or snppteinent eiistinp programs
and authorities in the areas of education,
family and social services, law enforcement
and Judicial services, and health services
to further the purposes of this subtiUe.
HEV, 4204. i)i:ri,ymo\s.
For purposes of this subtitle-
ID The term "agency" means the local administrative
entity of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs serving one or more Indian tribes
Within a defined geographic area.
12) The term "youth" shall have the meaning
given it in any particular Tribal Action
Plan adopted pursuant to section 4205,
except that, for purposes of statistical reporting
under this subtitle, it shall mean o
person who is 19 years or younger or who is
in attendance at a secondary school,
13) The term "Indian tribe" means any
Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized
group or community of Indians tineluding
any Alaska Native village or regional
or village corporation as defined in, or established
pursuant to. the Alaska Native
Claims SetUe.menl Act 143 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq, 1/ which is recotmieed as eligible for special
programs and sendees provided by the
United Slates to Indians because of their
status as Indians.
(4) The term "precention and treatment"
includes, as appropriate—
lA) efforts to identify, and the identificalion
of, Indians who are at risk with respect
to. or who are abusers of, alcohol or controlled
substances.
IB) intenrenCion into cases of on-going alcohol
and substance abuse to halt a further
progression of such abuse,
IC) prevention through education and the
provision of alternative activities,
ID) treatment for alcohol and substance
abusers to help abstain from, and alleviate
the effects of, abuse.
fE) rehttbilitalion to provide on-going assistance,
either on an inpatient or outpatient
basis, to help Indians reform or abstain
from alcohol or substance abase,
IF) follow-up or after-care to provide the
appropriate counseling and assistance on
an outpatient basis, and
IG) referral to other sources of assistance
or resources.
15) The term "service unit" means an administrative
entity icithin the Indian
Health Service or a tribe or tribal organization
operating health care programs or facilities
with funds from the Indian Health
Service under the Indian Self-Determination
Act through which the services are provided,
directly or by contract, to the eligible Indian
population within a defined geographic
area,
PA KTII—COORDINA TION OF RESOURCES
A.VD PROGRAMS
SEC, 42SS ISTER-DEPARTMENTAL RE.HORA.IDVM OF
AUREENENT,
la) IN GestRAL.-Noi later than 120 days
after the date of enaclynent of this subtitle,
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary
of Health and Huma-n Services shall develop
and enter into a Memorandum of
Agreement which shall, among other
things-
ID determine and define the scope of the
problem of alcohol and substance abuse for
Indian tribes and their members and its financial
and human costs, and specifically
identify such problems affecting Indian
youth,
12) identify—
(A) the resources and programs of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health
Service, and
IB) other Federal, tribal. State and local
and private resources and programs,
which would be relevant to a coordinated
effort to combat alcohol and substance
abuse among Indian people, including those
programs and resources made available by
this subtitle,
13) develop and establish appropriate minimum
standards for each apencji's program
responsibilities under the Memorandum of
Agreement which may be—
IA) the existing Federal or State standards
in effect, or
IB) in the absence of such standards, new
standards which will be developed and established
in consuttation with Indian tribes,
14) coordinate the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and Indian Health Service alcohol and
substance abuse programs existing on the
date of the enactrnent of this subtitle with
prograrns or efforts established by this subtitle,
15) delineate the responsibilities of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian
Health Service to coordinate alcohol and
substance abuse-related services at the central,
area, agency, and service unit levels,
18) direct Bureau of Indian Affairs agency
and education superintendents, where appropriate.
and the Indian Health Service
service unit directors to cooperate fully with
tribal requests made pursuant to section
4206, and
17) provide for an annual review of such
agreements by the Secretary of Die Interior
and the Secretary of Health and Human
Services,
lb) CHARACrER OF ACTIVITIES.—To the
extent that there are new activities undertaken
pursuant to this subtitle, those activities
shall supplement, not supplant, activities,
programs, and local actions that are
ongoing on the date of the enactment of this
subtitle. Such activities shall be undertaken
in the manner least disruplUye to tribal control,
in accordance with the Indian Self-Determination
and Education Assistance Act
125 U.S.C, 450 el seq.). and local control, in
accordance with section 1130 of the Education
Amendments of 1978 125 U.S.C. 2010).
. Ic) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of the Interior
and the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall, in developing the
Memorandum of Agreement under subsection
la), consult with and solicit the comments
of—
ID interested Indian tribes,
12) Indian individuals,
13) Indian organizations, and
14) professionals in the treatment of alcohol
and substance abuse.
Id) PUBLICATION.—The Memorandum of
Agreement under subsection la) shall be submitted
to Congress and pubtisfted in the Federal
Register not later than 130 days after
the dale of enactment of this subtitle. At the
same time as publication in the Federal
Register, the Secretary of the Interior shall
provide a copy of this subtitle and tAe
Memorandum of Agreement under subsection
la) to each Indian tribe,
SEC. 420$. TRIBAL ACTION FLA,\S.
la) IN GENERAL.—The governing body of
any Indian tribe may. at its discretion,
adopt a resolution for the establishment of a
Tribal Action Plan to coordinate available
resources and programs, including programs
and resources made available by this subtitle,
in an effort to combat alcohol and substance
abuse among its members. Such resolution
shall be the basis far the implementation
of this subtxUe and of the Memorandum
of Agreement under section 4205,
lb) COOPERATION.—At the request of any
Indian tribe pursuant to a resolution adopted
under subsection la), the Bureau of
Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents.
where appropriate, and the
Indian Health Service service unit director
providing services to such tribe shall cooperate
with the tribe in the development of a
Tribal ,4ction Plan to coordinate resources
and projirams reteiiant to alcohol and substance
abuse prevention and treatme7it.
Upon the development of such a plan, such
superintendents and director, as directed by
the Memorandum of Agreement established
under section 4205, shall enter into on
agreement with the tribe for the tmpiementalion
of the Tribal Action Plan under subsection
la),
I c ) PROVISIONS,—
ID Any Tribal 4ction Plan entered into
under subsection lb) shall provide for—
lA) the establishment of a Tribai Coordinating
Committee which shall—
li) at a minimum, have as members a
tribal representative who shall serve as
Chairman and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
agency and education superintendents,
where appropriate, and the Indian Health
Service service unit director, or their representatives.
Hi) have primary responsibility for the implementation
of the Tribal Action Plan,
Hii) have the responsibility for on-going
review and evaluation of, and the making of
recommendations to the tribe relating to,
the Tribal Action Plan, and
H v ) h a v e t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r s c h e d u l i n g
federot, triboi or other personnel for training
in the prevention and treatment c^atcoftot
and substance abuse among Indians os
provided under section 4228, and
October 17,1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 11261
(B) the incorporaiion of the minimum
ttandards for those programs and services
which it encompasses which shall beat
the Federal or State standards as provided
in section 4205fa)(3t, or
av applicable tribal standards, if such
standards are no less stringent than the Federal
or State standards.
IZ) Any Tribal Action Plan may, among
other things, provide for—
(A! an assessment of the scope of the problem
of alcohol and substance abuse for the
Indian tribe which adopted the resolution
for the Plan,
(2> the identification and coordination of
available resources and programs relevant
to a program of alcohol and substance abuse
prevention and treatment,
13) the establishment and prioritisation of
goals and the efforts needed to meet those
goats, and
(4) the identification of the community
and family roles in any of the efforts undertaken
as part of the Tribal Action Plan.
Id) GRANTS.—H) The Secretary of the Interior
may make grants to Indian tribes
adopting a resolution pursuant to srUiseclion
la) to provide technical assistance in
the development of a Tribal Action Pian
The Secretary shall allocate funds based on
need.
12) There is auOiorised to be appropriated
not to exceed H.OOO.OOQ for each of the fiscal
year I9S7. 1S88, and 1989 for grants under
this subsection
le) FSDERAL ACTION.—If any Indian tribe
does not adopt a resolution as provided in
subsection (a) within 90 days after the publication
of the Memorandum of Agreement
in the Federal Register as provided in section
4205. ike Secretary of the Interior and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall require the Bureau of Indian Affairs
agency and education superinten^nls,
where appropriate, and the Indian Health
Service sertiiee unit director serving such
tribe to enter into an agreement to identify
and coordinate available programs and resources
to carry out the purposes Of this subtitle
for such tribe. After such an agreement
has been entered info for a tribe such tribe
may adopt a resolution under subsection
la).
SEC. 4291. DEPAHTHEyVAL RESPONSIBILirr.
la) lupLSMENTATioN.—The Secretary of the
Interior, acting through the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, acting through the
Indian Health Service, shall bear equal responsibility
for the implementation of this
subtitle in cooperation with Indian tribes.
lb) OFFICE or ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE
ABUSE.-
ID In order to better coordinate the iiarious
programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
in carrving out this subtitle, there is established
within the Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Indian Affairs on Office of Alcohol
and Substance Abuse. The direcior of
such office shall be appointed by the Assistant
Secretary on a permanent basis at no
less than a grade GS-15 of the General
Schedule.
IZ) In addition Co other responsibilities
which may be assigned to such Oji^ce. it
shall be responsible for—
IA) monitoring the performance and compliance
of programs of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in meeting the goals and purposes of
this subtitle and the Memorandum ^Agreement
entered into under section 4205. ond
IB) serving as a point of contact within
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Indian
tribes and the Tribal Coordinating Committees
regarding the iniplemenCalion of this
subtitle, the Memorandum of Agreement,
and any Tribal Action Plan established
under section 4206.
ic> INDIAN YOUTH PROORAHS OFFICER.—
H) There is established in the Office of Alcohol
and Substance Abuse the position to
be known as the Indian Youth Programs Officer.
12) The position of Indian Youth Programs
Officer shall be established on a permanent
basis at no less than Che grade of
GS-t4 of the General Schedule.
13) In addition to other responsibilities
which may be assigned to the Indian Youth
Programs Officer relating to Indian Youth,
such Officer shall be responsible for—
IA) monitoring the performance and compliance
of programs of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in meeting the goals and purposes of
this subtitle and the Memorandum of Agreement
entered into under section 4205 as they
relate to Indian youth efforts, and
IB) providing advice and recommendations,
including recommendalions submitted
by Indian tribes and Tribai Coordinating
Committees, to the Director of the Office
of Alcohol and Substance Abuse as they
relate to Indian youth.
.SEC. 420S. CO.yGRESSIONAL INTENT.
It is the intent of Congress that—
ID specific Federal laws, and administrative
regulations promulgated thereunder, establishing
programs of Che Bureau of Indian
i4^airs, the Indian Health Service, and other
Federal agencies, and
<2) general Federal laws, including laws
limiting augmentation of Federal appropriations
or encouraging joint or cooperative
funding.
shall be liberally construed and administered
to achieve the purposes of this subtitle,
SRC. 42M. FEDERAL FACILITIES. PROPERTY. AND
EqlTPMENT.
la/ FACILITV AVAiLABiuTY.—ln the furtherance
of the purposes and goals of this subtitle,
the Secretary of the Interior and yie
Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall make available for community use, to
the extent permitted by law and as may be
provided in a Tribal Action Plan, local Federal
facilities, property, and equipment, including
school facilities. Sucb/aciiiiv availability
shall include school facilities under
the Secretary of the Interior's jurisdiction:
Provided, That the use of any school facilities
shall be conditioned upon approval of
the local school board with jurisdiction over
such school.
Ibl COSTS.—Any additional cost associated
with the use of Federal facilities, property,
or equipment under subsection la) may be
borne by the Secretary of the Interior and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services
out of ovat^Qbie Federal, tribal. State, local,
or private funds, if not otherwise prohibited
by law. This subsection does not require the
Secretarjf of the Interior nor the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to expend additional
funds to meet the additional costs
which may be associated with the provision
of such facilities, property, or equipment for
community use. Where the use of Federal facilities,
property, or equipment under subsection
la) furthers the purposes and goals
of this subtitle, the use of fiinds other than
those funds appropriated to the Department
of the Interior or the Department of Health
ond Human Services to meet the additional
costs associated with such use shall not constitute
an augmentation of Federal appropriations.
ser. 4219. .NEWSLETTER.
The Secretory of the Interior shall, not
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment
of this subtitle, publish an alcohol
and substance abuse newsletter in cooperation
with the Secretary of Health and
Human Services and the Secretary of Education
to report on Indian atcoftot ond substance
abuse projects and programs. The
newsletter shall—
ID be published once in each calendar
quarter,
12) include reviews of programs determined
by the Secretary of the Interior to be
exemplary and provide sufficient information
to enable interested persons to obtain
further information about such programs,
and
13) be circulated without charge to—
IA) schools.
IB) tribal offices,
iC) Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency and
oreo offices,
(Di Indian Health Service area and service
unit offices.
IE) Indian Health Service alcohol programs.
and
IF) other entities providing alcohol and
substance abuse related services or resources
to Indian people.
PART M—INDIAN YOVTH PROGRAMS
SEC. 4211. REHEH OfPHOVRAtlS.
la) REVIEW.—In the development of the
Memorandum of Agreement required by section
4205. the Secretary of the Interior and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
in cooperation with the Secretary of
Education shall review and consider—
ID Federal programs providing education
services or benefits to Indian children,
12) tribal. State, local, and private edueotional
resources and programs,
(3) Federal programs providing family
and social services and benefits for Indian
families and children,
14) Federal programs relating to youth employment,
recreation, cvUurul, and community
activities, and
15) tribal. State, local, and private resources
for programs similar to those cited
in paragraphs 13) and 14),
to determine their applicability and reteiiance
in carrying out the imrposes of this
subtitle.
lb) PuBucATiON.—The results of the review
conducted under sulssection la) shall be provided
to each Indian tribe as soon as possible
for their consideration and use in Dte developmenl
or modification of a Tribal
Action Plan under section 4206.
SEC. 42lt INDIANEDVCATTON PROGRAMS.
la) PILOT PsooRANS.—The jlssistant Secretary
of Indian ^^airs shall develop and implement
pilot programs in selected schools
funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs fsubject
to the approi'al of the local school board
or contract school board) to determine the
effectiveness of summer youth programs in
furthering the purposes and goals of the
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention
Act of 1986. The Assistant Secretary
shall defray all costs associated with the
oetuat operation and support of the pilot
programs in the school from funds appropriated
for this section. For the pilot programs
there are authorized to be aiiproprialed such
sums as may be necessary for each of the
fiscal years 1987,1988, and 1989.
lb) VsE OF FUNDS.—Federal financial assistance
made available to public or private
schools because of the enrollment of Indian
children pursuant toll)
the Act of April 16. 1934, as amended by
the Indian Education Assistance Act 125
U.S.C. 452 el seq,),
12) the Indian Elementary and Secondary
School Assistance Act 120 V.S.C. 241aa et
seq.), and
13) the Indian Education Act 120 V.S.C.
3385),
may be used to support a progiam of instruction
relating to alcohol and substance
abuse prevention and treatment
H11262 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
sue 42IX BHEKGEycr SHELTERS.
/a> IN GENSRAL.-A Tribai Action Plan
adopted pursuant to section 4206 may make
such provisions as may be necessary and
practical for the establishment, funding, licensing,
and oj)eration of emergency shelters
or half-way houses for youth who are
alcohol or substance abusers, including
youth who have been arrested for offenses directly
or indirectly related to alcohol or su6-
stance abuse.
Ibl REfTRRALS.—
til In any case where an Indian youth is
arrested or detained by the Bureau of
Indian Affairs or tribal law enforcement
personnel for an offense relating to alcohol
or substance abuse, other than for a status
offense as defined by the Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency freuention ,4ct of 1974,
under circumstances where such youth may
not be immediately restored to the custody
of his parents or guardians and where there
is space available in an appropriately licensed
and supervised emergency shelter or
half-way house, such youth shall be referred
to such facility in lieu of incarceration in a
secured facility unless such youth is deemed
a danger to himself or to other persons.
<21 In any case where there is a space
available in an appropriately ticenserf and
supervised emergency skelter or half-way
house, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
tribal courts are encouraged to refer Indian
youth convicted of offenses directly or indirectly
related to alcohol and substance abuse
to such facilities in Itcu of sentencing to incarceration
in a secured juvenile facility.
Id DIRECTION TO STATES.—In the case of
any State that erercises criminal Jurisdiction
over any part of Indian country under
section 1162 of title 18 of the United States
Code or section 401 of the Act of April 11.
1968 <25 U.S.C. 13211, such Slate is Urged to
require its law enforcement officers to—
<!) place any Indian youth arrested for
any offense related to alcohol or substance
abtise in a temporary emergency shelter described
in subsection tdi or a communitybased
alcohol or substance abuse treatment
facility in tiea of incarceration to the extent
such facilities are available, and
(2t obserue the standards promulgated
under subsection (d>.
<dJ STANPARDS.—The Assistant Secretary of
Indian Affairs shall, as part of the development
of the Memorartdum of Agreement set
out in section 4205,- promulgate standards
by which the emergency shelters established
under a program pursuant to subsection <a)
shall be established and operated.
<eJ AuTHORizATroN.—For the planning and
design, construction, and renovation of
emergency shelters or half-way houses to
provide emergency care for Indian youth,
there is authorized to be appropriated
$5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1987,
1988, and 1989, For the operation of emergency
shelters or half-way houses there is authorized
to be appropriated $3,000,000 for
each of the fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989,
The Secretary of the Interior shall allocate
funds appropriated pursuant to this subsection
on the basis of priority of need of the
various Indian tribes and such funds, when
allocated, shall be subject to contracting
pursuant to the Indian Self-Dctermination
Act
SEC. nu. SOCIAL SERVICES REPORTS.
<a> DATA.-The Secretary of the InleHor.
with respect to the administration of any
family or sociaZ services program by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs directly or through
contracts under the Indian Self-Dctermination
Act shall require the compilation of
data relating to the number and types of
child abuse and neglect cases seen and the
type of assistance provided. Additionally,
such data should also be categorized to reflect
those cases that involve, or appear to
involve, alcohol and substance abuse, those
cases which are recurring, and those cases
which involve other minor siblings.
tb) REFERRAL OF DATA.-The data compiled
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be provided
annually to the affected Indian tribe and
Tribal Coordinating Committee to assist
them in developing or modifying a Tribal
Action Plan and shall also be submitted to
the Indian Health Service service unit director
who will have responsibility for compiling
a tribal comprehensive report as provided
in section 4230.
tc) CoNFiDSNTiALm.—ln Carrying out the
requirements of subsections (a) and fb), the
Secretary shall insure that the data is compiled
and reported in a manner which will
preserve the confidentiality of the families
and indithduals.
PAHTIV—IA» £.\FORCE.HE\TA\D JUDICIAL
SERVICES
SEC. ais. REVIEW OF PROGRAMS.
la) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL SERVICES.—
In the development of the Memorandum
of Agreement required by section 4205.
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, in cooperation
with the Attorney General of the
United States, shall review and consider—
<I) the uarious programs established by
Federal law providing law enforcement or
judicial services for Indian tribes, and
121 tribal and State and local law enforcement
and judicial programs and systems
to determine their applicability and relevance
in carrying out the purposes of this
subtitle.
<b) DISSEMINATION OF REVIEW.—The results
of the review conducted pursuant to subsection
la) shall be made available to every
Indian tribe as soon as possible for their
consideration and use in the development
and modification of a Tribal Action Plan.
SEC. 4216. ILLEGAL NARCOTICS TRAFFIC ON THE
PAPAC.O RESERVATION: SOURCE
ERADICATION
laill) INVESNAATION AND CONTROL.—The
Secretary of the Interior shall provide assistance
to the Papago Indian Tribe ITokono
O'odhamI of Arizona for the investigation
and control of illegal narcotics traffic on the
Papago Reservation along the border with
Mexico. The Secretary shall ensure that
tribal efforts are coordinated with appropriate
Federal Law enforcement agencies, including
the United States Customs Service.
121 AiriHORJZATiONs.—FoT the purpose of
providing the assistance required by subsection
(at, there is authorized to be appropriated
$500,000 for each of the fiscal years
1987 1983. and 1989.
lb/11) MARUVANA ERADICATION.—The Secretary
of the Interior, in cooperation with appropriate
Federal, tribal, and State and
local law enforcement agencies, shall establish
and implement a program for the eradication
of marijuana cultivation within
Indian country as defined in section 1152 of
title 18, United Stales Code. The Secretary
shall establish a priority for the use of funds
appropriated under subsection Ibl for those
Indian reservations where the scope of the
problem is most critical, and such funds
shall be available for contracting by Indian
tribes pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination
Act.
12) AUTHORIZATIONS.—To carry out subsection
la), there is authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary for each
o/theJi'scaZ years 1987,1988, and 1989.
PART V—BUREAV OF INDIAN AFFAIRS LA FV
B,\FORCE,VE,\T
SEC. 4217. TRWAL COURTS, SENTENCING AND FINES.
To enhance the ability of tribal governments
to prevent and penalize the trafhc of
October 17, 1986
illegal narcotics on Indian reservations,
paragraph 17) of section 202 of the Act of
April II. 1969 125 U.S.C. 1302) is amended by
striking out "for a term of sii months and a
fine of $500, or both" and inserting in lieu
thereof "for a term of one year and a fine of
$5,000, or both".
SEC. «;& BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS LAW ENFORCE.
MENT A.ND JUDICIAL TRAINING.
la) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior
shall ensure, through the establishment
of a new training program or through the
supplement of existing training programs,
that all Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal
law enforcement and judicial personnel
shall have available training in the investigation
and prosecution of ojfenses relating
to illegal narcotics and In alcohol and substance
abuse prevention and treatment Any
training provided to Bureau of Indian Affairs
and tribal law enforcement and judicial
personnel as provided in subsection la)
shall specifically include training in the
problems of youth alcohol and substance
abuse prevention and treatment Such training
shall be coordinated with the Indian
Health Service in the carrying out of its responsibilities
under section 4228.
lb) AUTHORIZATION.—For the purpose of
providing the training required by subsection
la), there are authorized to be appropriated
$1,500,000 for each of the fiscal years
1987, 1988, and 1989.
SEC. 42IS. MEDICAL ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
OFJUyE.NILE OFFENDERS.
The Memorandum of Agreement entered
into pursuant to section 4205 shall include a
specific provision for the development and
implementation at each Bureau of Indian
Affairs agency and Indian Health Service
unit of o procedure for the emergency medical
assessment and treatment of every
Indian youth arrested or detained by
Bureau of Indian Affairs or tribal law enforcement
personnel for an offense relating
to or involving alcohol or substance abuse.
The medical assessment regutred by this subsection—
11) shall be conducted to determine the
mental or physical state of the individual
assessed so that appropriate steps can be
taken to protect the individual's heotth ond
well-being,
12) shall occur as soon as possible after the
arrest or detention of an Indian youth, and
13) shall be prouided by the Indian Health
5eruice, either through its direct or contract
health service.
SEC. 4226 JUVENILE DETE.NTION CENTERS.
la) PLAN.—The Secretary of the Interior
shall construct or renovate and slajfnew or
existing juvenile detention centers. JTie Secretary
shall ensure that the construction
and operation of tZje centers is consistent
with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974.
lb) AUTHORIZATION.—For the purpose of
subsection la), there is authorized to be appropriated
$10,000,000 for construction and
renovation for each of the fiscal years 1987,
1988, and 1989, and $5,000,000 for staffing
and operation for each of the fiscal years
1987. 1988, and 1989.
SEC. 4221. MODEL INDIAN JUVENILE CODE.
The Secretary of the Interior, either directly
or by contract, shall provide for the development
of a Model Indian Juvenile Code
which shall be consistent with the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974 and which shall include provisions relating
to the disposition of cases inuotuins
Indian youth arrested or detained by
Bureau of Indian Affairs or tribat law enforcement
personnel for alcohol or drug related
offenses. The development of such
model code shall be accomplished in coopOctober
17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11263
eration with Indian organizationi hat ing
an ezperlise or knowledge in the/ield o/law
en/orcemenl and judicial procedure and in
consuUation with /ndian tribes, Upon completion
of the Model Code, the Secretary
shall make copies available to each Indian
tribe,
SEC, «2i UW E.\fVRCK.VE.\r A\0 JCDICIAL
REPURT,
tat COMPILATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
DATA.—The Secretary of the Interior, with respect
to the administration of any law enforcement
or judicial services program by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, either directly
or through contracts under the Indian Self-
Determination Act. shall require the compilation
of data relating to calls and encounters,
arrests and detentions, and disposition
of cases by Bureau of Indian Affairs or
tribal law enforcement or judicial personnel
involving Indians where it is determined
that alcohol or substance abuse is a contributing
factor.
lb! REFERRAL or DATA,—The data compiled
pursuant to subsection la) shall be provided
annually to the affected Indian tribe and
Tribal Coordinating CommiClee to assist
them in developing or modifying a Tribal
Action Plan and shall also be submitted to
the Indian Health Service unit director who
will have the responsibility for compiling a
tribal comprehensive report as provided in
section 4230.
(CI CONFIPENT/ALITY.—In Carrying out this
section, the Secretary shall insure that the
data is compiled and reported in a manner
which will preserve the confidentiality of
the families and individuals involved.
PART Vr—IYOIA\ ALCOHOL ASD SVBSTAHCE
ABVSE TREATME,\TA\D REHABILITATIO.S
SEC, 4!!4, REVIEW OF PR<H;R,4.HS,
<a) IN GENERAL,—In the development of the
Memorandum of Agreement required by section
4205, the Secretary of the Interior and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall review and consider—
(!) the various prostrams established by
Federal law providing health services and
benefits to Indian tribes, including those relating
to mental health and alcohol and substance
abuse prevention and treatment and
(21 tribal. State and locat and private
health resources and programs,
<31 where facilities to provide such treatment
are or should be located, and
<41 the effectiveness of public and private
alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs
in operation on the date of the enactment
of this subtitle,
Co determine their applicability and relevance
in carrying out the purposes of this
subtitle.
(bl DISSEMINATION,—The results of the
review conducted under subsection fal shall
be provided to every Indian tribe as soon as
possible for their consideration and use in
the development or modification of a Tribal
Action Plan.
SEC, 4in. l,\OIAN HEALTH SERVICE RESPOXSIOILITIE.
S.
The Memorandum of Agreement entered
into pursuant to section 4205 shall include
specific provisions pursuant to which the
Indian Health Service shall assume responsibility
for—
( I ) t h e d e t e r m i n a t i o n o f t h e s c o p e o f t h e
problem of alcohol and substance abuse
among Indian people, including the number
of Indians within the jurisdiction of the
Indian Health Service who are directly or
indirectly affected by alcohol and substance
abuse and the financial and human cost,
(21 an assessment of the existing and
needed resources necessary for the prevention
of alcohol and substance abuse and the
Ireafmenl of Indians affected by alcohol and
substance abuse, and
(31 an estimate of (he funding necessary to
adequately support a program of prevention
of alcohol and substance abuse and treatment
of Indians affected by alcohol and substance
abuse.
SEC, /.VOM.V HEALTH SERVICE PROERAM.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services,
acting through the Indian Health Service,
shall provide a program of comprehensive
alcohol and substance abuse prevention
and treatment which shall include
(1! prevention, through educational intervention,
In Indian communities,
(2) acute detoxification and treatment,
<3! community-based rehabilitation, and
(41 community education and involvement,
including extensive training of health
care, educational, and community-based
personneL
The target population of such a program
shall be the members of Indian tribes. Additionally.
efforts to train and educate key
members of the Indian community shall
target employees of health, education, judiciaL
law enforcement, legal, and social service
programs,
SEC, 4227, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE tOlTH PRODRAM.
(a! DETOXIFICATION AND REHABILITATION,—
The Secretary shall develop ond implement
a program for acute detoxification and
treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol
and substance abusers. The program shall
include regional treatment centers designed
to include detoxification and rehabilitation
for bath sexes on a referral basis. These regional
centers shall be integrated with the
intake and retiabititation proprams bwed in
the referring Indian community,
(bi CENTERS,—The Secretary shall construct
or renovate a youth regional treatment
center in each area under the jurisdiction
of an Indian Health Service area office.
For purposes of the preceding sentence, the
area offices of the Indian Health Service in
Tucson and ^hoenis:, Arizona, shall be considered
one area office. The regional treatment
centers shall be appropriately staffed
with health pro/essionats. TTiere are outAor-
Ued to be appropriated 16.000,000 for the
construction and renovation of the regional
youth treatment centers, and $3,000,000 for
the staffing of such centers, for each of the
fiscal years 1987, 1988. and 1989,
(CI FEDERALLY OWNED STRVCTIVRES.-
(II The Secretary of Health and Human
Services, acting through the Indian Health
Service, shall, in consultation with Indian
tribes—
lAI identify and use, where appropriate,
federally owned structures, suitable as local
residential or regional alcohol and su^
stonce abuse treatment centers for Indian
youth, and
(B! establish guidelines for determining
the suitability of any such federally owned
structure to be used as a local residential or
regional alcohol and substance abuse treatment
center for Indian youth.
(21 Any structure described in paragraph
<11 may be used under such terms and conditions
as may be agreed upon by the Secretary
of Health and Human Services and the
agency having responsibility for the structure,
(31 There are authorized to be appropriated
$3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
1987, 1988, and 1989.
<dl REHABILITATION AND FOLLOW-UP SERVICES,-
(11 The Secretary, in cooperation with the
Secretary of the Interior, shall develop and
implement within each Indian Heoitft Service
service unit community-based rehabilitation
and/ottouj-up services/or/ndfan youtft
tcho are alcohol or substance obusers tofticA
are designed to integrate long-term treatment
and to mo?iitor and support the
Indian youth after their return to their
home community.
(21 Services under paragraph (II shall be
administered within each service unit by
trained staff within the community who can
assist the Indian youth in continuing development
of self-image, positive problem-solving
skills, and nonalcohol or substance
abusinp behaviors. Such staff shall include
alcohol and substance abuse counselors,
mental health professionals, and other
health professionals and paraprofessionals.
including community health representatives.
(31 For the purpose of providing the services
authorized by paragraph (H, there are
authorized to be appropriated $9,000,000 for
each of the fiscal years 1987, 1988. and 1989.
SEC. 422S, THAINISG AND COMMVNITY EDVCATWN,
tal COMMUNITY EDUCATION.—Tlie Secretary,
in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior,
shall devefop and implement wilhin
each service unit a program of community
education and involvement which shall be
designed to provide concise and timely information
to the community leadership of
each tribal community. Such program shall
include education in alcohol and substance
abuse to the critical core of each tribal community,
Including political leaders, tribal
judges, law enforcement personnel, members
of tribal health and education boards, and
other critical parties.
(bl TRAiNisa.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shalL either directly or ttiroupA contract, provide instruction in the
area of alcohol and substance abuse, including
instruction in crisis intervention and
family relations in the context of alcohol
and substance abuse, youth alcohol and substance
abuse, and the causes and effects of
fetal alcohol syndrOTTie to appropriate employees
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
the Indian Health Service, and personnel in
scAoots or programs operated under any
contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs
or the Indian Health Services, including supervisors
of emergency shelters and half-way
houses described in section 4213.
"(cKll DEMONSTRATION PROOBAM.—The
Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall establish at least one demonstration
project to determine the most effective and
cost-efficient means of—
"(A! providing health promotion and disease
prevention services,
"<BI encouraging Indians to adopt good
health habits,
"(C) reducing health risks to Indians, particularly
the risks of heart disease, cancer, stroAe, diabetes, • • • depression, and lifestyle-
related accidents,
"(D) reducing medical expenses of Indians
through health promotion and disease prevention
activities,
"(El establishing a program—
"til which trains Indians in the provision
of health promotion and disease prevention
services to members of their tribe, and
"(iiJ under which such Indians are available
on a contract basis to provide such
services to other tribes, and
"(Fl providing training and continuing
education to employees of the service, and to
paraprofessionals participating in the Community
Health Representativi Program, in
the delivery of health promotion and disease
prevention services.
"(21 The demonstration project described
in poraprapA (1! shall include an analysis of
the cost effectiveness of organizational
structures and of social and educational
programs that may be useful in achieving
t h e o b j e c t i v e s d e s c r i b e d i n p a r a g r a p h ( I I .
H11264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
'(3)iAi The demonstration project described
in paragraph 111 shall be conducted
in association ieith at least one—
"<i> health profession school,
"liil allied health profession or nurse
training insUtuUon, or
"liii) public or private entity. Otat provides
health catt
"<BI The Secretary is authorieed to enter
into contracts wttA. or make grants to, any
school of, medicine or school of osteopathy
for the purpose of carrying out the demonstration
project described in paragraph (I).
"ICI For purposes of <Ais paragraph, the
term 'school of medicine'and'school of osteopathy'
have the respective meaning given
to such terms by section 701I4J of the Public
Health Service Act <42 U.S.C. 292al4>J.
"141 The SceretOTv shall submit to Congress
a final report on the demonstration
project described in paraorojjft III within 60
days after the termination of such project
"isi For purposes Of this paragraph, the
term "health promotion'shall include:
"lAJ reduction in the misitse of alcohol
and drugs,
"iBi cessation of tobacco smoking.
"tCI improvement of nutrition.
"IDI improvement in physical fitness.
"IBI family planning, and
"IFI eoniml of stress,
"161 For purposes of this- paragraph; the
term 'disease prevention'shall include:
"III immunisations,
"121 control of high blood pressure,
"131 control of sexually transmittable diseases.
"141 prevention and control o/dloi>e/es.
"tSJ pregnancy and infant care Hncluding
prevention, of fetal alcohol syndromel,
"161 control of tone agents,
"171 occupational safely and health,
"ISI accident prevention,
"191 fluoridation of watsr, and
"(lO! control of infectious agents.
"171 Sec. 4228 is amended by adding at the
end the following "provided that $500,000
shall be made available for activities described
under section 4228lcllll.
Idl AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorised
to tK appropriated $4,000,000 for the fiscal
year 1987 and such sums as are necessary to
carry out the purposes Of this section for the
fiscal years 1988 and 1989.
see. SUA ,Y4VIJO ALCUIMI AMABITIT.IRION DKMONSTHA
TION PLMGHA-Y.
lal DEMONSTRATION PnooRAM.—The Secretary
of Health and Human Services shall
make grants to the Navajo tribe to establish
a demonstration program in the ^iy of
GaUup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult
Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism
or alcohol abuse.
<b> EVALUATION AND REPORT.—The Secretary.
acting tAronsrft the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,, shall
evaluate Che program established under subsection
lal and submit a report on such
evaluation to the appropriate Committees of
Congress by January 1, 1990.
fcl AUTHORIZATION.—Tliere are authorieed
to be appropriated for the purposes ^grants
under subsection lal $300,000 for each of the
fiecat years 1989, 1989, and 1990. Not more
than 10 perce?ii of the funds appropriated
for any fiscal year may be used for administrative
purposes.
see. 4ija INIHAN HEAIW SBRVICS REPORTH
lal COMPILATION oe DATA.—The Secretary of
Health and Human Services, with respect to
the administration of any hetdth program
by an Indian Health Service service unit directly
or thro-ugh contract, including a contract
under the Indian Self-Determination
Ad, shall require Die compiMUm of data relating.-
to the number of cases or incidents
which any of the Indian Health Service personnel
or services were im>olved and which
were related, either directly or indirectly, to
alcohol or substance abase Such report shall
inciude the type of assistance provided and
the disposition of these coses.
lb) REFERRAL OF D.-irA.—The data compiled
under subsection la) shall be provided annually
to the affected Indian tribe and Tribal
Coordinating Committee to assist them in
developing or modifying a Tribal Action
Flan.
ID COMPREHENSIVE REPORT.—Each Indian
Health Service service unit etirector shall be
responsible for assembling Che data compiled
under this section and section 4204
into on annual tribal comprehensive report
which shall be provided to the affected tribe
and to the Director of the Indian Health
Service who shall develop and publish a biennial
national report on sucA tribal cornprehensive
reports.
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous Provisions
SEC IS9I. ACTION GRA.NTS.
The Domestic Volunteer Service Act of
1973 (as amended by the Domestic Volunteer
Service Act Amendments of 1986! is amended—
111 in title t by adding after section 123
the following new section:
"SPECIAL INITIATIVES
"SEC. 124. TTu Director is authorized to
engage in activities that mobilize and initiate
private sector efforts to increase voluntarism
in preventing drug abu^ throus^
public awareness and education (including
grants, contracts, conferences, public service
announcements, speakers bureau, publicprivate
partnerships and technical assistance
to nonprofit and for-profit organisations).
(2) by amending subsection ic) of section
SOI by adding at the end thereof the following
new sentence: "In addition to the
amounts authorised to fie appropriated by
the preceding sentence, there is authorised
to be appropriated the aggregate sum of
$5,500,060 for fiscal years 1987 and 1988 to
be made available for drug afiasc prevention.";
and
131 by amending section 504 by adding at
the end thereof the following new sentence:
"In addition to the amounts authorised to
be appropriated for the administralion of
this Act by the preceding sentence, there is
authorised to be appropriated the aggregate
sum of $500,000 for fiscal years 1987 and
1988 to be available for support of drug
abuse prevention.
Sb'C. «« ESTABUmHE.VT OP VA TtONAt TRUST FOR
ORuc-FREB yonn.
taj In order to encourage private gifts of
real and personal property to assist the Secretary
of Education in carrying out the national
programs of drug abuse research, education,
and prevention under subtitle B,
there is hereby established o charitable, nonprofit,
and nonpartisan corporation to be
known as the National Trust for Drug Free
Youth.
(bl The National Trust for Drug-Free
Youlh thereinafter in this section referred to
as the "National Trusf'l shall be under the
general direction of a Board of Directors.
The overall priorities, policies, and goals of
the National Trust shall be determined by
the Board in consultation with the Secretary.
The Board shall coordinate the activities
of the National Trust for Drug-Free
Youth with the Secretary. The Board shall be
composed of three members appointed as follows:
111 one member shall be appointed by the
President;
121 one member shall be appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives:
and
(31 one member shall be appointed by the
Majority Leader of Die Senate.
October 17, 1986
(d The National Trust shall have its prisucipal
office in the District of Cotumfiia and
fbr the purpose of venue in civil actions
Shan be considered an inhabitojil and resident
of the District
Id) The National Trust shall have the foblowing
general powers:
111 to have succession until dissolved by
Act of Congress, in which event title to the
properties of- the National Trust, both real
and personal shall, insofar as consistent
with, existing contractual obligations and
sitfijecl to all other legally enforceable elaims
or demands by or against the National
Trust, pass to and fiecome vested in the
United Stotes of America;
121 to adopt, alter, and use a corporate
seal which shall be judicially noticed;
(31 to sue and be sued, complain and
defend in any court of competent jurisdiction;
141 to adopt and establish such bvlanos,
rules, and regulations, not inconsistent with
Dielaws of the United Stala.or of any State,
as the Board considers necessary for the aitminislraiion
of its functions, including
among other matter, bylaws, rul^ and regulations
governing administralion of corporate
funds;
(SI to accept, hold, and administer gifts
and bequests of money, securities, or other
personai property of whatsoever characteT.
absolutely or on trust, for the purposes fOr
which the National Trust is created'
181 to sell, exchange, or otfterunse dispose
0/as it map determine from time Co time the
moneys, securities, or other gifts given or bequeathed
to it:
171 to appoint and perseribe the duties of
such officers, agents, and employees as may
be necessarp to carry out its functions, and
to fix and pay such compensation to them
for their services as the National Trust is
created; and
(81 to audit the financM records of the
corporation.
Id The National Trust shaU not have authority-
Ill to issue shares or stock or declare or
pop dividends: or
(21 to loan funds to its olficers or directors.
If) The Board sktUl sufimit an annuot
report and independent audit to the Congress
and the President concerning the expenditure
of funds under the National
Trust
SEC «M. INFORMATION ON DRVC ABUSE AT THE
WOKKFLACB
(ai The Becretarp of Labor shall collect
such information as is available on the incidence
of drug abuse in the workplace such
efforts to assist workers, including counseling,
rehabilitation and employee assistance
progra'ms. The Secrefarp shatf conduct such
additional research as is necessary to assess
the impact and extent of drug ofiuse ond remediation
efforts. The Secretary shoil
submit the findings of such eoUeetion and
research to the Bouse Committee on Education
and Labor and the Senate CommHtee
on Labor and Human Services no later than
two years from the date of enactment of this
AcL
Ibl There is authorised to be appropriated
the aggregate sum of $3,000,000 for fiscal
years 1987 and 1998, to remain avoitofite
until expended, to enafite the Secretary of
Lofior to earrp out the itUTposes of this section
SBC. tSM. INTERA GENCr COORDINA TIO.N.
faJ The Secretary o f Education, t h e Secretary
of Health and Human Services, and the
Secretary of Labor shall each designate an
officer or employee of the Departments of
Education, Health and Human Services,.
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11265
and Labor, respectively, to coordinate interagency
drug abuse prevention activities to
prevent duplication of effort
tbJ Wif/iin one year after enactment of
this Act a report shall be jointly submitted
to the Congress by such Secretaries concerning
the extent to which States and localities
have been able to implement non-duplicalive
drug abuse prevention activities.
TITLE V—UNITED STATES INSULAR AREAS
A.ND NATIONAL PARKS
SubtiUe A—Programs in United States Insular
Areas
SEC SM. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the "United
States Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of
1SS6".
SEC SMt PURPOSES
The purposes of this subtitle are to improve
enforcement of drug laws and enhance
interdiction of illicit drug shipments in Ihe
Caribbean and Pacific territories and commonwealths
of the United States and to
assist public and private sector drug abuse
prevention and treatment programs in
United States insular areas.
.SEC. sesj. ANNUAL REPORTS TO CO.NCHESS
The president shall report annually to the
Congress as to—
<1! the efforts and success of Federal agencies
in preventing the illegal entry into the
United States of controlled substances from
the insular areas of the United States outside
the customs territory of the United
States and states freely associated with the
United States and the nature and extent of
such illegal entry, end
(2J the efforts and success of Federal agencies
in preventing the illegal entry from
other nations, inctuding states freely associated
toiyi the United States, of controlled
substances into the United Slates territories
and the commonwealths for use in Ihe territories
and commonwealths or for transsAipment
to the United States and the nature
and extent of such illegal entry and use.
SEC. SOW. tNEORCE-HENT AND ,4t)J#/,V/.SrR,4770.V /.V
INSULAR AREAS.
(aJ AsrsRiCAN SAMOA.—ID With the approval
of the Attorney General of the United
Stotes or his designee, law enforcement officers
of the Government of American Samoa
are authorised to—
lAi execute and serve warrants, subpoenas,
and summons issued under the authority of
the United States;
IB) make arrests without warrant; and
(CJ make seizures of property to carry out
the purposes of this sabtiite. the Controlled
Sabstances Import and Export Act (21
U.S.C. $51-9701, and any other applicable
narcotics laws of the United States.
121 The Attorney General and the Secretary
of Health and Human Services of the
United States are authorized to—
(A) train law enforcement officers of the
Government of American Samoa, and
IBJ provide by purchase or tease law enforcement
equipment and technical assistance
to the Government of American Samoa
to carry out the purposes of this subtitle and
any other Federal or territorial drug abuse
taws.
<31 There are authorized to be appropriated
2700,000 to carry oat the purposes of
this subsection, to remain available until expended.
(b) GuAM.—m The Attorney General and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services
of the United States may provide technical
assistance and equipment to the Government
of Guam to carry out the purposes of
this subtitle and any other Federal or territorial
drug abuse law.
(2! There are authorized to be appropriated
21,000.000 to cam* out paragraph (1).
Funds appropriated under this paragraph
shall remain ai'ailable until expended.
to THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.—(1)
With the approval of the Attorney General
of the United Stales or his designee, law enforcement
officers of the Government of the
Northern Mariana /stands are authorixed
to—
(A) execute and serve warrants, subpoenas,
and summons issued under the authority of
the United States;
(Bl make arrests without warrant; and
<C) make seizures of property to corry out
the purposes of this subtiUe, the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act (21
U.S.C. 951-9701, and any other applicable
narcotics laws of the United States.
121 The Attorney ^neral of the Cntted
States and the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, as appropriate, ore authorized
to—
IA> train law enforcement officers of the
Government of the tvorthem Mariana Islands,
and
IBJ provide, by purchase or lease, law enforcement
equipment and technical assistance
to the Goaemment of the Northern
Mariana Islands to carry out the purposes of
this subtitle and any other Federal or commonwealth
drug abuse law.
(3> There are authorized to be appropriated
2250,000 to carry out the purposes of
this subseetiOTv to remain available untit expended.
141 Federal personnel and egaipment ossigned
to Guam pursuant to subsection (bJ
of this section shall also be available to
carry out the purposes of this subtitle in the
Northern ttforiano Islands.
(dJ PUERTO Rico.—ill There are authorized
to be appropriated for gronts to the
Government of Puerto Rico—
(A) 23,300,000 for the purchase of 2 helicopters;
IBJ 23,500,000 for the purchase of an aircraft;
and
ICJ 21,000,000 for the purchase and maintenance
of 5 highspeed aesse/s.
Sums appropriated under this pcrograph
shall remain available until expended.
(2J The United Stales Customs Service
should station an aerostat in Puerto Rico.
I3J Equipment provided to Die Goaemnient
of Puerto Rico pursuant to paragraph
IIJ of this subsection shall be niade available
upon request to the Federal agencies involved
in drug interdiction in Puerto Rico.
I4JIAJ The Attorney General and the Secretary
of Health and Human Services of the
United States may provide technical assistance
and equipment to the Government of
Puerto Rico to carry out the purposes of this
subtitle and any other Federal or commonwealth
drug abuse law.
(BJ There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary to carry
out subparagraph lAJ. Funds appropriated
under this subparagraph shall remain available
until expended.
(eJ THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.—HJ There are authorized
to be appropriated far grants to the
Government of the Virgin Islands—
(AJ 23,000,000 for 2 patrol vessels, tracking
equipment, supplies, and agents, and
IBJ 21,000.000 for programs to prevent and
treat narcotics abuse, such sums to remain
available until expended.
I2J The United States Coast Guard should
station a patrol vessel in St Croix, Virgin
Islands.
I3JIA/ The Attorney General and the Secretary
of Health and Human Services of the
United States may provide technical assistance
and equipment to the Government of
the United States Virgin Islands to carry out
the purposes of this subtitle and any other
Federal or territorial drug abuse law.
IBJ There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary to carry
out subparagraph lAJ. Funds appropriated
under this subparagraph shall remain available
until expended.
Subtitle B—.National Park Servlee Program
SEC SOSI. SHORT TITLE
This subtitle may be cited as the "National
Park Police Drug rn/orcement Supplemental
Authority Act".
SEC SOSI. NATIONAL PARK FOUCB AVTHORIEATIIIN.
In order to improve Federal law enforcement
activities relating to the use of narcotics
and prohibited substances in national
park system units there are made available
la the Secretary of the Interior, in addition
to sums made available under other authority
0l law, 21.000.000 for the fiscal year/9S7,
ond for each fiscal year thereafter, to be
used for the employment and training of additional
Park Police, for equipment and facilities
to be used by Park Police, and for expenses
related to such employment, training,
equipment, and facilities.
TITLE VI—FEDERAL EMPLOYEE SUBSTANCE
ABUSE EDUCA TION AND TREA TMENT
SEC. SMI. SHORT TITLE
This title may be cited as the "Federal Employee
Substance Abuse Education and
Treatment Act of 1986".
SEC SMI. PRO<;RA,HS TO PROVIDE PREVENTW.N,
TREATMENT, AND REHABILITATION
SERVICES TO FEDERAL BMPtOiEES
WITH RESPECT TO DRUG A.ND ALIVHOL
ABUSE.
la) IN GENERAL.—M Chapter 73 of title 5.
United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following;
"SUBCHAPTER VI—DRUG ABUSE,
ALCOHOL ABUSE. AND ALCOHOLISM
"S 7361. Drug abuse
"(a) The Office of Personnel Management
shall be responsible for developing, in cooperation
with the President, with the Secretary
of Health and Human Services (acting
through the National Institute on Drug
Abuse), and with other agencies, and in accordance
with applicable provisions of this
subchapter, appropriate preaentlon, treatment,
and rehabilitation prograTns and services
for drug obuse among employees. Such
agencies are encouraged to extend, to the
extent feasible, such programs and services
to the families of employees ond to employees
who have family members who are drug
abusers. Such programs and services shall
make optimal use of existing governmental
facilities, services, and skills.
"IbJ Section 527 of the Public Health Service
Act 142 U.S.C. 290ee-3J, relating to con/tdentialily
of records, ojid any regulations
prescribed thereunder, shall apply with respect
to records maintained for the purpose
of carrying out this section.
"IcJ Each agency shcK, ioith respect to any
programs or services provided by such
agency, submit such written reports as the
Office may require in connection with ony
report required under section 7363 of this
title.
"idJ For the purpose of this section, the
term 'agency' means an Executive agency.
"d 7362. Alcohol abuse and alcoholisin
"laJ The Office of Personnel Management
shall be responsible for developing, in cooperation
with the Secretary of Health and
HuTnan Services and with other agencies,
and in accordance with applicable provisions
of this subport, appropriate prevention,
treatment, and rehabilitation programs
and services for alcohol abuse and alcoholism
among employees. Such agencies
are encouraged to extend, to the extent feasible,
such programs and services to the famiH11266
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lies of alcoJtolic employees and to employees
who have family members who are ^eoholics.
Svch programs and services shall make
optimal use of existing gaverrtmenCal facilities,
services, and skills.
"(t»/ SeeCiott 523 of Oie Public Health Service
Act 142 V.S.C. 290dd-3). relating to confidentialiiy
of records, and any. regulations
prescribed thereunder, shall apply with, respect
to records maintained for the purpose
of carrying out this section.
"id Each agency shall with respect to any
programs or sercices provided by such
agency, saftmii such written reports as the
Office may reguire in connection with any
report regutred under section 7363 of this
title.
"Id) For the purpose of this section, the
term 'agency' means an Executive agency.
"S 7363. Reports to Congress
"la/ The Office of Personnel Management
shall within 6 months after the date of the
enacimenl of the Federal Employee Substance
Abuse Education and Treatment Act
of 1886 and annually thereafter, submit to
each House of Congress a report containing
the matters described in subsection lb/.
"lb/ Each report under this section shall
include—
"11/ a description of any programs or services
provided under section 7361 or 7362 of
this title, including the costs associated with
each such program or service andthe source
astd. adequacy of any funding such program
or service;
"12/ a description of the levels of parlicipation
in each program and service provided
under section 7361 or 7362 of this title,
and the effectiveness of such programs and
services:
"I3> a description of Bte training and
qualifications required of the personnel providing
any program or service under section
7361 or 7362 of this title;
"14/ a deseriptian of the training given to
si^mrvisory personnel in eonneetion loitA
recoffntatnff the symptoms of drug or alcohol
abuse and the procedures lincluding those
relating to confidentiality/ under which individaals
are referred for treatment, rehabUilation,
or oO\cr assistance:
"tS/ any recommendations for legislation
eeneidered appropriale by the Office and
(ram proposed administrative actions: and
"16/ information describing any ot/ier related
aetivities under section 7904 of this
title, and any odisr matter which the Office
ccmsiders appropriate.
12/ JTie analysis for chapter 73 of title 5.
Urtited States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:
"SVaCHAPTER Vt—DRVXi ABCSE.
ALCOHOL ABUSE, AND ALCOHOLISM
"Sec.
"7361. Drug abuse.
"7.362. Alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
"7363- Reports to Congress.
Ibl TBCH»icAt a»D CDHfon/gnia Atexmsstsitxs.—
The Public Health Service Act is
amended—
ft/ in section S21 142 U.S.C. 290dd'-l/—
lAJ by striking out subsection la/;
IBI by striking out "similar" in subsection.
Ib)ll/:and
IC/ by redesignatina subsections lb/, Ic/,
and Id/ as subsections la/. IbJ, and tc/, respeclivelyj
and
12/ in section 525 142 U.SC. 290ee-l/—
lA/ by striking out subsection la/,-
IB/ by striking out "similar" in subsection,
ibJiU: and
IC/ by redesignating subsections ft/, tc/.
and fdl as subseetiona laJ, tb/,. taut M, respectively.
SBC ems. EDrr.jwoiV4£ PRGTIR.IM FUR FFPKRAL
SMPLOFEBS «Ki477.Vtf TO PRVI! A.W
ATVOHOL ABFSE.
laJ ESTABrjsiiaTE//T.—Tbe Director of the
Office of Personnel Management shall, in
consultation with the Secretary of Health
and. Human Services, establish a Government-
wide education program, using seminars
and such other methods as die Director
considers appropriate, to carry out the purposes
prescribed in suOsection lb/.
lb/ PURPOSES.—The. program established
under this section shaU be designed to provide
information, to Federal Govemmeai
employees with respect toll/
the short- and long-term health htieards
associated with alcahol abuse and (trufr
abuse:
12/ the sympttims of alcohol abuse and
drug abuse;
13/ Che availability of any prevention,
treatment, or rehabilitalion prcjfframs or
services relating to alcohol abuse or drug
abuse, whether provided 6y the Federal Qovemment
or otherwise:
14/ confidentiality protections afforded in
connection with any prevention, treatment,
or rehabilitation programs or services;
15/ any penalties provided under taw or
regulation, and any adminislralive oction
Ipermissive or mandatory), relating to the
use of alcohol or drugs by a federai Gouemment
employee or the failure to seek or receive
appropriate treatment or rehabilitation
services: and
16) any other matter which the Director
considers appropriate.
SEC. see/. E.YPHOYEE AS.NKTAYEE PROKHA-TA EBLATIYI;
TO DRVC A0V9S A.VP ALCOHOL
ABI.'iiL
la/ IN GfiA'iVeAt.—CTiapter 78 of title 5,
United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:
"S 7904, Employee assistance prttgrams retaling to
drug abuse and ahohol abase
"(a/ The head of each Executive agency
shall, in a manner consistent with guidelines
prescribed under subsection lb) of this
section and applicable promsions of /nto. establish
appropriate prevention, treatment,
and, rehabiiilalion programs and services
for drug o6i(se and alcohol abuse for employees
in or under such agency.
"lb/ The Office of Personnel Management
shall, after sueh consultations as the Office
considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines
for programs and services under this section..
"ici The Secretarv of Health and Human
Services, on rcijuest of the head of an Executive
agency, shall review any program or
service provided under this section and
shall submit comments and reeommenda-
Hons to the head of the agency cancemed.
lb) CoNFOHmiNO AMSNOMENT.—The analysis
for chapter 79 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the fallowing:
"7904. Employee assistance programs relating
to drug abuse attd alcohol
abase.".
SEC. SS9S. SUBSTANCE ABL'HE ('(/YERAGE STVOR.
la/ Srpp.K—JTie Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall contract with the InsIHtute
of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences to conduct a study of 11/ the
extent to which the cost of drug abuse treatment
is covered by prii<ate insurance, public
programs, and other sources of payment,
and 12/ the adequacy of such coi'erape for
the rehabilitation of drug abusers.
lb) REPORT.—Not later than one year after
the date of the enactment of this Act the Secretary
of Health and Human Services shall
tronmtt to the Congress a report of the results.
of the study conducted under subsection
la). The report shall include recemmendattons
of means to meet the neects identified
in such study.
SEC. SEES HEALTH INSVRASCE CORF.RAGE FOR ORLG
AND ALCOHOL TTUIATHENT.
ta/fwDwos.—77ie Confirress/inds that—
(1/ drug and alcohol abuse are problems of
grave concern and consequence in American
society;
121 over 500,000 individuals are known
heroin addicts,- 5 miJIion rndiriduats use cocaine:
and at least Tmillion individuals regulariy
use prescription drugs, mostly addictive
ones, without medical supervision:
13/ 10 million aduUs and 3 miUzon. children
and adolescents abuse alcohol, and an
additional 30 to 40 million people are adversely
affected because of close family lies
to alcoholics:
t4/ the total cost of drug abuse to the
nation in I9S3 was over S60.000.oo0.oa0: and
15/ the vast wojoritji of henllh benefits
plans provide only limited coverage for
treatment of drug and alcohol addiction,
which is a fact l/tat can discourage Che
abuser from seeking Irealmenl or. if the
abuser does seek treatment, can cause the
abuser to face significant out of pocket expenses
for the treatment
(b/ SENSE OP CONGRESS.—It is the sense of
Congress that—
11/ all employers providing health insurance
policies should ensure that the poticies
provide adequate coverage for treatment of
drug and alcohol addiction in recognition
that the health consequences and costs Jbr
individuals and society can be as formidw
ble- as those resulting from other diseases
and illnesses for which insurance coverage
is much more adequate: and
(2/ State insurance corn'mtssioners should
encourage emptoyers providing health benefits
plans to ensure that the poticies provide
more adequate coverage for treatment of
drug and alcohol addtction.
TITLE Fll—.VATlOX.il A.VTIVRl'G
REOIlGASIZATIt/y AND- COORBINATWS
SEC. TML. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the "National
Antidrug Reorganisation and Coordination
Act".
.sec. TSet. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds, that—
11/ the Federal Government's response to
drug trafficking and drug atsuse is divided
among several dozen agencies and bureaus
of the Govemmenl, ranging from the Department
of De/ense la the Department of
Health and Human Sen/ices;
12/ numerous recent congressional hear^
ings and reports, reports by the ConptroRer
Gmer.al, and studies by Executive branch
agencies have documented the- waste and inefficiency
caused by this, division of responsibilities;
13/ interagency competitton far credit and
budget dollars imposes critical obstacles to
efficient apidieation of national resources
in combating drug trafficking and drug
abuse: and
141 successfully eombatxng such tra/fieking
and drug, afitise requires coherent planning
that includes intelligent organization and
operations of Executive branch agencies.
SEC. 7904. SUBMISSION OF LEGISLATION.
Not later than 6 manlhs after Ihe date of
enactment of this title, the President shaR
submit to each House of Congress recommendations
fi>r legislation to reorganize the
Executive branch of the Government to
more effectively combat d-rug fra^e onrf
drag abuse: In the preparation of such recommendations.
the IVesidenf shall consult
with the Comptroller General. State and
local law enforcement authorities, retevasit
committees of the Congress, and the Attorney
General and the Secreta-ries <if State, the
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11267
Treasury. Transportation, Health and
Human Services, Defense, and Education.
TITLE VIll—PRESWEhTS MEDIA COMMISSIOK
ON ALCOHOL AND DKL'G ABVSE PKEVENTION
SEC. STTL. SHORT TITLB.
This title may be cited as the "President's Medio Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Prevention Act".
SEC. ESTAUUSHME.YR.
There is established o commmion to be
kno-wn as the President's Media Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention
(hereinafter in this title referred to as the
"Commission
SEC. SM. IH TIES (IF CO.V.VISSIO.\:
The Commission shall—
11/ examine public education programs in
effect on the date of the enactment of this
title which are—
(A/ tmpiemenCed through various segments
of mass medial and
<BJ intended to prevent alcohol and drug
abuse:
(2) act as an administrative and coordinating
body for the voluntary donation of
resources from—
<A/ television, radio, motion picture, cable
communications, and print niedto,"
fB/ the recording industry:
IC/ the advertising industry:
(DJ the business sector of the United
Stales; and
lEJ professional sports organisations and
associations:
to assist the implementalion of new programs
and national strategies for dissemination
of information intended to prevent
alcohol and drug abuse:
(3/ encourage rtrcdia outlets throughout
the country to provide information aimed at
preventing alcohol and drug abuse, including
public service announcements, documerrtary
films, and advertisements: and
14/ evaluate the effectiveness and assist in
the update of programs and national strategies
formulated with the assistance of the
Commission.
SEC. HIUH. HEmE/iSHtP.
la/ NUMBER AND AppowTWavr.—77ie Commission
shall be composed of 12 members
appointed by the President within 30 days
after the date of the enactment of this title,
and should include representatives of—
'1/ advertising agencies:
12/ motion picture, television, radio, cable
communications, and print media:
(3/ the recording industry;
(4/ other segments of the business sector of
the United .Stales:
fS/ experts in the prevention of alcohol
and drug abuse:
(6/ professional sports organisations and
associations: and
(7/ other Federal agencies, as designated
by the President, including, the Director of
the Agency for Substance Abuse Prevention
of the Department of Health and ilfuman
ScTvices.
lb/ TERMS —tl/ Except as provided in
paragraphs <2/ and 13), members shall be appointed
for terms of 3 years.
12/ Any member appointed to fat a tiooancy
occurring before the expiration of the
term for which his predecessor was appointed
shall be appointed only for the remainder
of such term.
13) A member may serve after the expiration
of his term until his successor hos
laken office.
fc) BASIC PAY AND EXPENSES.—13/ Except as prot'tded in paragraph (2). members of the Commissfon shall serve without pay.
12/ While away from their homes or regular
places of business in the performance of
services for the Commission, members shall
be allowed travel expenses, including a per
diem allowance in tieu of subsistence, in the
same manner as persons serving intermittently
in the Government service are allowed
travel expenses under section S703 of
title 5, United States Code-
SEC sees, MEET/NCS.
la) IN GENERAL.—11/ The Commission shall
meet at the call of the Moderator.
'2/ The Moderator shall convene the 1st
meeting of the Commission within 30 days
after the date of the completion of appointments
under section Ha).
lb) MODERATOR.—One member of the Commission
shall be designated by the President
to serve as Moderator of the Commission.
ic) QuoRVit AND PROCEDURE.—The Commission
shall adopt rules regarding quorum
requirements and meeting procedures as the
Commission deems appropriate at the 1st
meeting of the Commission.
Id) VoTiNO.—Decisions and official acts of
the Commission shall be according to the
vole of a majority of members at a property
called meeting.
SEC. sue. DIRECTOR AND.STAFF; E.XPERTS A YD CON.
U'LTANTS.
la) DIRECTOR AND STAFF.—H) Subject to
paragraph 12). the Moderator, with the approval
of the Commission, may employ and
set the rate of pay for a Director and such
staff as the Moderator deems necessary.
12) Rates of pay set under paragraph U)
shall be less than the rate of basic pay payable
under section S316 of title S, United
States Code.
lb) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The Moderator,
with the approval of the Commission,
may procure temjK/rary and intermittent
services under section 3109lb> of liUe 5,
United States Code.
ic) STAFF OF FEDERAL AasNc/Es.—Upon request
of the Commission, the head of any federcEt agency is authorized to detail, on a
reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of
such apencv to the Commission to assist the
Commission in carryins out its duties under this title.
SEC. sm. POWERS OFCO.VH/SSIO.y
(a) HEARJNOS AND SESSIONS.—The Commission
may. for the purpose of carrying out
this title, hold such hearings, sit and act at
such times and ptoces. take such testimony,
and receive such evidence, as the Commission
considers appropriate.
lb) OBTAIN/NO OFFIC/AL DAT.i.-Upon the request
of the Moderator of the Commission.
the Commission may secure directly from
any department or agency of the United
States information necessary to enable it to
carry out this title.
Ic) G/FTs.—The Commission may accept,
use, and dispose of gifts or donations of
services or property.
Id) MAILS,—The Commission may use the
United States mails in the same manner and
under the same conditions as other departments
and agencies of the United .States.
le/ ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERvrcES.—The
Administrator of General Services shall provide
to the Commission on a reimbursable
basts such administrative support services
as the Commission may request
SEC. Sm. REPORT.
The Commission shall transmit to the
President and to each House of Congress a
report not later than July 31 of each year
which contains a defatted stofement of the
activities of the Commission during the preceding
year, including a summary of the
number of public service announcements
produced by the Commission and published
or broadcast
SEC. sees. rERMINATtON.
The Commission shall terminate on a date
which is three years after the date on which
members of the Commission are first appointed.
uniess the President by fiecufive
order, extends the authority of the Commis-
SiOTL
TITLE IX-DENIAL OP TRADE BENEFITS
TO UNCOOPERATIVE MAJOR DRUG
PRODUCINQ OR DRUG-TRANSIT
COUNTRIES
SEC. mi. TARIFF TTtEATMENT OF PRODUCTS OF VNCOnPERAT/
VB MAJOR DRUG PHOOUCING
OR DRCG.TRASSIT COVNTRIBS.
The Trade Act of 1974 is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following:
"TITLE VIll-TARIFF TREATMENT OF
PRODUCTS OF UNCOOPERATIVE
MAJOR DRUG PRODUCING OR DRUGTRANSIT
COUNTRIES
"SEC Ul. SHORT TITLE.
"This title moy be cited as the 'Narcotics
Control Trade Act'.
"SEC. ««. TARIFF TREATMENT OF PRODUCTS OF UNCOOPERATIVE
MAJOR UKIA PRODUCING
OR DRUG-TRANSITCTHNTRLES.
"(a) REQUIRED ACTFION BY PRSSIDBNT.—Subject
to subsection lb), for every major drug
producing country and every major drugtransit
country, the President shalL on or
after March 1, IS37, and March 1 of each
succeeding year, to the ertent considered
necessary by the President to achieve the
purposes of this title—
"13/ deny to any or an of the products of
thai country tariff treatment under the Generalized
System of Preferences, Caribbean
Basin Economic Recovery Act, or any
other law providing preferential tariff treatment;
"12) apply to any or all of the dutiable
products of thai country an adiHtional duty
at a rate not to exceed 50 percent ad valorem
or the sjseciflc rate eaufvoient;
"13/ apply to one or more duty-free products
of the country a duty at o rate not to exceed SO percent ad vatorem,' or
"(4/ take any combination of the actions
described in paragraphs III. 12), and 131.
"lb/ CERTrFICATTOHB; CONCRESS/ONAL
ACTION.—13/ Subsection la) shall not apply
with respect to a country if the President determines
and so certifies to the Congress, at
the time of the submission of the report required
by section 4Slle/ of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1953, that during the previous
year that country has cooperated fully
with the Cnifed Stales, or has taken adequate
steps on its own. in preventing narcotic
and psychotropic drugs and other controlled
substances produced or processed, in ichote or in part, in such country or transported
fhrouffh such country, from being
sold illegally within the jurisdiction cifsuch
country to United Stales Government personnel
or their dependents or from bHng
transported, direcfty or indirectly, into the
United States and in preventing and punishing
the laundering in that country of
drug-related profits or drug-related monies.
"121 In maWnp the certification required
by paragraph III. the President shall give
foremost consideration to whether the actions
of the government of the country have
resulted in the maximum reductions in illicit
drug production which were determined
to be ochievabte pursuant to section
483ie/l4/ of the Foreign Assistance Act of
3961- The President shall also consider
whether such government—
"lAi has taken the legal and law enforcement
measures to enforce in its territory, to
the moximum extent 3SQssible. the elimination
of illicit cultivation and the suppression
of illicit manufacture of and traffic in
narcotic and 3>sychotropie drugs and other
controlled substances, as evidenced by seizures
of such drugs and substances and of illicit
laboratories and the arrest and prosecution
of violators involved in the traffic
H11268 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17,1986
in such drugs and substances significantly
affecting the United States; and
"<BI has taken the legal and law enforcement
steps necessary to eliminate, to the
maximum extent possible, the laundering in
that country of drug-related profits or drugrelated
montei, 03 evidenced by—
"H) the enactment and enforcement of
laws prohibiting such conduct.
"Hi) the willingness of such government to
enter into mutual legal assistance agreements
with the United States governing 'but
not limited to) money laundering, and
"(Hi) the degree to which such government
otherwise cooperates with United States law
enforcement authorities on anti-money
laundering efforts.
"(3) Subsection (a) shall apply to a country
without regard to paragraph tl) of this
su6iec£ton if the (Songress enacts, within 30
days of continuous session after receipt of a
certification under paragraph H), a joint
rcsoiuMon disapproving the determination
of the President contained in that certification.
"(4) If the President takes action under
subsection (a), that action shall remain in
effect unlit—
"(A) the President makes the certification
under paragraph (1), a period 0/ 30 days of
continuous session of Congress elapses, and
during that period the Congress does not
enact a joint resolution of disapproval; or
"(B) the President submits at any other
time a ceriificalion of the matters descril>ed
in paragraph (1) with respect to thai country,
a period of 30 days of continuous session
of Congress elapses, and during that
period the Congress does not enact a joint
resolution of disapproving the determination
contained in that certification.
"(S) For the purpose of expediting the consideration
and enactment of joint resolutions
under paragraphs (3) and (4)~
"(A) a motion to proceed to the consideration
of any such joint resolution after it
has been reported by the Committee on
Ways ond Means shall be treoted as highly
privileged in the House of Representatives;
and
"(B) a motion to proceed to the consideration
of any such joint resolution after it
has been reported by the Committee on Finance
shall be treated as privileged in the
Senate.
"(c) Dv/unoN OP ACTION.—The action
taken by the President under sul>section (a)
shall apply to the products of a foreign
country that are entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, during the
period that such action is in effect.
-NFC S93. SVGARqUOTA.
"Notwithstanding any other provision of
law. the President may not allocate any limitation
imposed on the quantity of sugar to
any country which has a Government involved
in the trade of iUicit narcotics or is
failing to cooperate with the United Slates
in narcotics enforcement activities as defined
in section 802<bJ as determined by the
President.
-SSC. set. PROCRKflK RffNlKTS.
"The President shall include as a part of
the annual report required under secHon
481(e)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1981 <32 V.S.C. 2291(B)(1)) on evaluation of
progress that each major drug producing
country and each major drug-transit country
has made during the reporting period in
achieving the objectives set forth in section
802(b).
-SFC. SOS. DEFIMTIO.NS.
"For purposes of this titie—
"(1) continuity of a session of Congress is
broken only by an adjournment of the Congress
sine die, and the days on which either
House is not in session because of on adjournment
of more than three days to a day
certain are excluded in the computation of
the period indicated;
"(2) the term 'major drug producing country'
means a country producing five metric
tons or more of opium or opium derivative
during a fiscal year or producing five hundred
metric tons or more of coca or marijuana
las the case may be) during a fiscal year;
and
"(3) the term 'major drug-transit country'
means a country—
"(A) that is a significant direct source of
illicit narcotic or psychotropic drugs or
other controlled substances significantly dtfecting
the United States;
"(B) through tofticii are transported such
drugs or substances; or
"(C) through which significant sums of
drug-related profits or monies are laundered
with the knowledge or complicity of the government;
and
"(4) the term 'narcotic and psychotropic
drugs and other controlled substances' has
the same meaning os is pti>en by any applicable
international narcotics control agreement
or domestic law of the country or
countries concerned.".
SEC. aosi. CO.VFORMINC AME,\D.ilESTS.
(a) GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PRSFERENCES.—
Section $02(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 119
U.S.C. 2482(b)) is amended—
(1) by striking out paragraph ($);
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (6), (7),
and (8) as paragraphs (5). (8), and (7); and
(3) by striking out "(S)," in the last sentence.
lb) CARIBBEAN BASIN BIXNOUIC RECOVERV.-
Section 2121b) of the Caribbean Basin
Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2702(b))
is amended—
(1) by inserting "and" after the semicolon
at the end of paragraph (8);
(2) by striking out paragraph (6); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (7) as
paragraph (8).
TITLE IX—BALLISTIC KNIFE PROHIBITION
SEC. SM/. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the "Ballistic
Knife Prohibition Act of 1986".
SEC. sect PROHIBITION OF POSSESSION. M.tNVFACTi'RE,
SALE. A.VD IMPORTATION OF
BALUSTK KNIVES.
The Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the introduction,
or manufacture for introduction,
into interstate commerce of switchblade
knives, and for other purposes" 115
V.S.C. 1232 et seq.) is amended by adding at
the end the following;
"SEC. 7. (a) Whoever knowingly possesses,
manufactures, setts, or imports a ballistic
knife shall be fined as provided in title IS,
United States Code, or imprisoned not more
than ten years, or 6otA.
"(b) Whoever possesses or uses a fcatZlstic
knife in the commission of a Federal or
State crime of violence shall be fined as provided
in fitte 18. United States Code, or imprisoned
not less than /ii>e years ond not
more than ten years, or tioth.
"(c) The escepfions protrfded in paragraphs
(1), (2), and (3) of section 4 with respect
to switchblade knives shall apply to
ballistic knives under subsection (a) of this
section.
"(d) As used in this section, the term 'ballistic
knife' means a knife with a detachable
blade that is propelled by o spring-operated
mechanism.".
.1EC SWl NONMAILABtUry OF BALLISTIC KNIVES.
Section 1716 of title 18. United Stales
Code, is amended by inserting after subsection
(h) and before the Arst undesignated
paragraph after such subsection the following:
"liJd/ Any ballistic knife shall be subject
to the same restrictions and penaltia provided
under subsection (g) for Amines described
in the first sentence of that subsection.
"(2) As used in this subsection, the term
'ballistic knife' means a knife with a detachable
blade that is propelled by a spring-operated
mechanism.".
The amendments made by this title shall
take effect 30 days after the date of enactment
of this title.
TITLE .11 -HO.VELESS EUGIBIUTY
CLARIFICATION ACT
SEC. IIOOI. SBORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the "Homeless
Eligibility Clarification Act".
Subline A—Emergeney Food for the Homeless
SEC IIOOL .HEALS SERVED TO HO.HELBSS INDIVIDLALS.
(a) DEFINITION OP FOOD.—Section 3(g) of
the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C.
Z012(g)) is amended—
(1) in clause (1), by striking out "and (8)"
and inserting in lieu thereof "(8), and (9)";
(2) by striking out "and" ot the end of
clause (7); and
(3) by inserting before the period at the
end thereof the following; ", and (9) in the
cose of households that do not reside in permanent
dwellings and households that have
no fixed mailing addresses, meals prepared
for and served by a public or pripote nonprofit
establishment (approved try an appropriate
State or local agency) that feeds suck
individuals and by a public or prtvate nonpro/
it shelter (approved by an appropriate
State or local agency) in which such fcouseholds
temporarily reside (except that such
establishments and shelters may only request
voluntary use of food stamps by such
individuals and may not request such households
to pay more than the average cost of
the food contained in a meal served by the
establishment or shelter)".
(b) DBFiNtTioN or HOUSEHOLD.—The last
sentence of section 3(i) of such Act (7 V.S.C.
2012(i)) is amended by inserting after "battered
women and children," the following:
"residents of public or private nonprofit
shelters for individuals who do not reside in
permanent dwellings or have no fixed mailing
addresses, who are otherwise eligible for
coupons,
(c) DsnNmoN OF RETAIL FOOD STORE.—Section
3ik)l2) of such Act (7 V.S.C. 2012(k)(2))
is amended by striking "and (8)" and inserting
in lieu thereof "(8), and (9)".
(d) PARTICIPATION OF ESTABUSHMENTS AND
SHELTERS.-Section 9 of such Act (7 U.&C.
2018) is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following new subsection;
"(g) In on area in uiftieh the Secretory, in
consultation with the Inspector General of
the Department of Agriculture, Ands evidence
that the participation of on establishment
or shelter described in section 3(g)(9)
damages the program's integrity, the Secretary
shall limit the participation o/such establishment
or shelter in the food stamp program,
unless the establishment or shelter is
the only establishment or shelter serving the
area.".
<e) REDEMPTION OF COUPONS.—The first sentence
of section 10 of such Act <7 V.SC
2019) is amended—
(1) by striking out "and" after "battered
women and children,and
(2) by inserting after "blind residents" the
following; and puWic or priuote nonproAt
establishments, or pubtic or private nonprofit
shelters that feed individuals who do
not reside in permanent dwellings and individuals
who have no /txed mailing addresses".
( f ) ( t ) T h e a m e n d m e n t s m a d e b y t h i s s e c tion
shall become effective, and be impleOctober
17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H11269
•nie.nted by issuance affinal regnlaliona. not
later than April I. i987.
tZ) Not later Chan September 30. 19S8, Ihe
Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the
Committee on Agriculture of Ihe House of
Representatives ond the Committee on Agriculture.
Nutrition, and Forestry oA tfte
Senate a report that evaluates the program
estabtished by the amerutmenls made by this
section, including any proposed legislative
recommendations.
13) The amendments made by this section
shall cease to be effective after September 30, mo.
Subtitle B Job Training lor the Homeless
SEC. /Jew. JOB TRAiShStl FOR THE HOMELESS.
ta> GOVERHOR'S COORDMATION AMP SFSCIAL
SERVICES PLAN TO INCLUDE HOMELESS.—(It
Section iZlibXIl of the Job Training Partnership
i4et 120 U.S.C. ISSlfbllV) is omended
by inserting after "rehabilitation agencies"
a comma and the foUoicing: "programs
for the homeless".
<2) Section IZticXS) of the Job Training
Partnership Act is amended by inserting
after "offenders" a comma and the foUavjing:
'homeless individuals".
lb) BARR/ERS TO EMPLODSSNT RULE.—Seclion
203<a)'2) of the Job Training Partnership
Act IZ9 V.S.C. 1603(aXZ)) is amended
by striking out "or addicts" and inserting in
lieu thereof "addicts, orhomeless".
Sabtltie C—Entitlements EiiglbiUtg
SEC. //Mi, TREATMENT OF HO.UELESS INDIVIDfALS
ELIGIBLE UNDER SSI A.\D MEDICAID
PROGRAMS
ta) SSI PROGRAM.—Section l03Ue> of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1383re)) is
omended by adding at the end the foUowing
new paragraph:
"(3) The Secretary shall provide a method
of making payments under this title to an eligible
individual who does not reside in a
permanent du?etttns7 or does not have a fixed
home or mailing address.
fb) MEDICAID PRoaRAM.—Section l902faJ of
sucft i4ct <42 U.S.C. 73960/0// is amended—
m by striking "and" at the end of paragraph
<45).
12) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph 148) and inserting in lieu thereof
and", and
13) by adding at the end the foUoiDing new
paragraph:
"<47) provide a method of making cards
evidencing eligibility for medical assistance
available to. an eligible indiuiduoi «cho does
not reside in a permanent dwelling or does
not have a fixed home or mailing address.".
<cl EFFECTIVE DATE.—<1) The amendment
made by subsection <a) shall become effective
on the date of the enactment of this Act
<2) The amendments made by subsection
<b) shall become effective on January I,
1987. without regard to whether or not final
regulations to carry out such amendments
have been promulgated by such date.
I d ) AFDC.—No l a t e r than six months a f t e r
the date of enactment of this Act and after
consultation with the States administering
plans under Title IV of the Social Security
Act, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall issue guidelines to the Stofes
for providing benefits under Title IV to a dependent
child who does not reside in a permanent
dwelling or does not have a fixed
home or mailing address.
SEC. Iioet. APPUCATION FOR S.<H A.VD POOD STAMP
BENEFITS Br SSI PHERELSASE INDIVIDUALS.
Section 7637 of the Social Security Act <42
U.S.C. 1383) is amended by adding at the
end thereof the following new subsection:
"PRE-RELEASE PROCEDURES FOR
INSTITVTIONAUZED PERSONS
"<j) Ihe Secretory shall develop a system
under which an individual can apply for
supplemental security income benefits
under this title prior to the discharge or release
of the individual from a public institution.
The Secretary and the Secretory o/4yncullure
shall develop a procedure under
which an indiutduol tcfto oppttes for supplemental
security income benefits under this
title shall also be permitted to apply for participation
in the food stamp program by
executing a single application.".
SEC. IIM. DELIVERY OF VETEtUNSHENEFirs PAYMENTS.
<a) IN (GENERAL.—<1) Section 3003 of title
38. United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end thereof the fallowing new
subsection: "to Benefits under laws administered by
the Veterans' Administration may not be
denied on oppticont on Che basis that the
applicant does not have a mailing address.".
<2) Section 3020 of title 38. United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new subsection:
"<f)<l) In the case of a payee who does not
have a mailing address, payments of monetary
benefits under laws administered by the
Veterans' Administration shall be delivered
under an appropriate method prescribed
pursuant to paragraph 12) of this subsection.
"<2) The Administrator shall prescribe an
appropriate method or methods for the delivery
of payments of monetary benefits
under laws administered by ihe Veterans'
Administration in cases described in porograph
II) of this subsection. To the maximum
extent practicable, such method or
methods shall be designed to ensure the delivery
of payments in such cases.".
<b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—IV The amendment
made by subsection ra/'7/ shall take effect
on the date of enactment of this AcL
<2) The amendment made by subsection
<aX2) shall take effect with respect to payments
made on or after October 1, 1986.
Strike out title XII and insert in lieu
thereof the following:
TITLE XU—COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
SAFETY ACT OF ms
SEcnoN iieai. SHORT TITLE A.ND TABLE OF
co.vTE.v'n.
( a ) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited
as the "Commercial Motor fefticte Safety
Act of 1986".
<b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 12001. Short title.
Sec. 12002. Limitation on number of driver's
licenses.
Sec, 12002. Noliflcation requirements.
Sec. 12004. Employer responsibilities.
Sec. 12005. Testing of operators.
Sec. 12006. Commercial driver's ticense.
Sec. 12007. Commercial driver's license information
system.
Sec. 12008. Federal disgualijicatione
Sec. 12009. Requirements for State participation.
Sec. 12010. Grant program.
Sec. IZOII. Withholding of highway funds
for Slate noncompliance.
Sec. 12012. Penalties.
Sec. 12013. Waiver authority.
Sec. 12014. Commercial motor vehicle safety
grants.
Sec 12015. Truck brake regulations.
Sec. 12016. Ttodor demonstration project
Sec 12017. Limitation on statutory construction.
Sec. 12018. Regulations.
Sec. 12019. Definitions.
SEC. I test UMFTATION ONNUMBER OF DRIVERS UCENSES.
Effective July 1.1987, no person icfto operates
a commercial motor vehicle shall at
any time have more than one driver's l i cense.
except duriny the 10-day period beginning
on the date such person is issued a
driver's license and except whenever a State
law enacted on or before June 1. 1986, requires
sucft person to have more than one
driver's license. The second eiception in the
preceding sentence shall not be effective
after December 31. 1989.
SEC. IIM. NOTIFICATIONREQLTRE.UE.VTS.
( a ) NOTIFICATION OF VIOLATIONS.—
( 1 ) To STATES.—Effective July 1 . 1987, each
person who operates a ctrmmercial vehicle,
who has a driver's license issued by a Stale,
and who violates a Stale or local law relating
to motor vehicle traffic control (other
than a parking violation) in any other State
shall notify o State official designated by
the State which Issued such license of such
violation, within 30 days after the date such
person is found to have committed su^ violatioru
<2) To EMFLOVERS.—Effective July 1. 7967,
each person who operates a commercial vehicle.
who has a driver's license issued by a
State, and who violates a State or local law
relating to motor vehicle traffic control
(other than a parking violation) shall notify
his or her employer of such violation, within
30 days after the date such person is found
to have committed such violation.
l b ) NonncAnoN or SUSPENSIONS.—Effective
July 1. 1987. each employee who has a
driver's license susTWttded, revoked, or cancelled
by a State, who loses the right to operate
a commercial motor vehicle in a State
for any period, or who is disquoti/ied from
operating o commercial motor vehicle for
any period shall notify his or her employer
of such suspension, revocation, cancellation,
lost right, or disqualificalion within
39 daps after the date of such suspension,
revocation cancellation, lost right, or disqualification
<c) NOTIFICATION or PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT.—
<1) GENERAL RULE.—Effective July 1. 1987,
subject to paragraph 12) of this subsection
each person who operates a commercial
motor vehicle and applies for employment
as on operator of a commercial motor vehicle
with an employer shall notify of the time
Of such application the employer of his or
her previous employment as an operator of
0 commercial motor vehicle,
( 2 ) PERIOD or PREVIOVS sMPLovMENT.—The
Secretary shall establish by regulation the
period for which previous employment must
be notified under paragraph (11. except that
such period shall not be less than o 76-vear
period ending on the date of application for
employment
SEC /sew. EMPLOYER BBSPONSIBIL/TiES.
Effective July 1, 1987, no employer shall
knowingly allow, permit, or authorise an
employee to operate a commerciot motor veh
i c l e i n t h e United States duriny any
period—
I I ) i n tvAicft such employee has o driver's
license suspended, revoked, or conceited by a
Stale, has lost the right to operate a commercial
motor vehicle in a State, or has been
disqualified from operating a commercial
motor vehicle; or
( 2 ) in which such employee has more than
1 driver's license, except during the 10-day
period beginning on the dale such employee
is issued a driver's license and except whenever
a State law enacted on or before June 1,
1986, requires such employee to have more
than one driver's license.
The second exception in paragraph <21 shall
not be effective after December 31.1989.
SEC llMi. TESTING OPOPERATORS.
(al ESTAJBLISHMENT or MINIMVM FEDERAL
STANDARDS.—Not later thon July IS, 1988. the
H11270 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
Secretary shall issue reyulalions to establiah
mifitmum Federal standards for testing and
ensuring the fitness of persons who operate
commercial motor vehicles. Such regulations—
H) shall establish minimum Federal
standards for written tests and driving tests
of persons who operate such vehicles:
121 shall reguire a driving test of each
person who operates or will operate a commercial
motor vehicle in a vehicle which is
representative of the type of vehicle such
person operates or will operate:
(3> shall establish minimum Federal testing
standards for operation of commercial
motor vehicles and, if the Secrelary considers
appropriate to carry out the objectives of
this title, may establish different minimum
testing standards for different classes of
commercial motor vehicles:
(4) shall ensure that each person taking
such tests has a working knowledge of <Al
regulations pertaining to safe operation of a
commercial motor vehicle issued by the Secretary
and contained in title 49 of the Code
of Federal Regulations, and IB! any safely
system of such vehicle;
(5! in the case of a person who operates or
will operate a commercial motor vehicle carrying
a hazardous material, shall ensure—
(A) that such person is gualified to operate
a commercial motor vehicle in acconlance
with all regulations pertaining to motor vehicle
transportation of such material issued
by the Secretary under the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act: and
IB) that such person has a working ktiowledge
of—
(i) such reptlations.
Hi) handling of such material,
liii) the operation of emergency eouipment
used in response to emergencies arising
out of the Iransportaiion of such material.
and
tiv) appropriate response procedures to be
followed in such emergencies:
16) shall establish minimum scores for
passing such tests:
<7) shall ensure that each person taking
such tests is guaiified to operate a commercial
motor vehicle under the regulations
issued by the Secretary and contained in
title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations to
the extent such regulations are applicable to
such person: and
IS) may require—
IA) issuance of a certification of fitness to
operate a commercial motor vehicle to each
person who passes such tests: and
IB) such person to have a copy of such certification
in his or her possession whenever
such person is operating a commercial
motor vehicle.
lb) RBQUIRESIEKT roR OPERATION OF CMV,—
(1) GENERAI. RL'LS.—Except as provided
under paragraph 12), no person may operate
a commercial motor vehicle unless such
person has take7t and passed a written and
driving test to operate such vehicle which
meets the minimum Federal standards established
by the Secretary under subsection
la).
12) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary may issue
regulations which provide that a person—
(A) utho passes a driving test for operation
of a commercial motor vehicle In accordance
with the minimum standards established
under subsection la), and
IB) who has a driver's license which is not
suspended, revoked, or cancelled,
may operate such a vehicle for a period not
to exceed 90 days.
13) EfFBcnvs DATE.—Paragraph il) shall
lake effect on such date as the Secretary
Shalt establish by regulation. Such date shall
be as soon as practicable after the date of
the enactment of this title but not later than
AprU 1,1992.
let BASIC GRANT PROORASI.—
11) EuamiLITY FOR FISCAL YEARS ISS7, ISSS.
AND 13$}.—The Secretary may matce a grant
to a State in any of fiscal years 1987, 1988,
and 1989—
IA) if the State enters into an agreement
with the Secretary to develop a program for
testing and ensuring the fitness of persons
who operate commercial motor vehicles: ond
IB) if the State has in effect and enforces
in such fiscal year a law which provides
that any person with a blood alcohol concentration
of 0.10 percent or greater when
operating a commercial motor vehicle is
deemed to be driving while under the influence
of alcohol
12) EUAIBILITY AFTER FISCAL YEAR l3S3.—The
Secretary may make a grant to a Slate in o
fiscal year beginning after September 30,
1989—
(A) if the Stale enters into an agreement
with the Secretary—
H) to adopt and administer in sucft fiscal
year a program for testing and ensuring the
fitness of persons who operate commercial
motor iieftictes in accordance with all of the
minimum Federal standards established by
the Secretary under subsection la): and
lit) to require that operators of commercial
motor vehicles have passed written and
driving tests which comply with such minimum
standards: and
IB) if the State has in effect and enforces
in such fiscal year a law which provides
that any person with a blood alcohol concentration
of 0.10 percent or greater when
operating a commercial motor vehicle is
deemed to be driving while under the influence
of alcohol
13) ADIIINISTRATION OF DRIVINO TEST.—A
State—
(A) may administer driving tests referred
to in paragraph 12) and section 120091a): or
IB) may enter into an agreement, approved
by the Secretary, to administer such
tests with a person lincluding a department,
agency or instrumentality of a local government)
which meets such minimum standards
as the Secretary shall establish by regulation—
li) if the agreement allows the Secretary
and the Stale each to conduct random examinations.
inspections, and audits of such
testing without prior notification; and
Hi) if the State conducts at least annuaUy
one onsiie inspection of such testing,
14) MINIMVM AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The Secretary
shaU determine the amount of grants in
a fiscal year to be made under this subsection
to o State eligible to receive such grants
in the fiscal year; except that—
iA) sucti Stote shall not be granted less
than 8100,000 under this subsection in the
fiscal year: and
IB) to the extent that any States are granted
more than 8100,000 per State in the fiscal
year under tftis subsection, the Secretory
shall ensure that such States are treated equitably.
15) IJMITATION ON USE OF FVNDS.—
IA) IN FISCAL YEARS I3S7, I3SS, A.ID I9S9.—A
Slate receiving a grant under this subsection
in fiscal year 1987, 1988. or 1989 may
only use the funds provided under such
grant for developing a proprom for testing
and ensuring the fitness of persoru who operate
commercial motor vehicles.
IB) THEREAFTER.—A State receiving a grant
under this subsection in any fiscal year beginning
after September 30, 1989, may only
use the funds provided under such grant for
testing operators of commercial motor vehicles.
16) DEVELOPMENT OF TESTING PROGRAM DESCRIBED.—
For purposes of this suOsection
and subsection Id), development of a program
for testing and ensuring the fitness of
persons who operate commercial motor vehi-
October 17, 1986
cles inctades but is not limiled to studies of
the number of vehicles which will need to be
tested under such program In a calendar
year, studies of facilities at which testing of
such persons could be conducted, and studies
of additional resources lincluding personnel)
which will be necessary to conduct
such festinp.
17) FvNDiNo.-Tkere shall be available to
the Secretary to carry out this subsection
86,000,000 from funds made available Co
carry out section 404 of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act of 1982 for each of
fiscal years 1987. 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991.
Id) SUPPLEMENTAL GRANT PROGRAM.—
ID EuGiBiuTY AND PVRPOsES.—The Secretary
may make in o fiscal year grants to
States eligible to receive grants under sutisection
Ic) in such fiscal year. A grant made
under this subsection in fiscal year 1987,
1988, or 1989 shall be used for developing a
program for testing and ensurinp the fitness
of persons who operate commercial motor
vehicles. A grant made under this subsection
in any fiscal year beginning after September
30, 1989. shall be used for testing operators
of commercial motor vehicles.
12) DisTRiBVTioN.—Funds granted under
this subsection in a fiscal year beginning
after September 30, 1989, shall be distributed
among the Stales eligible to receive grants
under subsection Id in such fiscal year on
the basis of the number of written and driving
tests administered, and the number of
drivers' licenses for operation of commercial
motor vehicles, issued in the preceding fiscal
year.
13) FUNDING.—There shall be available to
the Secretary to carry out this subsection—
IA) 83,000,000 from funds made available
to carry out section 402 of title 23, United
States Code, by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration for each of fiscal
years 1987. and 1988:
IB) 83.000,000 from funds made available
to carry out section 404 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 for
each of fiscal years 198$, 1990, and 1991.
le) LIMITATIONS ON GRANT PROGRAMS.-
11) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—The Secretary
may not make a grant to any State under
this section unless such State agrees that the
aggregate expendiCure of funds of the State
and political subdivisions thereof, exclusive
of Federal funds, for testing of operators of
commercial motor vehicles will be maintained
at a level which does not fall below
the average level of such expenditure for its
last two fiscal years preceding the date of
the enactment of this title.
12) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—Funds made
available to carry out this subsection shall
remain available for obligation by the State
for the fiscal year for which such funds are
made available. Any of such funds not obligated
before the last day of such period shall
no longer be available for obligation by such
State and shall be available to the Secretory
for carrying out the purposes of this title
Funds made ovoitobic pursuant to this section
shall remain available until expended.
13) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.-Notwithstanding
any other provision of law. approval by
the Secretary of a grant to a State under this
section shall be deemed to be a contractual
obligation of the United States for payment
of the amount of the grant
SEC. H0M. COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S UCBNSB.
Not later than July 15. 1988, the Secretary,
after consultation with the States, shall
issue regulations establishing, minimum
uniform standards for the issuance of commercial
drivers' licenses by the Stales and
for information to be contained on such licenses.
Such standards shall, at a minimum,
require that—
October 17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
tit each person who is issued a commerciaf
dhoer's license passes a wrillen and
driving test for the operation of a commercial
motor vehicle which complies with the
minimum Federal standards established by
the Secretary under section 12005'a):
121 the commercial drivers' licenses are. to
the maaimum extent practicable, tamper
proof; and
(3) each commercial driver's license contain
the following information:
(A) the name and address of the person to
whom such Jieense is issued and o physical
description of such person;
IB) the social security number or such
other number or information as the Secretary
determines appropriate to identify such
person:
IC> the class or type of commercial motor
vehicle or vehicles which such person is authorized
to operate under such license;
ID) the name of the State which issued
such license; and
IE) the dates between which such license is
valid.
SEC. izaor. CNMMERAAL DHIVF.R'S UCESSE ISFORMAT/
OS SRSTF.I.
(a) DEtDUNE.—Nol later than January 1,
2S8S. the Secretary shall either enter into an
agreement under subsection lb) for operation
o.f. or establish under subsection Ic),
an information system which will serve as a
clearinghouse and depository of viformation
pertaining to the licensing and identification
of operators of commercial motor vehicles
and the disqualification of such operators
from operating commercial motor vehicles.
In carrying out this section, the Secretary
consult the Stales.
lb) AOREEMEIJT FOR USE OF NON-FEDERAL
SYSTEM.—
IJ) REVTEW.—Not later than January I.
1988. the Secretary shall conduct a review of
information systems utilized by I or more
States pertaining to the driving status of operators
of motor vehicles and other State-operafcd
information systems for the purpose
of determining whether or not any of such
systems could be utilized to carry out this
section.
12) AGREEMENT.—If the Secretary determines
that one of the informalion systems
reviewed under paragraph II) could be utilized
to carry out this section and the State
or Stales utilizing such system agree to the
use of such system for carrying out this seclion,
the Secretary may enter into an agreement
with such State or States for the use of
such system in accordance with the provisions
of this section and section 120091c).
13) TERMS OF AGREEMENT.—Any agreement
entered into under this subsection shall contain
such terms and conditions as the Secretary
considers necessary to carry out the objectives
of this title.
Ic) ESTABLISHMENT.—If the Secrelary does
not enter into an agreement under subsection
lb), the Secretary shall establish an information
system pertaining to the driving
status and licensing of operators of commercial
motor vehicles in accordance with the
provisions of this section.
Id) MINIMUM INFORMATION.—The information
system under this section shall, at a
minimum, include the following information
concerning each operator of a commercial
motor vehicle:
11) Such information as the Secretary considers
appropriate to ensure identification
of such operator.
12) The name and address of such operator
and a physical description of such operator.
(3) The social security number of such operator
or such other number or information
cs the Secretary determines appropriate to
identify such operator.
14) The name of the State which issued the
driver's license to such operator.
IS) The dales between which such license
is valid.
18) Whether or not such operator has or
has had a driver's license which authorized
such person to operate a commercial motor
vehicle suspendeiL revoked, or cancelled by a
Stale, has lost the right to operate a commercial
motor vehicle in a State for any
period, or has been disqualified from operating
a commercial motor vehicle,
le) A VAILABILRRY of INFORMATION.-
U) To STATE—Upon request of a Stale, the
Secretary or the operator of the information
system, as the case may be, may make available
to such State information in the information
system under this section.
12) To THE EMPLOYEE.—Upon Tcquest Of an
employee, the Secretary or the operator of
the information system, as the case may be,
may make available to such employee information
in the information system relating
to such employee.
13) To EMPLOVER.—Upon request of an employer
or prospective employer of an employee
and after notification of such employee,
Che Secretary or the operator of the
information system, as the case may be, may
make available to such employer or prospective
employer information in the information
system relating to such employee.
(4) To THE SECRETARY. —Upon the rcQuest of
the SecreiarT/. the operator of the information
system shall make available to the Secretary
such information pertaining to the
driving status and licensing of operators of
comwerciot motor vehicles (including the
information required by subsection Id)) as
the Secretary moy request
If) COLLECTION OF FEES.—If the Secretary
establishes an information system under
this section, the Secretary shall establish a
fee system for utilization of the information
system. The amount of fees collected pursuant
to this subsection in ony fiscal year
shall as nearly as possible equal the costs of
operating the information system in such
fiscal year. The Secretary shall deposit fees
collected under this subsection in the Highway
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit
Account).
Ig) FC7JVDWG,—There shall be available to
the Secretary to carry out this section not to
ejrceed S2.000.000 from funds made available
to carry out section 402 of title 23. United
States Code, by Che National Highway
Safety Trajfic Administration for each of
fiscal years 1987. 1988. and 1989. Such/unds
shall remain available until expended.
SEC. ISOOS. FEDERAL Dlsqt'AUFIC.ATIONS
la) DRUNK DRIVING; LEAVING THE SCENE OF
AN ACCIDENT: FELONIES.—
(1) FIRST OFFENSE.-
(A) GENERAL RULE.—Except as provided in
subparagraph IB) and paragraph 12), the
Secretary shall disqualify from operating a
commercial motor vehicle for a period of not
less than 1 year each person—
li) who is found to have committed a first
violation-
ID of driving a commercial motor vehicle
while under the influence of alcohol or a
controlled substance, or
III) of leaving the scene of an accident involving
a commerciat motor vehicle operated
by such person: or
Hi) who uses a commercial motor vehicle
in the commission of a felony tother than a
felony described in subsection lb)).
IB) SPECIAL RULE.—If the vehicle operated
or used in connection with the violation or
the commission of the felony referred to in
subparagraph lA) is transporting a hazardous
material required by die Secretary la be
placarded under section 105 of the Hazardous
Materials Transportation Act 149 U.S.C.
App. 1804), the Secretary shall disqualify the
person for a period of not less than 3 years.
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12) SECOND OFFENSE.—
(A) GENERAL RULE.—Subject to subparagraph
IB), the Secrelary shall disqualify
from operating a commercial motor vehicle
for life each person—
H) who is found to have committed more
than one violation of driving o commercial
motor vehicle while under the influence of
alcohol or a controlled substance;
Hi) uiJio is found to have committed more
than one violation of leaving the scene of an
accident involving a commercial motor vehicle
operated by such person;
mil who uses a commercial motor vehicle
in the commission of more than one felony
arising out of different criminal episodes; or
(iv)il) who is found to have committed a
violation described in clause H) or Hi), and
III) who is found to have committed a violation
described in the other of such clauses
or uses a commercial motor vehicle in the
commission of a felony.
(B) SPECIAL RULE.—The Secretary may
issue regulations which establish guidelines
(including conditions) under which a disqualification
for life under subparagraph
(A) may be reduced to a period of not less
than 10 years.
lb) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE FELONIES.—TJie
Secretary shall disqualify from operating a
commercial motor vehicle for life each
person who uses a commercial motor vehicle
in the commission of a felony involving
manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing
a controlled substance, or possession with
intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense
a controlled substance.
Ic) SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS—
U) SECOND VIOLATION.—The Secretary shall
disqualify from operaltng a commercial
motor vehicle for a period of not less than 60
days each person who, in a 3-year period, is
found to have committed 2 serious trajfic
violations involving a commercial motor vehicle
operated by suck person.
12) THIRD VIOLATION.—The Secretary shall
disqualify from operating a commercial
motor vehicle for a period of not less than
120 days each person who, in a 3-yeor
period, is found to have committed 3 serious
trajfic violations involving a commercial
motor vehicle operated by such person.
Id) ENFORCEMENT OF DRINKING AND DRIVING
REGULATIONS.—
11) OUT OF SERVICE.—Not later than 1 year
after the dale of enactment of this title, the
Secretary, for purposes of enforcing section
392.5 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
shall issue regulations which establish and
enforce an out of service period of 24 hours
for any person who violates such section.
(2) VIOLATIONS OF OUT-OF-SERVKE ORDERS.-
No person shall violate an oul-of-service
order issued under paragraph 111 of this subsection.
13) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Not later
than 1 year after the date of the enactment
of this title, the Secretary shall issue regulations
establishing and enforcing requirements
for reporting of out-of-service orders
issued pursuant to regulations issued under
paragraph II). Regulations issued under
this paragraph shall, at a minimum, require
an operator of a commercial motor vehicle
who is issued such an order to report such
issuance to his or her employer and to the
State which issued such operator his or her
driver's license.
fe) LIMITATION ON APPLICABILITY.—
12) GENERAL RULE.—Notwithstanding any
requirement of subsections (a), lb), and Ic)
of this section, the Secretary does not have
to disqualify from operating a commercial
motor vehicle any person who has been disqualified
from operating a commercial
motor vehicle in accordance with such requirement
by the State which issued the
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iriveT'$ license which authoriieit such
person to operate such vekicle.
( Z ) S A T I S f A C T I O H O F S T A T T D / S O M U T r C A -
noy.—For purposes of paragraph tit, JIMpension.
revocation, or cancellation of a
driver's license which authorizes a person to
operate a commercial motor vehicle bp a
State shall be treated as disqualification of
such person from operating such vehicle.
<fj BLOOD ALCOHOL Co/KEifrRATtON
LEVEL.—
tit STVDV.—
<A) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—Not
later than 30 days after the date of the enactment
of this title, the Secreta^ shall undcTtake
to enter into appropriate arrangements
ioiCh the National Academy of Sciences
to conduct a study of the appropriateness
of reducing the blood alcohol concentration
level at or above which a person
when operating a commercial motor vehicle
is deemed to be driving while under the influence
of alcohol from O.IO to Q.Oi percent
(B! REPORT.—In entering info any arrangements
with the National Acadenm of
Sciences for conducting the study under this
subsection, the Secretary shall request the
National Academy of Sciences to submit
not later than I year after the date of the enactment
of this title, to the Secretary a
report on the results of jucft study.
tZJ RriLEMAKiNG.—Not later than I year
after the date of the enactment of this title,
the Secretary shall commence a rulemaking
to determine whether or not, for purposes of
this section and section 12009 of this Act,
the blood alcohol concentration level at or
above which a person when operating a
commercial motor vehicle is deemed to be
driving while under the influence of alcohol
should be reduced from 0.10 to 0.04 percent
tor some other percentage less than O.IO).
13) fssvANCE OF RULE.—Not later than 2
years after the date of Ike enactment of this
title, the Secretary shall issue a rule which
establishes, for purposes of this section and
section 12009 of this Act. the blood alcohol
concentration level of or above which a person when operating a commercial motor
vehicle shall be deemed to be driving tohffe
under the influence of alcohol at O.IO percent
or such lesser percentage as the Secretary
determines appropriate.
'4) FAILVRE OF THE SECRETARY TO ISSUE
RULE.—If the Secretary dues not issue a rule
described in paragraph 13) in the Z-year
period beginning on the date of the enactment
of this title, for purposes of this section
and section 12009 of this Act. the blood
alcohol concentration level at or almve
which a person operating a commercial
motor vehicle shall 6e deemed to 6e driving
while under the influence of alcohol shall be
0.04 percent
SEC. IM*. REQI:IHE.YE.NTS FUR .STATE PARTICIPATION.
to) IN GENERAL.—In order not to have
funds withheld under sccllon 12011 from apportionment
each State shall compfy with
the following requirements:
11) TESTING PROGRAM.—The State shall
ado.Dl and administer a program for testing
and ensuring the fitness of persons to operate
commercial motor vehicles in accordance
with all of the minimum Federal standards
established by the Secretary under section
IZOOSIa).
<2) TEST srANOARDS.-The State shall not
issue a commercial driver's license to a
person unless such person passes a loriffen
and driving test for the operation of a comSmKecr/
ci ial motor vehicle which compJies loifft minimum standards.
13) DRIVING WHILE UNDER THE INILUENCE—
The Slate shall have in effect and enforce a
law which provides thai any person with a
blood alcohol concentration level at or
above the JctW established by or under section
1200$ff) when operating a commercial
motor vehicle is deemed to be driving while
under the influence of alcohol
<4) CDL ISSUANCE AND INFORMATION.—The Sfofe shall authorise a person to operate a
commercial motor vehicle only by issuance
of a commercial driver's license which contains
the information described in section
12006la)t3'.
tS) ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF ucENSiNa.-At
least 60 days before issuance of o commercial
driver's license or such shorter period as
the Secretary may establUh by regulation,
the State shall notify the Secretary or the operator
of the information system under section
12007, as the ease may be, of the proposed
issuance of such license and such
other information as the Secretary may require
to ensure identification of the person
applying for such license.
(6) INFORMATION RSQUE.ST.—Before issuance
of a commercial driver's license to a person,
the Slate shali request from any other State
which has issued a commercial driver's license
to such person aU information pertaining
to the driving record of such person.
tl) NOTIFICATION OF UCENEINQ.—Within 30
days after issuance of a comTncTciaZ driver's
license, the State shall notify the Secretary
or the operator of the information system
under seefion 12007. as the case may be. of
the issuance.
(9) IVCMNA4R7O/* OF DISQUALIFICATIONS.-
Within 10 days after disquidiftcation of the
holder of a commercial driver's license from
operating a commercial motor vehicle for
after suspension, revocation, or coneenofion
of such license) for a period of SO days or
more, the State shaU notify—
IA) fhe Secretary or the operator of the information
system under section 12007, as
the case may be, and
IB) the State which issued the license,
of such disqualification, suspension, revocation,
or cancellation.
(9) NOTIFICATION OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.— Wifhin 10 days after o person who operates
a commercial motor vehicle, who has a driver's
license issued by any other Stale, and
who violates a State or local law relating to
motor vehicle traffic control father than a
parking violation) in the State, shall notify
a State official designated by the State
which issued such license of such violation,
within 10 days after the date such person is
found to have committed such violation.
(10) LIMTTATION ON ucENsma.—TTie State
shall not issue a commercial driver's license
to a person during a period in which such
person is disqualified from operating a commercial
motor vehicle or the driver's Kcense
of such person is suspend^ revoked, or cancelled.
(11) RETURN OF OLD LICENSES.—The State
shall not issue a commercial driver's license
to a person who has o commereiol driver's
license issued by any other Stale unless such
person first returns the driver's license
issued by such other Sfofe.
fl2) DOMICILE REQUIREMENT.—The State
shall issue commercial drivers' licenses only
to those persons who operate or will operate
commercial motor vehicles and are domiciled
in the Sfofe; except that the Slate, in
accordance with such regulations as the Secretary
shall issue, may issue a commercial
driver's Hcense to a person who operates or
will operate a commercial motor vehicle and
who is not domiciled in a Stale which does
issue commercial drivers' iicenses.
113) PENALTY APFROVAI The State shall
impose such penalties as the State determines
appropriate and the Secrefary approves
for operating a commercial motor vehicle
while not having a commercial driver's
pliecnednesed,, rwenhoilfec ehda, voirn gca nac edfrfievde, ro'sr license suswhile
being
disgualified from operaling a commercial
motor vehicle.
(14) RECiPROCirr.—The States shall allow
any person—
(A) who has a commercial driver's licensefi)
which is issued by any other State in
accordance with the minimum Federal
standards for the issuance of such ffcenses,
and
Hi) which is not suspended, revoked, or
cancelled; and
IB) who is not disqualified from operafinp
a commercial motor vehicle;
to operate a commercial motor vehicle in
the iSfafe.
115) FIRST OFFENSES.—The State shall disqualify
from operating a commercial motor
vehicle for a period of not less than 1 year
each person—
fA) who is found to have committed a first
violation—
fi) of driving a commercial motor vehicle
while under the influence of alcohol or a controtted substance or
fii) of leaving the scene of an accident involving
a commercial motor vehicle operated
by such person; or
IB) who uses a commercial motor vehicle
in the commission of a felony lother than a
felony described in paragraph 117));
except that if the vehicle beiny operated or used in connection with such violation or
the commission of such felony is transporting
a hosordous niaterioi reouired by the
Secretary to be ptacarded under section 105
of the Hasardous Materials Transportation
Act 149 U.S.C. App. 1804), the State shaU disqualify
such person from operatiny a commercial
motor vehicle for a period of not less
than 3 years.
(16) SECOJVO OFFENSES.—
(A) GENERAL RULE.—Subject to subparagraph
IS), the State shall disqualify from operating
a commercial nwtor vehicle for life
each person—
H) who is found to have committed more
than one violation of driviny a commercial
motor vehicle while under the influence of
alcohol or a controlled substance;
fii) who is found to have commuted more
than one violation of leaving the scene of an
accident involving a commercial motor vehicle
operated by such person;
fiii) who uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of more than one felony
arising out of different criminal episodes; or
fiv)fl) who is found la have committed a
violation described in clause fi) or Hi), and
taffilol)n wdhesoc risib feodu nd to have committed a tno- in the other of such clauses
or uses a commercial motor vehicte in the
commission of a felony.
IB) SPECIAL RULE.—The State, in accordance
with such guidelines (including conditions)
as the Secretary may estabtish by regulation,
may reduce a disqualification far
life in accordance with subparagraph (A) to
a period of not less than 10 years.
117) DRUG OFFEKSES.—The State shall disqualify
from operating a commercial motor
vehicle for life each person who uses a commercial
motor vehicle in the commission of
a felony involving manufacturing, distributing,
or dispensing a controlled substance, or
possession with intent to manufacture, distribute.
or disjiense a controlled substance.
118) SECOND SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATION.—
The State shall disqualify from operating a eommerciat motor vehicle for a period of not
less than 60 days each person who, in a 3-
year period, is found to have committed 2
serious traffic violations involving a commercial
motor vehicle operated by such
person.
(19) THIRD SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATION.—The
State shall disqualify from operating a comOctober
17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE
mercial motor vehicle for a period of not less
than 120 days each person who. tn a 3-year
period, is found to have committed 3 serious
traffic violations involving a coWTiierciai
mofor vehicle o7>erated by such person.
'20> NATIONAI DRIVSR REUISTSR INFORMATION.—
Before issuing a commercial driver's
license to operate a commercial motor vehicle
to any person, the State shall reijuest the
Secreiary for information from the National
Driver Register established pursuant to the
National Drix<er Register Act of 1982 123
V.S.C. 401 note) lafter such Register is determined
by the Secretary to be operational)—
fAl on whether such person has been disgualified
from operating a motor vehicle
'other than a commercial motor vehicle):
IB) on whether such person has had a license
^oUier than a Jicense authorising such
person to operate a commercial motor vehicle)
suspended, revoked, or cancelled for
cause in the 3-year period ending on the
dale of application for such commercial
driver's license: ant<
to on whether such person has been convicted
of any of the offenses specified in seclion
20Sfa)f3) of such Act.
The State shall give full weight and consideration
to such information in deciding
whether to issue a commercial driver's license
to such person.
121) OVT OF SSRVICE REGULATION.'!.—The
state shall adopt and enforce any regulations
issued by the Secretary umier section
1200S.'d)lI).
lb) SATISFACTION OF STATS DISQUALIFICATION
REQUIREMENT.—A State may satisfy the requirements
of subsection la) that the State
disqualify a person who operates a commercial
motor vehicle if the Slate suspends, revokes.
or cancels the driver's license issued
to such person in accordance with the requirements
of such subsection.
ic) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days
after being notified by a Slate of the proposed
issuance of a commercial driver's license
to any person, the Secretary or the operator
of the information system under section
12007. as the case may be. shall notify
such State of whether or not such person Aas
a commercial driver's license issued by any
other State or has been disqualified from operating
a commercial motor vehicle by any
other State or the Secretary.
SFC llSie.r,ILA,\'TPROCHAM.
la) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary may
make a grant to a Slate in a fiscal year if
Che State enters into an agreement leilh the
Secretary to participate in Such fiscal year
tn the commercial driver's license program
established by this title and the information
system required by this title and to comply
wUh the requirements of section 12009.
lb) MINIMUM AMOUNT OF ORANR.-The Secretaiy
shall determine the amount of grants in
a fiscal year to be made under this section
to a State eligible to receive such grants in
the fiscal year: eicept that—
ID such State shall not be granted less
than $100,000 under this section in the fiscal
year: and
12) to the eitent that any States are granted
more than $100,000 per Slate in the fiscal
year under this section, the Secretary shall
ensure that such States are treated equitably.
ic) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—A State
receiving a grant under this section may
only use the funds provided under such
grant for issuing commercial driver's licenses
and complying with the requirements
of section 12009.
Id) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding
any other protiision of law, approval by
the Secretary of a grant to a Stale under this
section shall be deemed to be a contractual
obligation of the United States for payment
of the amount of the grant.
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TO PERIOD OF AvAiLABiLiTY.-Funds made
available to carry out this section shall
remain available for obligation by the State
for the fiscal year for which such funds are
made available. Any of such funds not obligated
before the last day of such period shall
no tonoer be available to such State and
shall be available to the Secretary for carrying
out the purposes of this title. Funds
made available pursuant to this section
shall remain available until expended.
If) FuNDiNo.—There shall be available to
the Secretary to carry out this section
$S,000.000 from funds made available to
carry out section 404 of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act of 1982 for each of
fiscal years 1989. 1990. and 1991.
SEC liSII. wrTHHOIMNi; OF HIOHWA Y FUNDS FOR
STA TE NO.NCOMPLIANCE.
la) FIRST YEAR.—The Secretary shall withhold
S percent of the amount required to be
apportioned to any State under each of sections
104lbilll. 104lb)l2). 104lb)IS). and
104ib)lS) of title 23. United States Code, on
the first day of the fiscal year succeeding the
first fiscal year beginning after Sep£ern6er
30. 1992, throughout which the State does
not substantially comply with any requirement
of section 120091a) of this Act
lb) AFTER THE FIRST YEAR,—The Secretary
shall withhold 10 percent of the amount required
to be apportioned to any State under
each of sections lOHbHl). 104lbll2),
104lb)iSi, and I04(b)i6) of sucft title on the
first day of each fiscal year after the second
fiscal year beginning after September 30.
1992, throughout which the State does not
su&stantin/ty comply with any requirement
of section 120091a) of this Act.
Ic) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY; EFFECT OF COMPLIANCE
AND NONCOMPLIANCE.—
ID FUNDS WITHHELD ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER
SO. 1915.—
IA) PERIOD OF AVAILABIUTY.—Any funds
withheld under this section from apportionment
to any State on or tie/ore September 30,
199S. shall remain available for apportionment
to such State as follows:
HI If such funds would have been apportioned
under section 104lb)l5)(B) of such
title but for this section, such funds shall
remain available until the end of the second
fiscal year following the fiscal year for
which such funds are authorised to be appropriated.
Hi) If such funds would have been apportioned
under section 104lb)ID. 104<b)l2). or
104lb)IS) of sucA title but for this section,
suck funds shall remain available until the
end of the third fiscal year following the
fiscal year for ujAicA sucA funds are authorised
to be appropriated.
IB) FUNDS WITHHELD AFTER SEPTEMBER SO,
1995.—No funds withheld under this subsection
from apportionment to any State after
September 30, tSSS, shall be available for apportionment
to such State.
12) APPORTIONMENT OF WITHHELD FUNDS
AFTER COMPLIANCE.—If. befoTc the lost day of
the period for which funds withheld under
this section from apportionment are to
remain available for apportionment to a
State under paragraph ill, the State substantially
complies with all of the requirements
of section 120091a) of this Act for a
period of 385 days, the Secretary shall on the
day following the last day of such period apportion
to such State the uittAAetd funds remaining
available for apportionment to
such State.
13) PERIOD OF AVARLABIUTY OF SUBSEQUENTLY
APPORTIONED FUND.S.—Any fuuds apportioned
pursuant to paragraph 12) shall
remain available for expenditure until the
end of the third fiscal year succeeding the
fiscal year in which such funds are apportioned.
Sums not obligated at the end of
such period shall lapse or. in the case of
funds apportioned under section 104ib)i5) of
such title, shall lapse and be made available
by the Secretary for projects in accordance
with section llSib) of such title.
14) EFFECT OF NONCOMPLIANCS.—If ot the
end of the period for tcAicA funds withheld
under this section from apporlionment are
available for apportionment to a State
under paragraph ID, the State has not substantially
complied with all of tAe requirements
of section 120091a) of this Act for a
36S-day period, sucA funds shall lapse or. in
the case of funds withheld from apportionment
under section 104lbllS) of such title,
such funds shall lapse and be made available
by the Secretary for projects tn accordance
with section 1181b) of such title.
SEC. nan. PESALTIEE
(a) NOTICE OF VIOLATION.—Paragraph <D of
section S21lbl of title 49, United Slates
Code, is amended by inserting "or section
12002, 12003. 12004. 12005lbl, or l200Sld)l2)
Of the Commercial tlfotor Vehicle Safety Act
of 1986" after "the Motor Carrier Safety Act
Of 1984" and by striking out "section" the
second place it appears and inserting in lieu
thereof "sections".
lb) CIVIL PENALTies.-Paragraph (2) of such
section is amended, by inseriing "IA) IN GENERAL.—"
before "Except as", by inserting
"loiher than subparagraph IB))" before
except for recordkeeping violations", and by
striking out the last two sentences and inserting
in lieu thereof the following:
" I B ) V I O L A T I O N S P E R T A I N I N G T O C D L S .—Any
person who is determined by the Secretary,
after notice and opportunity for a hearing,
to have committed an act which is a violalion
0/section 12092, 12003. 12004. 120051b).
or 1200Sidil2) of the Commercial Motor Vehicle
Safety Act of 19SB shall be liable to the
United States for a civil penalty not to
exceed $2,500 for each offense.
"LO DETERMINATION OF AMOVNT.—The
amount of any civil penalty, and a reasonable
time for abatement of the violation, shall
by written order be determined by the Secretary,
taking into account the nature, circumstances.
extent, and gravity of the violation
committed and. with respect to tAe violator,
the degree of culpability, history of
prior offenses, abitify to pay. effect on ability
to continue to do business, and such other
matters as justice and public safety may require.
In eacA cose, the assessment shall be
calculated to induce further compliance.
ID POSTING OF NOTICE.—Paragraph 13) of
such section is amended by inseriing "or
section 12002, 12003. 12004. Or 120051b) of
the Commercial Afotor Vehicle Safety Act of
1986" after "the Motor Carrier Safety Act of
1984".
Id) OUT OF SERVICE ORDERS.—Paragraph
I5IIA) of sucA section is amended by inserting
"or section 12002. 12003. 12004, or
120051b) of the Commercial Motor Vehicle
Safely Act of 1986" after "the Motor Carrier
Safety Act of 1984" and by striking out "seclion"
the second place it appears and inserting
in lieu thereof "sections".
le) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—Paragraph 16) of
such section is amended by inserting "lA) IN
GENERAL.-" before "Any person" and by
adding at the end tAere<V" the following:
" I B ) V I O L A T I O N S P E R T A I N I N G T O coLs.—Any
person who knowingly and willfully violates—
"li) any provision of section 12002.
120031b). 120031c). 12004. 120051b). or
12008ld)l2) of the Commercial tlfotor VeAicJe
Safety Act of 1986 or a regulation issued
under such section, or
"(ii) with respect to notification of a serious
traffic violation as defined under section
12019 of such Act, any provision of section
120031a) of such Act or a regulation
issued under such section I2003laj.
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shall, upon conviciion, be sut>fect for each
offense to a fine not to exceed $5,000 or imprisonment
for a term not to exceed SO days,
or both.
IfJ CONFOILMING AMBNmfBNT^.—IV Parasrttph
t2J of such section is amended by inserting
"CIVIL PENALTV.—" after "(2)", by indenting
subparagraph lAI, as designated by
subsection fbl of this section, and aligning
such subparagraph with subparagraph <B).
as added by such subsection ibl.
121 Paragraph I6J of such section is
amended by inserting "CHUVI/IAL PENALTICS,—"
after "161" and by indenting subparagraph
tAJ. as designated by subsection
fel of this section, and aligning such subparagraph
with subparagraph IB), as added
by such subsection lei.
igi TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—m Paragraph
16) of such section is further amended by
striking out "for a fine" and inserting in
Lieu thereof "in a fine".
121 Paragraph 1131 of such section is
amended by striking out "section 4" anti inserting
in lieu thereof "section 204".
SEC. mil WX/VB* AirHOklTV.
Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title, after notice and an opportunity
for comment, the Secretary may waive, in
whole or in part, applica tion of any provision
of this title or any regulation issued
under this title with respect to class of persons
or class of commercial motor vehicles if
the Secretary determines thai such waiver is
not contrary to the public interest and does
not diminish the safe operation of commercial
motor vehicles. Any waiver under this
section shall be published in the Federal
Register, together with reasons for such
ioaiver.
Ii£a mil rOMMSaCIAL MUTUH VEHK'LK SAfSrV
CHANTS.
Section 404 of the Surface rrcnsportofion
Assistance Act of 19S2 149 U.S.C. 2304/ is
amended to read as follows:
• 'A UTHOR/ZA 'nONS
"SEC. 404. lalll) To carry out the purposes
of section 402 of this title, there is authorized
to be appropriated out of the Highway
Trust Fund lother than the Mass Transit Account/
$10,000,000 for fiscal year 1984.
$20,000,000 for fiscal year 1985. and
$30,000,000 for fiscal year 1986.
"12) Subject to section 9503fc)IIJ of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986. there shall be
available to the Secretary to incur oblipations
to carry out section 402 of this title,
out of the Highway Trust Fund (other than
the Mass Transit Account). $50,000,000 per
fiscal year for each of fiscal years 1987 and
2988 and $60,000,000 per fiscal year for each
of fiscal years 1989. 1990. and 1991.
"lb) Funds autnoiized to be appropriated,
and funds made available, by this section
shall be used to reimburse States pro rata for
the Federal share of Ihe costs incurred.
"<c) Grants made pursuant to the authority
Of this part shall be for periods not to
exceed one year.
"Id) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, beginning after September 30, 1986,
approval by the Secretary of o pront to a
State under section 402 shall be deemed a
contractual obligation of the United States
for payment of the Federal share of the costs
incurred by such State in development or
implementation or both of programs to enforce
commercial motor vehicle rules, regulations.
standards, and orders.
"lei Funds authorized to be appropriated,
and funds made avaitobie, to carry oat this
section shall remain available for oblipation
by the Secretary for the fiscal year for which
such funds are authorised or made awiitabic,
as the case may be. and the three succeeding
fiscal years.
"If) On October 1 of each fiscal year beginning
after September 30. 1986, the Secretary
Chtober 17. 1986
may deduct, from funds made available for
such fiscal year by subsection ia)i2/. an
amount not to exceed one-half of one percent
of the amount of such funds for administering
section 402 of this title in such
fiscal year.
SEC. nan. rHUCti BRAKE HEtiVLAnONS.
Not late than the 90th day after the date of
the enactment of this title, the Secretary
shall revise the regulations of the Administrator
of the Federal Highway Administration
contained in section 393.42lc) of title
49 of the Code of Federal Regulations to reguire
trucks and truck tractors manufactured
after July 24, 1980, to have brakes operating
on all wheels. The Secretary may
provide for a delayed effective date inot exceeding
1 year) for trucks and truck tractors
manufactured after July 24, 1980, and before
such date of enactment.
SEC. ITOIS. RADAR DEMOSSTR.ATWN PROJECT.
la) PROJECT DESCRIPTION.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the Secretary,
in cooperation with State and tocat
law enforcement officials, shall conduct a
demcnstration project to assess the benefits
of continuous use of unmanned radar epuipment
on highway safety on a section of highway
with a high rate of motor vehicle accidents.
Such project shall be conducted in
northern Kentucky on a hilly section of
Interstate Route 1-75 between Fort Mitchell
and the Brent Spence Bridge over Che Ohio
River during Che 24-month period beginning
on the date of the enactment of this title.
lb) REPORTS,—
U) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later than 18
months after the date of the enactment of
this title, the Secretary shall transmit to
Congress an interim report on the results of
the demonstration project conducted under
sabsection (a), together with any recommendations
on whether or not to extend the duration
of such demonstration project antf
lohether or not to expand the scope ofsu^
project
12) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 60 days
after completion of the demonstration
project conducted under subsection la), the
Secretary shall transmit to Congress a final
report on the results of such project together
with any such recommendations.
SEC. nan. UMTTANON o.v STATUTORY CONSTRVCTION.
Nothing in this title shall be construed to
diminish, limit, or otherwise affect the autlwiTity
of the Secretary to regulate commercial
motor vehicle safety involving motor vehicles
with a gross vehicle weight rating of
less than 26.001 pounds or such lesser gross
vehicle weight rating as determined appropriate
by the Secretary under section
120I9I6)IA) of this Act
SEC. nais. BEr,iLATio.\s.
la) AVTHORJTY To ISSUE—The Secretary
may issue such regulations as may be necessary
to cany out Ibis title.
lb) COMPUANCE WITH TITLE 5.—All regulations
under this title shall be issued in accordance
with section 553 of title S, United
States Code iwithoul regard to sections 556
and 557 of such title).
SEC. Iiaia, DEFt.\ITION&
For purposes of this title-
ID ^teoHOi—The term "alcohol" has the
meaning the term alcoholic beverage has
under section ISSlc) of title 23, United
States Code.
12) DRIVER'S UCENSE—The term "driver's
license" means a license issued by a State to
an individual which authorizes the individual
to operate a motor vehicle on highways.
13) COMMERCE.—The term "commerce"
means—
<A) trade, traffic, and transportation
within the jurisdiction of the United States
between a place in a State and a place outside
of such State Hncluding a ptoce outside
the United Stales); and
(B) trade, fra^c, anii transportation fn
the United Stales loftieh affects any trade,
traffic, and transportation described in subparagraph
tA).
14) COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE.—The
term "commercial driver's license" means a
license issued by a State to an individual
which authorizes the individual to operate a
class of commercial motor vehicle.
15) MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term "motor pehide"
means a vehicle, machine, tractor,
trailer, or semitrailer propelled or rfreion by
mechanical power used and on highways,
except that such term does not include a vehicle,
machine, tractor, trailer, semitrailer
operaled exclusively on a rail
16) COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE,—The term
"commercial motor vehicle" means.a motor
uehfcte used in commerce to transport passengers
or properly—
(A) if the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight
rating of 26.002 or more pounds or such a
lesser gross vehicle weight rating as the Secretary
determines appropriate by regulation
but not less than a gross vehicle weight
rating of 20,001 pounds:
IB) if the vehicle is designed to transport
more than 15 passengers, including the
driver; or
(C) if such vehicle is used in the transportation
of materials found by the Secretary to
be hazardous for the purposes of the Hazardous
Materials Transportation Act
A motor vehicle which is used in the transportation
of hazardous materials and which
has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than
26,001 pounds lor such gross vehicle weight
rating as determined appropriate by the Secretary
under subparagraph IAD shall not be
included as a commercial motor vehicle pursuant
to subparagraph (C) if such hazardous
material is listed as hazardous pursuant
to section 306ia) of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980 <42 U.S.C. 9656ta// and
is not otherwise regulated by the Department
of Transportation or if such hazardous
material is a consumer commodity or limited
guantity hazardous material as defined
under section 171.8 of title 49 of the Code of
Federal Regulations. The Secretary may
waive the application of the preceding sentence
to any motor vehicle or class of motor
vehicles if the Secretary determines that
such aiatpcr is in the interest of safety.
(7) C0NTROIJ.ED SUBSTANCE.—The term
"controlled substance" has the meaning
such term has under section 102 of the Controlled
Substances Act I2l U.S.C. 802).
IS) EMPLOVSE.—The term "employee"
means an operator of a commercial motor
vehicle Hncluding an independent contractor
while in the course of operating a commercial
motor vehicle) who is employed by
an employer.
191 EMPLOYER.—The term "employer"
means any person (including the United
Stoics, a State, or a political subdivision of
o State) who owns or leases a commercial
motor vehicle or cssiyns employees to operate
such a vehicle.
not FELONY.—The term "felony" means an
offense under State or federal law that is
punishable by death or imprisonment for a
term exceeding 1 year.
til) HAZARDOUS MATERIAL.—The term "hazardous
material" has the meaning such term
has under section 103 of the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act
H2) SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATION.—The term
"serious traffic viotation" means—
lA) excessive speeding, as defined by the
Secretary by regulation;
I B / r e c k l e s s d r i v i n g , a s d e f i n e d under
State or local law;
October 17, 198S CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 11275
(d a violation of a State oriocal law relating
to motor vehicle traffic control fothcr
Uian a parking violation^ arising in connection
with a fatal traffic aecUtent; and
<D) any other sim^r violation of a State
or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic
control /other than a parking violation)
which the Secretary determines by regitlation
is serious.
/13> SecRETARv.—The term "Secretary"
means the Secretary of Transportation.
fl4) Stats.—The term "Stale" means a
State of me United States and the District of
Columbia.
(15) Un/tbd STATES.—The term "United
States" means the 50 States and the District
of CoZuntbiii.
TITLE Xm—CVASIDE WROSGFVL USE
HEC. issai. STUD Y ASD RBPOItT.
fa) STimy.—The Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency shall conduct
a study of the manufacturing and distribution
process of cyanide with o view to
determining methods, procedures, or other
actions which might be taken, employed, or
othenoise carried out in connection with
such manufacturing and distribution in
order to safeguard the public from the
wrongful use of cyanide.
fb) Matters To Be lNC3.uDED.—Such study
shall include, among other matters, the following:
/!) a determination of the sources of cyanide,
including the name and location of
each manufacturer thereof/
<2) on evaluation of the means and methods
utilized by the manufacturer and others
in the distribution of cyanide, including the
name and location of each such distributor:
/3> an evaluation of the procedures employed
in connection with the selling, at the
wholesale and retail level, of cyanide, including
a delerminalion as to whether or
not pcrjoTis selling cyanide require the intended
purchaser to identify himself or herself:
(4J a determination as to the extent to
which recordkeeping requirements are imposed
on, or carried oof by, manufacturers
of cyanide with respect to the specificatioru
of each lot of cyanide produced by such
manufacturer:
/SJ a determination as to the feasibility
and desirability of establishing a central
registry of all lot specifications of cyanide
for the purpose of prot'idincr quick access to
investigative and law enforcement agencies:
16! a consideration and rexhew of all aspects
of the matter of interstate versus intrastate
to the extent that it involves the manufacturing,
distribution, or use of cyanide:
<7> a determination as to Che feasibility
and desirability of requiring manufacturers
of cyanide to color all such cyanide with a
distinctive color so that Che consuming
public can more readily identify products
laced with cyanide:
(8) a determination as to the feasibility
artd desirability of requiring limited-access
storage for cyanide at universities, laboratories.
and other institutions that use cyanide
for research or other purposes; and
/9J a determination as to the feasibility
and desirability of issuing regulations to require
any person who sells or otherwise
transfers, at a retail level, any cyanide to
record such sale or transfer, including ttie
identity of the Tserson purchasing or otherwise
receiving such cyanide, the address of
such person, and the intended use of such
cyanide. Such records shall be available for
such use. and retained for such pcnod, as
the aforementioned Administrator shall by
regulation require.
(O Report.—On or before the expiration of
the t80-day period follauAng the date of tfie
enactment of this seotion, the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency
shall report the results of such study to the
Congress, together with his or her recommendations
with respect thereto.
Id) DEFimrioNs.—As used in this section,
the term—
(2) "person" means any individual, corporation,
portnersftip, or other entity: and
12) "cyanide" means sodium cyanide, potassium
cyanide or any other foiic cyanide
compound.
(e) Avthok/zation.—There art authorized
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this section.
TFTtB XIV—SESATB POLICY REGARDIhG
El'NDthG
EEC. imi. STATEMENT/)F POUCY.
/a) The Senate Ands that—
11) there is on urgent critical need for
funds to carry out the programs and activities
authorized by the preceding provisions
of this Act in order to ensure a drug free
America;
12) this Act is the result of a bipartisan
effort to combat our national drug abuse
problem: and
<3! only the exceptional nature of the drug
abuse problem warrants the expenditure of
funds in excess of otherwise applicable
budget limitations.
lb) Therefore, it is the sense of the Senate
that—
12) amounts authorized to carry out the
preceding provisions of this Act stioutd be
provided as new budget authority for fiscal
year 1987 in H.J. Res. 738 {99th Congress, 2d
Session): and
12) such amounts should not be provided
through transfers ftom, or redactions in,
any amount appropriated by such joint res--
olulion for any other program, pro^rt, or
aotivity for such fiscal year.
TITLE XV—SA TtOSAL FOREST SYSTEM DRUG
VOhTROL
SEC tSMI. SHOUT TITLE
This title may be cited as the "National
Forest System Drug Control Act of 2986".
SEC. ism. PURPOSE.
(a) The purpose of Uiis title is to authorize
the Secretary of Agriculture /hereinafter in
this tUle referred to as Die "Secretary") to
take actions necessary, in connection with
the administration and use of the National
Forest System, to prevent the manufacture,
distrtbulion, or dispensing of marijuana
and other controlled substances.
lb) Nothing in this title shall diminish in
any way the law enforcement authority of
the Forest Service.
IcJ As used in this title, the terms "manufacture".
"dispense", and "distribute" shall
have the same meaning given such terms in
section 102 of Che Controlled Substances Act
121 V.S.C. 802).
SEC issei. POWERS
For the purposes of this Hlle, if specifically
designated by the Secretary and specially
frofned, not to exceed 500 ofAcers and employees
of the Forest Service when in the
performance of their duties shall have authority
within the boundaries of the National
Forest System toll)
carry Arearms:
/2) conduct infestiffotions of violations of
and enforce section 401 of ContrQUed Substances
Act 121 V.S.C. 841/ and other criminal
violations relating to marijuana and
other controlled substances that are monufactured.
distributed, or dispensed on iVotional
Forest System lands:
131 make orrests with a warrant or process
for misdemeanor violations, or without a
warrant or process for violations of such
misdemeanors that any such officer or employee
has probable cause to believe are
being committed in his presence or view, or
for a felony with o icarront or without a
warrant if he has probable cause to believe
that the person to be arrested has committed
or is committing such felony:
/4> serve warrants and other process
issued by a court or officer of competent jurisdiction;
I S ) search with or without warrant or
process any person, place, or conuejjanee occording
to Federal law or rule of law: and
/6) seize with or without warrant or process
any evidentiary item occordinp to Federal
law or rule of law.
SEC, ISm. COOPERATION.
For the purposes of this title, in exercising
the authority provided by section 15003—
<1> the Forest Service shall cooperate with
any other Federal law enforcement agency
having primary investigative jvrisdicAon
over the offense commill^ and
12) the Secretary may authorize the Forest
Service to cooperate with the law enforcement
officials of any Federot agency. Sfofe,
or political subdivision in the investigation
of violations of and enforcement of section
tot of the Confrotfed Substances i4cf (21
U.SC. 841). other laws and regulations relating
to marijuana and other controlled substances,
and State drug control laws or ordinances.
within the Imundaries of the National
Forest System.
SEC. liMS. PENALTY.
Section 401 of the Controlled Substances
Act 121 U.S.C. 841) is amended by adding at
the end thereof the following subsection:
"le)il) Any person who assembles, maintains,
places, or causes to be placed a boobytrap
on Fcderof property where a controlled
substance is being manufacCured, distributed,
or dispensed sftott be sentenced to a term
of imprisonment for not more than 10 years
and shall be/i?ied not more lhan tlO.OOO.
"12/ If any person commits Such a violation
after 1 or more prior conriclions for an
offense punishable under this subsection,
such person shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of not more than 20 years
and shall beAned not more than $20,000.
"13/ For the purposes of this subsection,
the term 'boobytrap' means any conceoied or
camouRaged device designed to cause bodily
injury when triggered by any action of any
unsuspecting person mofcinp contoct with
the device. Such term includes guns, ammunition,
or eaptosire devices attached to trip
wires or other triggering mechanisms, sharpened
stoAres. and lines or wires with hooks
attached.".
SBC. tseee. aithorjzationopapphopiuatiu.ns
There is authorized to be appropriated
810.000,000 for each fiscal year to carry out
this title.
SEC ISM7. APPRm'AL OF SECXETXRY OF AGRICULTVRB
AND ATTORNEY GENERAL
The authorities conferred herein shall be
exercised pursuant to an agreement approved
by the Secretary of Agriculture and
the Attorney General
The text of House Concurrent Resolution
415, considered as having been
adopted pursuant to the text of House
Resolution 597. is as follows:
H. CON RES. 415
flesoTred by the House of Representatives
(the Senate concurring/. That, in the enrollment
of the bill (H.R. 5484) to strengthen
Federal efforts to encourage foreign cooperation
In eradicating Illicit drug cro;s and
in halting international drug traffic, to Improve
enforcement of Pederai drug laws and
enhance interdiction of illicit drug shh>-
menls, to provide strong Federal leadership
in establishing effective drug abuse prevenH11276
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD —HOUSE
Lion and education programs, to expand
Federal support for drug abuse treatment
and rehabilitation efforts, and for other
purposes, the Clerk of the House of Representatives
shall make the following modifications:
At the end of title I, insert the following
(and Insert the appropriate item In the organization
table contained in section 2):
Subtitle V—Death Penalty for Certain
Offenses
SKC. 1995. HEATH PENALTY FOR CERTAIN roNTINi:-
INi: ( RI.VINAI. FJ4TEKPIIISE nKCO OFFENSES.
(a) ELEMENTS OF OFFENSE.—Section 408(a)
of the Controlled Substances Act (21 D.S.C.
848(a» is amended—
(l> by striking out "<a> Any" and inserting
"(aXI) Ebccept as otherwise provided In this
section, any" in lieu thereof;
(2) by -striking out except that if" and
inserting ". If" in lieu thereof; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
"(2) If ail individual Intentionally engages in
conduct during the course of a continuing
criminal enterprise and thereby knowingly
cau.ies the death of any other individual,
the Individual so engaging shall be subject
to the death penalty in accordance with this
section,".
(b) PROCEOUBE APPLICABLE WITH RESPECT
TO THE DEATH PENALTY.—Section 408 of the
Controlled Substances Act Is amended by
adding at the end the following:
"HEABING REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO THE
DEATH PENALTY
"(f) A person shall be subjected to the
penalty of death for any offense under this
section only if a hearing is held in accordance
with this section.
"NOTICE BY THE GOVERNMENT IN DEATH
PENALTY CASES
"(g)(1) Whenever the Government intends
to seek the death penalty for an offense
under this section for which one of the sentences
provided is death, the attorney for
the Government, a reasonable time before
trial or acceptance by the court of a plea of
guilty, shall sign and file with the court,
and serve upon the defendant, a notice—
"(A) that the Government in the event of
conviction will seek the sentence of death;
and
"(B) setting forth the aggravating factors
which the Government will seek to prove as
the basis for the death penalty.
"(2) The court may permit the attorney
for the Government to amend this notice
for good cause shown.
"HEARING BEFORE COtTRT OR JURY
"(hKl) When the attorney for the Government
has filed a notice as required under
subsection (f) and the defendant is found
gtillty of or pleads guilty to an offense
under subsection (a){2>. the judge who presided
at the trial or before whom the guilty
plea was entered, or any other judge If the
judge who presided at the trial or before
whom the guilty plea was entered is unavailable,
shall conduct a separate sentencing
hearing to determine the punishment to be
imposed. The hearing shall be conducted-
"(A) before the jury which deter^ned
the defendant's guilt:
"(B) before a jury impaneled for the purpose
of the hearing if—
"(i) the defendant was convicted upon a
plea of guilty:
•Til) the defendant was convicted after a
trial before the court sitting without a Jury;
"(iii) the jury which determined the defendant's
guilt has been discharged for good
cause: or
"(Iv) after initial Imposition of a sentence
under this section, redetermination of the
sentence under this section is necessary; or
"(C) before the court alone, upon the
motion of the defendant and with the approval
of the Government,
"(2) A jury impaneled pursuant to paragraph
(1KB) shall consist of 12 members,
unless, at any time before the conclusion of
the hearing, the parties stipulate with the
approval of the court that it shall consist of
any number less than 12.
"PROOF OF AGGRAVATING AND MITIGATING
FACTORS
"(i) Notwithstanding rule 32(c) of the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure, when a
defendant is found guilty of or pleads guilty
to an offense under subsection (aK2>, no
presentence report shall be prepared. In the
sentencing hearing, information may be presented
as to any matter relevant to the sentence
and shall include matters relating to
any of the aggravating or mitigating factors
set forth in subsections (1) and (m), or any
other mitigating factor. Where Information
is presented relating to any of the aggravating
factors set forth In subsection (m), information
may be presented relating to any
other aggravating factor. Information presented
may include the trial transcript and
exhibits If the hearing is held before a jury
or judge not present during the trial. Any
other information relevant to such mitigating
or aggravating factors may be presented
by either the Government or the defendMt,
regardless of its admissibility under the
rules governing admission of evidence at
criminal trials, except that information may
be excluded If Its probative value is substantially
outweighed by the danger of unfair
prejudice, confusion of the Issues, or misleading
the jury. The Government and the
defendant shall be permitted to rebut any
Information received at the hearing and
shall be given fair opportunity to present
argument as to the adequacy of the information
to establish the existence of any of
the aggravating or mitigating factors, and as
to appropriateness in that case of Irnposing
a sentence of death. The Government shall
open the argument. The defendant shall be
permitted to reply. The Government shall
then be permitted to reply in rebuttal. The
burden of establishing the existence of any
aggravating factor Is on the Government,
and is not satisfied unless established
beyond a reasonable doubt. The burden of
establishing the existence of any mitigating
factor Is on the defendant, and is not satisfied
unless established by a preponderance
of the information.
"RPIDRN OF FINDINGS
"(J) The jury, or if there Is no jury, the
court, shall consider all the information received
during the hearing. It shall return
special findings identifying any mitigating
factors, and any aggravating factors set
forth In subsection (m), found to exist. If
one of the aggravating factors set forth in
subsection (m)(l) and another of the aggravating
factors set forth in subsection (m) is
found to exist, a special finding identifying
any other aggravating factor may be returned.
A finding of any aggravating or
mitigating factor by a Jury shall be made by
unanimous vote. If an aggravating factor set
forth In subsection (mKl) is not found to
exist or an aggravating factor set forth in
subsection (mxu is found to exist but no
other ^gravating factor set forth in subsection
(m) is found to exist, the court shall
impose a sentence, other than death, authorized
by law. If an aggravating factor set
forth in subparagraph (mKl) and one or
more of the other aggravating factors set
forth in subsection (ra> are found to exist,
tlie jury, or if there is no Jury, the court,
shall consider whether the aggravating factors
found to exist sufficiently outweigh any
mitigating factor or factors found to exist.
October 17. 1988
or in the .ibnence of mitigating factors,
whether the aggravating factors are themselves
sufficient to justify a sentence of
death. Based upon this consideration, the
jury by unanimous vote, or if there is no
jury, the court, shall return a finding as to
whether a sentence of death is Justified.
"IMPOSITION OP SENTENCE
"(k) Upon a finding that a sentence of
death Is justified, the court shall sentence
the defendant to death. Otherwise the court
shall impose a sentence, other than death,
authorized by law.
"MITIGATING FACTORS
"(1) In determining whether a sentence of
death Is to be imposed on a defendant, the
following mitigating factors shall be considered
but are not exclusive;
"(1) The defendant was less than 18 years
of age at the time of the crime.
"(2) The defendant's capacity to appreciate
the wrongfulness of the defendant's conduct
or to conform the defendant's conduct
to the requirements of taw was significantly
impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute
a defense to the charge.
"(3) The defendant was under unusual
and substantial duress, although not such
duress as constitutes a defense to the
charge.
"(4) The defendant is punishable as a
principal (as defined In section 2(a) of title
18 of the United States Code) In the offense.
which was committed by another, but
the defendant's partlcipaton was relatively
minor, although not so minor as to constitute
a defense to the charge.
"(5) The defendant could not reasonably
have foreseen that the defendant's conduct
in the course of the commission of the offense
resulting In death for which the defendant
was convicted, would cause, or
would create a grave risk of causing, death
to any person.
"ACCRAVAIING FACTORS
"(m) If the defendant Is found guilty of or
pleads guilty to an offense under subsection
(a)(2>. the following aggravating factors
shall be considered but are not exclusive:
"(1) The defendant—
"(A) Intentionally killed the victim:
"(B) intentionally inflicted serious bodily
injury which resulted in the (leath of the
victim: or
"(C) intentionally engaged in conduct intending
that the victim be killed or that
lethal force be employed against the victim,
which resulted In the death of the victim.
"(21 The defendant has been convicted of
another Federal offense, or a State offense
resulting in the death of a person, for which
a sentence of life imprisonment or a sentence
of death was authorized by statute.
"(3) The defendant has previously been
convicted of two or more State or Federal
offenses punishable by a term of imprUonment
of more Chan one year, committed on
different occasions, involving the Infliction
of, or attempted infliction of, serious bodily
injury upon another person.
"(4) The defendant has previously been
convicted of two or more State or Federal
offenses punishable by a term of Imprisonment
of more Chan one year, committed on
different occasions, Involving the distribution
of a controlled substance.
"(5) In the commission of the offense or In
escaping apprehension for a violation of
subsection (IKI), the defendant knowingly
created a grave risk of death to one or more
persons in addition to the victim of the offense.
"(6) The violation of this chapter in relation
to which the conduct described In subOctober
17, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
section (a)(2) occurred was a vloiation of
section 405.
••(7) The defendant committed the offense
In sm especially heinous, cruel, or depraved
manner.
"(8) The defendant procured the commission
of the offense by payment, or promise
of payment, of anything of pecuniary value.
"(9) The defendant committed the offense
as consideration for the receipt, or in the
expectation of the receipt, of anything of
pecuniary value.
"(10) The defendant committed the offense
against a Judge, a law-enforcement officer,
or an employer of a penal or correctional
institution, while the victim was performing
official duties or because of that
victim's status as a public servant of the
United States, or a State or political subdivision
of the United States. For purposes of
this paragraph the term 'law-enforcement
officer' means a public servant authorized
by law to conduct or engage in the prevention.
investigation, or prosecution of an offense.
"INSTRUCTION TO JURY ON RIGHT OR THE DEFENDANT
TO JUSTICE WITHOUT DISCHIMINA-
'nON
"(n) In any hearing held before a jury
under this section, the court shall instruct
the Jury that in its consideration of whether
the sentence of death is Justified It shall not
consider the race, color, national origin,
creed, or sex of the defendant. The Jury
shall return to the court a certificate signed
by each juror that consideration of race,
color, national origin, creed, or sex of the
deferuJant was not involved in reaching his
or her individual decision.
"SEKTENOrHO IN CAPITAL CASES IN WHICH
DEATH PENALTY IS NOT SOUGHT OR IMPOSED
"(o) If a person is convicted for an offense
under subsection (a)(2i and the court does
not Impose the penally of death, the court
may Imose a sentence of life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole,".
"APPEAL IN CAPITAL CASES
"(p)(l) In any case In which the sentence
of death Is imposed under this section, the
sentence of death shall be subject to review
by the court of appeals upon appeal by the
defendant. Notice of appeal must be filed
within tlie time pre.soribed for appeal of
Judgment in section 2107 of title 28 of the
United States Code. An appeal under this
section may be consolidated with an appeal
of the Judgment of conviction. Such review
shall have priority over all other cases,
"(2) On review of the sentence, the court
of appeals shall consider the record, the evidence
submitted during the trial, the information
submittted during the sentencing
hearing, the procedures employed in the
sentencing hearing, and the special findings
returned under this section.
"(3) The court shall affirm the senten<» if
it determines that—
"(A) the sentence of death was not imposed
under the influence of passion, prejudice,
or any other arbitrary factor; and
"(B) the information supports the special
finding of the existence of every aKravating
factor upon which the sentence was
based, together with the failure to find sufficient
mitigating factors as set forth or allowed
in tills section,
In all other cases the court shall remand
Che case for reconsideration under this section.
The court of appeals shall state In
writing the reasons for its disposition of the
review of the sentence.".
GENERAL LEAVE
Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that all Members
may have 5 legislative days in which to
revise and extend their remarks
during the debate on Houe Resolution
597, the resolution agreed to earlier
today.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Florida?
There was no objection.
AUTHORIZING MEMORIAL TO
HONOR COURAGEOUS SLAVES
AND FREE BLACK PERSONS OF
PAST HISTORY
Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, 1 ask
unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's table the House Joint resolution
(H.J. Res. 142) authorizing establishment
of a memorial to honor the
estimated 5,000 courageous slaves and
free black persons who served as soldiers
and sailors or provided civilian
assistance during the American Revolution
and to honor the countless
black men, women, and children who
ran away from slavery or filed petitions
with courts and legislatures seeking
their freedom with Senate amendments
thereto, and concur in the
Senate amendments.
The Clerk read the Senate amendments.
as follows:
Strike out all after the resoving clause and
insert:
AUTHORIZATION OP MEMORIAL
SECTION 1. The Black Revolutionary 'War
Patriots Foundation is authorized to establish
a memorial on Federal land in the Distrl(
rt of Columbia and its environs to honor
the estimated five thousand courageous
slaves and free black persons who served as
soldiers and saflors or provided civilian assistance
during the American Revolution
and to honor the countless black men.
women, and children who ran away from
slavery or filed petitions with courts and
legislatures seeking their freedom. Such memorial
shall be established in accordance
with the provisions of K.R. 4378. as approved
by the House of Representatives on
September 29.1988.
FUNDING
SEC. 2. The Black Revolutionary War Patriots
Foundation shall establish the memorial
with non-Federal funds.
Amend the title so as to read: "Joint
resolution to authorize the erection of
a memorial on Federal land in the District
of Columbia and its environs to
honor the estimated 5,000 courageous
slaves and free black persons who
served as soldiers and sailors or provided
civilian assistance during the American
Revolution and to honor the
countless black men. women, and children
who ran away from slavery or
fUed petitions with courts and legislatures
seeking their freedom."
Ms. OAKAR (during the reading).
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate amendment be considered
as read and printed in the
RECORD.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the Initial request
of the gentlewoman from Ohio?
Mr. FRENZEL. Reserving the right
to object. Mr. Speaker. I yield to the
distinguished gentlewoman from Ohio
[Ms. DAKAR] to explain the Joint resolution.
Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, House
Joint Resolution 142 originally passed
unanimously (408-0) In the House on
November 8, 1985. On October 17,
1988, House Joint Resolution 142,
passed in the other body, as amended.
Mr. ^eaker, as early as 1652, blacks
were fighting as members of the militia
in colonial America; thus, beginning
their history of achievement and
heroism. Yet history books in American
schools have for the most part
omitted the contributions of black soldiers.
This memorial to these black patriots
is but a small tribute to their
bravery and valor.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank
my colleagues, Congresswoman NANCT
JOHNSON and Congressman CSIARLIE
RAITGEL, for introducing this important
legislation. I would also like to thank
my distinguished colleague from Tennessee,
Senator ALBERT GORE, who introduced
the Senate version of the
bill. Senate Joint Resolution 143.
Mr. Speaker, the reason we are
taking this up again is we want a clear
bill, we do not want It attached to any
continuing resolution, and so forth.
So. Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of
this legislation, as amended by the
other body.
Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, further
reserving the right to object, 1 yield to
the distinguished gentlewoman from
Connecticut TMrs. JOHNSON), who Is
the original chief and effective author
of this resolution.
Mrs. JOHNSON. I thank the gentleman
for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, 1 rise in strong support
of this resolution. I want to thank the
distinguished gentlewoman from Ohio,
Representative OAKAR, and the distinguished
gentleman from Minnesota,
Mr. FRENZEL, for their perseverance In
bringing this resolution to us. in this
clean and independent form. Their
help and assistance throughout the
months that we have worked to bring
this to the House floor have been admirable
and invaluable, as has the assistance
of Congressman RANGEL and
our colleague. Senator GORE, in the
other body.
1 do want to say that today's action
has the effect of bringing to completion
a vision on the part of an individual
citizen In our democracy. It thereby
affirms the fundamental and most
important aspect of democracy, the
representative relationship between visionary
citizen and elected representative.
Ours is truly government by the
people and for the people.
So 1 want to acknowledge the hard
work of Maurice Barboza. one of my
H11278 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 17,1986
constituents, who originally envisioned
this monument. Maurice understands
from his own experience the price that
we are paying as a Nation for our lack
of understanding that our freedom
originated through the valor, the courage,
the side-by-side commitment of
black Americans and white Americans.
Together they fought in the Revolutionary
War to found a free nation, a
nation in which each is equal to the
other and in which there is equal justice
and equal opportunity for all.
This monument will recognize the context
of black Americans and so our
multiracial founding.
Mr, Speaker. I thank the chairman
and I thank the committee for its fine
leadership.
Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, further
reserving the right to object. I yield to
the distinguished author of the bill,
the gentleman from New York [Mr.
RANGEL].
Mr, RANGEL. I thank the gentleman
for yielding and thank the chairwoman
and also Mrs. JOHNSON and all
who have made this dream come true.
Most of us in this great Nation of
ours are restricted as to what we know
based on what has been in certain history
books and excluded from others.
But black Americans have always
taken pride that there has not been a
battle that they have not participated
in, there has not been a war that they
have not volunteered for. and certainly
when we talk about the struggle
that made this Nation great, unfortunately
history has not recorded it. In
my opinion, what this great Congress
is doing is trying to correct that wrong
by having a monument so that all of
our children, black or white. Jew or
gentile, will recognize that it took
people from all parts of the world to
come here to make this Nation free,
great, and what is is today.
Mr, FRENZEL. Further reserving
the right to object, I yield to the distinguished
gentleman from Missouri.
Mr. SKELTON. I thank the gentleman
for yielding.
Mr. Speaker. I wholeheartedly support
this effort. I support this foundation
and the memorial to which you
are referring today. It is not just the
black American in the Revolutionary
War that this will reflect upon.
People, regardless of race, creed or
color down through the years have
made great contributions to our military.
Being on the Committee on Armed
Services today and seeing that of our
Nation in the various military posts
that I do visit from time to time reflects
the same patriotic fervor that
will be recognized here in this memorial.
I compliment the authors on this
legislation.
Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker. I withdraw
my reservation of objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.
KILDEE). Is there objection to the request
of the gentlewoman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
A motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
GENERAL LEAVE
Ms. DAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that all Members
may have 5 legislative days in which to
revise and extend their remarks on the
legislation just adopted.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
AUTHORIZING ESTABLISHMENT
OF MEMORIAL TO HONOR
WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED IN
OR WITH THE ARMED FORCES
Ms. DAKAR. Mr. Speaker. I ask
unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's table the joint resolution
(H.J. Res. 36) authorizing establishing
of a memorial to honor women who
have served in or with the Armed
Forces of the United States, with
Senate amendments thereto, and
concur In the Senate amendments.
The Clerk read the title of the joint
resolution.
The Clerk read the Senate amendments
as follows:
Strike out all after the resolving clause
and insert:
AUTHORIZATION OP MEUORIAL
SECTION 1. The Women in Military Service
for America Memorial Foundation Is authorized
to establish a memorial on Federal
land in the District of Columbia and its environs
to honor women who have served in
the Armed Forces of the United States.
Such memorial shall be established in accordance
with the provisions of HR, 4378,
as approved by the House of Representatives
on September 29. 1986.
FUNDING
SEC, 2. The Women in Military Service for
America Memorial Foundation shall establish
the memorial with non-Federal funds,
Amend the title so as to read: "Joint resolution
to authorize the establishment of a
memorial on Federal land in the District of
Columbia and its environs to honor women
who have served in the Armed Forces of the
United States,",
Ms. DAKAR (during the reading).
Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate amendments, be considered
as read and printed in the
RECORD.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Ohio?
Mr. FRENZEL. Reserving the right
to object. I yield to the gentlewoman
from Ohio [Ms. DAKAR], chairwoman
of the Task Force on Libraries and
Memorials of the Committee on House
Administration for an explanation.
Ms. DAKAR. I thank the gentleman
for yielding.
Mr, Speaker, this bill originally
passed the House unanimously about a
year ago as well. Just yesterday it finally
passed the other body as a clean
bill.
Mr. Speaker, since the American
Revolution women have served with
distinction and honor. The official history
of women in the U.S. Armed
Forces began with the formation of
the Army Nurse Corps in 1901. Thousands
of women have served in the
armed services in World War II, for
example about 340,000 served. We
have had many women who were prisoners
of war as well. Yet, when you
look at the memorials in this town and
throughout the country, very seldom
if ever do you see a woman portrayed
as having served her country in the
Armed Forces.
We could go into the problems
women have had In terms of discrimination.
and so on. at times in the military.
although I must say much of
that has been improved. But the fact
is this is a way of showing that women
have meant an awful lot to presen'e
the freedom of this country by their
great service to this country.
Currently there are approximately
1.4 mUlion women veterans, and these
women have fulfUled the same wonderful
responsibilities with the same
competence displayed by military men.
So this resolution will specifically
provide a memorial to honor all
women who have served In the military.
I want to thank my distinguished
colleague on the Senate side, Senator
MURKOWSKI, for introducting the companion
bill in the other body. I really
want to thank all the veterans organizations.
It was very, very interesting to
me and really a lovely tribute to the
women that all the veterans organizations.
the major veterans organizations
came and not only testified but
endorsed this bill. They realized the
Importance that women have always
played in the military and will continue
to play.
So. Mr. Speaker. I do urge adoption
of this resolution as amended by the
other body.
I want to again thank my friend and
colleague from Minnesota, the gentleman
from Minnesota [Mr. FTIENZELI
the minority leader of our committee
for his tenacity in bringing this bill to
this point as well.
I truly appreciate the gentleman's
cooperation and the cooperation of
our staffs as well.
Mr. FRENZEL. Further reserving
the right to object, Mr. Speaker. I
concur in the statement of the distinguished
gentlewoman from Ohio, but I
would like to remind all Members that
she was more modest than she should
have been, for she failed to note that
in addition to bringing the other memorials
to the floor, she is the chief
sponsor of this particular resolution.
House Joint Resolution 36. The reason
that it is before us is due largely to
her vigor and effectiveness.
Mr. Speaker. I withdraw my reservation
of objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
4
Law/Judiciary
Authorizes $1.7 Billion in Fiscal 1987:
Massive Anti-Drug Measure
Ready for Reagan's Signature
President Reagan on Oct. 27 is
scheduled lo sign iniu law a massive
anti-drug measure cleared by Congress
on Oct. 17.
The bill (HR 5484) increases penalties
lor drug offenses and authorizes
.$1.7 billion in new funds in fiscal 1987
for drtig enforcement, eradication and
interdiction efforts, and for education,
treatment and rehabilitation programs.
(Weekly Report p. 2594)
It also became a vehicle for various
unrelated riders, ranging from a
measure setting nationwide licensing
standards for commercial bus and
truck drivers to provisions strengthening
infant formula regulations.
With the drug problem near the
top of voter concerns in most opinion
polls, members of both houses had
vowed not to let the measure "die on
their doorstep," as Sen. Lawton
Chiles, D-Fla., put it.
But while House members and
senators agreed that they wanted to
get tough on drugs, each chamber
seemed determined to see the final
version reflect its own ideas of how lo
achieve that goal. The drug bill very
nearly derailed in the days before the
99th Congress adjourned as the chambers
batted i* •'nd forth.
Fighting to Act Last
During the week of Oct. 13, most
attention focused on a potential stalemate
over a provision of the bill that
authorized capital punishment for
drug-related murders. The House
passed three versions of HR 5484 containing
the provision; the Senate
passed three versions without it.
Almost unnoticed was the fact
that the chambers remained stubbornly
divided over other language
differences that Sen. Jn.seph R. Biden
Jr., D-Del., one of the managers of the
measure in the Senate, described as
"nit-picking."
£ach time the bill was sent across
-^By Julie Rooner •
the Capitol, members speculated thai
the "other body" would stand fast on
the death penalty and relent on other
issues. But each time, the receiving
chamber reinserted its original language
on issues ranging from money
laundering to the distribution of funds
for drug treatment and rehabilitation.
"If we could just get all the principals
together in one room, we could
work this whole thing out in 45 minutes."
Biden said Oct. 15, after the
Senate sent its second version of the
measure back to the House.
But the House never officially appointed
conferees, so a forma! conference
could not be convened. House
staffers insisted that there was no
time for a conference, but Senate
staffers speculated that House leaders
wanted to ensure that they would have
the last word. "If it died in conference,
their fingerprints would still be on it,"
one Senate aide noted.
Because the House acts first on
an adjournment resolution, he said, it
could always kick the drug bill back to
the Senate, adjourn and leave the Senate
a choice between accepting the
House version or killing the drug bill.
The impasse was finally broken
late Oct. 16. when Biden, Chiles and
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., successfully
put together an informal conference
session in the House Speaker's
dining room. It took more than three
hours and the efforts of nine senators
and at least two dozen House members.
but by late that night a compromise
was worked out.
The Final Compromise
The final legislation approved by
both chambers the following day authorizes
nearly $.500 million in new
funds for fiscal 1987 for drug interdiction,
$275 million for drug enforcement,
$230 million for grants for state
and.lpcal .law enforcement, $241_mii-,
lion for rehabilitation and tr^tment,
- and $200 million for drug abuse edtication
and prevention programs.
The compromise includes the
Senate's language on money laundering
and the House language on the
relaxation of the Mansfield amendment,
which prohibits U.S. drug
agents from being present during arre.
sts in foreign countries,
HR 5484 has been touted by
many members as an attack on major
drug pushers, but it contains a number
of provisions aimed at small-scale
drug users. One, for example, would
impose a mandatory minimum $1,000
fine for simple possession of a small
amount of illegal drugs.
A number of sponsors said they
feel the measure's real impact will
come not from increased penalties or
beefed-up enforcement, but from education
and treatment efforts.
"Enforcement is just a holding action,"
said Chiles. "Where the gold is
to be mined is from doing something
to the demand."
Echoed Biden, "You cannot win
the war on drugs until you change the
demand side of the equation."
Biden said he was satisfied that
the bill "will allow us to win a lot more
significant battles, but it will not allow
us to end the war." He also worried
aloud that the bill has been oversold
by some of his colleagues.
"The biggest problem we have
with the public and the reason why up
until recently the public didn't think
we cQuld do anything about (the drug
problem] is because we overpromise
and overpromise about the effect of
what we do," he said.
For others, the drug bill Is more
significant for what it does not contain
than what it does.
Dropped along the way. in addition
to the death penally provision,
were controversial proposals that
would have weakened the exclusionaryrule
that prohibits illegally obtained
evidence from being used in court, ordered
the military lo intercept and arrest
suspected drug smugglers, and required
drug testing for federal
employees in sensitive positions.
The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), in particular, had
fought those provisions in a no-holdsbarred
lobbying effort during the
w^eks... bptwpen .passage of the firy
House version Sept. 9 and final clearing
of the measure. ^
Oct. 25, 1986—PAGE 2699
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Major Provisions of Omnibus Anti-Drug Measure
On Oct. 17. Congress cleared omnibus anti-drug legislation
(HR 5484) authorizing $1.7 billion in new fiscal 1987 funding for
drug interdiction, eradication, enforcement, education, treatment
and rehabilitation efforts. The measure also increased
penalties for most federal drug crimes, created new penalties for
money laundering and the manufacture and distribution of socalled
"designer drugs," and authorized S230 million annually for
three years for grants to the states for drug enforcement.
HR 5484 also contained the texts of several unrelated measures,
including proposals to establish nationwide licensing standards
for commercial bus and truck drivers, and to make the
homeless eligible for federal welfare benefits.
As cleared for the president, HR 5484:
Increased Penalties
• Stiffened penalties under the Controlled Substances Act (PL
91-513) for the manufacture, distribution or possession with
intent to manufacture or distribute controlled substances.
• Established fines of up to S4 million for an individual and $10
million for an organization, and a minimum mandatory sentence
of at least 10 years in prison, for those convicted of major
drug trafficking offenses. Set a mandatory minimum prison
term of 20 years if death or serious bodily injury results. These
were offenses involving at least 5 kilograms of cocaine or 1
kilogram of heroin, among other substances.
• For second convictions of major offenses, established fines of
up to $8 million for an individual and $20 million for an
organization, and mandatory minimum sentences of 20 years,
with mandatory life imprisonment if death or bodily injury
results.
• Established fines of up to $2 million for individuals and $5
million for organizations, and mandatory minimum sentences
of five years, for those convicted of certain serious drug offenses,
with maximum prison terms rising to 40 years. These were
offenses involving 100 grams of heroin; 500 grams of cocaine, or
5 grams of cocaine freebase, known as "crack," among other
substances.
• For second convictions of serious offenses, established fines of
up to $4 million for individuals and $10 million for organiza-
•lions, and mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years rising to
life imprisonment, in cases in which death or serious bodily
injury results.
• Increased penalties for most other violations of the Contrulled
Substances Act, and set a mandatory minimum sentence of 20
years in prison for offenses resulting in death or serious injury.
• Prohibited probation or suspension of sentence for anyone
given a mandatory minimum prison sentence for narcotics
offenses-
• Authorized courts, upon motion of the prosecution, to impose
less than a minimum mandatory sentence if a defendant
provides "substantial assistance" in the investigation or prosecution
of another person for a narcotics offense.
• Similarly stiffened penalties under the Controlled Substance
Import and Export Act (PL 91-513), which bars the unlawful
importing of controlled substances into the United States, or
possession of such substances on the high seas with intent to
import them unlawfully.
• Set minimum mandatory fines for simple unlawful possession
of a controlled substance at $1,000 for a first offense and
$2,500 for a second offense; and set a minimum fine of $5,000
and a minimum sentence of at least 90 days in prison for all
offenses after the second.
• Subjected owners or operators of so-called "crack houses" or
other dwellings used for the unlawful manufacture, storage,
distribution or use of illegal drugs to penalties of up to 20 years
In prison and fines of up to $500,000.
• Prohibited the use of minors in drug dealing and set a
minimum sentence of one year in prison for anyone aged 18
or older convicted of using a minor under age 18 in the
commission of a drug offense. Such persons could be sentenced
to twice the maximum prison term or fine normally
imposed for the offense In question, with penalties to be
tripled for a second conviction of using a minor to carry out a
drug offense.
• Provided for sentences of up to five years and fines of up to
$50,000 for anyone convicted of selling drugs to a minor or
using a minor aged 14 or less In commission of a drug offense.
• Prohibited probation or suspension of sentence for anyone
convicted of using minors in drug trafficking or of selling
drugs to minors.
• Prohibited the manufacture, as well as distribution, of controlled
substances within 1,000 feet of a school, and extended
the ban to colleges as well as elementary and secondary schools.
• Authorized courts to confiscate substitute assets of comparable
value if a defendant has placed illegally obtained assets out
of the court's reach.
• Provided that "controlled substance analogues" — drugs that
are not chemically identical to controlled substances but
produce similar reactions — be treated as controlled substances
for purposes of law enforcement. These substances are better
known as "designer drugs."
• Increased from $100,000 to $2 million the fine for an individual
convicted of a first offense of engaging In "a continuing
criminal enterprise." and increased from $200,000 to $4 million
the tine for a second or subsequent offense.
• Required mandatory life sentences lor "principal administrators,
organizers or leaders" of continuing criminal enterprises,
defined as those receiving $10 million in gross receipts
during a 12-month period.
• Added serious drug offenses to those triggering mandatory
minimum sentences under the "armed career criminal" provisions
of the 1984 omnibus anti-crime law (PL 98-473). <1984
Almanac p. 221!
• Prohibited the interstate sale, transportation. Import, export
or use of the U.S. Postal Service for drug paraphernalia, and
provided penalties for violators of up to three years in prison and
up to $100,000 in fines.
• Defined drug paraphernalia to include water pipes, bongs,
roach clips, spoons with level capacities of one-tenth cubic
centimeter or less and cocaine freebase kits.
Money Laundering
• Prohibited completed or attempted financial transactions involving
the proceeds of unlawful activity if the intent was to
promote such activity, conceal the source of the funds or to
evade reporting requirements, and set penalties up to
$500,000 or twice the amount of the transaction involved and
prison sentences up to 20 years for violations.
• Made it a crime, subject to the same penalties above, to
transport or attempt to transport funds or a monetary instrument
knowingly obtained through the commission of a crime or
intended for use in a crime.
• Made it a crime to structure financial transactions in order to
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evade federal reporiirrg requirements for cash transactions
and authorized civil penalties up to the amount of the transaction.
• Authorized civil penalties for money laundering offenses of
$10,000 or the value of property or funds involved in the
transaction.
• Authorized seizure and forfeiture of cash or other property
derived from criminal activity.
• Increased the authority of the secretary of the Treasury to
investigate cases of suspected money laundering.
• Exempted from liability under all federal laws a financial
institution or its employees who disclose information on
money laundering transactions to law enforcement officials.
• Increased record-keeping requirements for financial institutions
and authorized the imposition of civil fines for failure to
comply with such requirements.
• Ordered federal bank regulatory agencies to prescribe regulations
requiring insured banks to establish and maintain procedures
for monitoring compliance with the money laundering law
and reporting requirements.
• Ordered the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to propose
to central banks of other countries an information exchange
system to combat the international flow of money
from drug enterprises.
New Funds for Federal Drug Enforcement
• Authorized an additional $60 million for fiscal 1987 for the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
• Authorized an additional $124.5 million for the federal prison
system for fiscal 1907 — $96.5 million for new prison construction
and $20 million for salaries and expenses.
• Authorized an additional $10 million for federal public defenders
for fiscal 1987.
• Authorized an additional $7.5 million in fiscal 1987 for fees
and expenses for federal jurors and commissioners.
• Authorized $5 million for the lustice Department's Office of
justice Assistance for a pilot program on prison capacity.
• Authorized an additional $31 million for U.S. attorneys in fiscal
1987.
• Authorized $17 million for fiscal 1987 lor the U.S. Marshals
Service.
• Authorized $5 million for fiscal 1987 to support the cost of
federal prisoners incarcerated in non-federal prisons.
• Authorized $5 million for the U.S. Secret Service and $2
million for the FBI for the purchase of "secure" voice radios to
prevent eavesdropping.
• Authorized $230 million per year for each of fiscal 1987, 1988
and 1989 for grants to slates for state and local drug enforcement
efforts.
• Required states to match federal grants on a 25-75 basis.
• Provided thai 80 percent of the funds be distributed to states
applying for grants on the basis of population (with each
participating state guaranteed at least $500,000), and the remaining
20 percent be distributed at the discretion of the director
of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. States need not match funds
received from the discretionary fund.
Illegal Aliens, New Studies, Reward
• Required the Department of Defense to conduct a study of
the feasibility of converting surplus federal buildings for use as
prisons.
• Required law enforcement officials fo notify the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS) when they arrest on drug
charges any individual suspected of being in the United States
illegally.
• Directed the establishment of a pilot program to establish or
improve the computer capabilities of the local INS offices and
of local law enforcement agencies to respond to Inquiries
concerning aliens who have been arrested or convicted or are
under investigation on drug-related charges.
• Required the attorney general to conduct a study of the need
for legislation or regulation to prevent the diversion of
legitimate chemicals for use in the manufacture of illegal drugs
• Established a White House Conference for a Drug Free
America, whose purpose is to review and develop recommendations
concerning the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
at ail levels of government, the impact of drug abuse on
the nation's educational system {including the relationship between
drug abuse by student-athletes and college athletic
policies), and the impact of current laws on efforts to control
international and domestic trafficking of illicit drugs.
• Required the conference to prepare and transmit to the
president within six months a final report containing findings
and recommendations, and authorized $2 million for fiscal 1968
for the conference.
• Authorized the attorney general to make payments of up to
$100,000 to any individual who provides original information
leading to the arrest and conviction of a person who kills or
kidnaps a federal drug law enforcement agent.
Freedom of Information Act
• Provided limited exemptions from the Freedom of Informa-
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tion Act (PI 69-487) for records thai "could reasortably be
expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, would
deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or impartial adjudication,
could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity ot a
confidential source, or could reasonably be expected to endanger
the life or physical safely of any individual.
• Provided for fee waivers or fee reductions when disclosure of
the information at issue "is in the public interest because it is
likely to contribute significantly to public understanding ol tlie
operations or activities of the government and is not primarily
in the commercial interest of the requester."
Driving Under influence
• Imposed penalties of up to five years in prison and up to
$10,060 in fines for anyone who operates or directs the
operation of a common carrier — including a rail carrier, bus,
ship or airplane — while under the influence of alcohol or
drugs.
• Provided that a person shall be conclusively presumed to be
under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol evel of
0 10 and under the influence of drugs if the quantity of the drug
in the individual's system "would be sufficient to impair the
perception, mental processes or motor functions of the average
individual."
International Assistance
• Authorized an additional $62.9 million for fiscal 1987 for
international narcotics control assistance.
• Specified that $45 million of that amount be made available
only after the president presents a detailed plan as to how he
would promote regional cooperation on narcotics control matters;
that not less than $10 million be available to provide
helicopters or other aircraft to Latin American countries already
receiving U.S. narcotics control aid for fiscal 1987.
• Stipulated that title to any aircraft made available to a foreign
country for drug control, eradication or interdiction be retained
by the U.S. government, and required the secretary of
slate to maintain detailed records of the use of aircraft made
available to other countries.
• Earmarked $2 million in foreign assistance funds for education
and iraining in the operation and maintenance of aircraft used
in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts.
• Required the withholding from major illicit drug-producing
or drug-transit countries of half the U.S. assistance funds
otherwise allocated unless the president certifies that the country
has cooperated with the United Slates or has taken
adequate steps of its own to stop the production or transport of
illegal drugs. The president may also allocate ail ol the funds if
he certifies that the "vital national interests" of the United Stales
require such assistance. Congress may disapprove such presidential
certification by passage of a joint resolution within 30
days of the certification's receipt.
• Required the president to deny preferential tariff treatment
to major drug-producing or drug-transit nations unless the
president certifies to Congress that the country has cooperated
fully with the United Stales or has taken adequate steps on its
own to disrupt drug productiop or traffic.
• Prohibited the president from allocating quotas lor the sale of
sugar in the United Stales to any country whose government
is involved in the trade of illicit narcotics or is failing to
cooperate with the United States in narcotics enforcement.
• Beginning March 1, 1987. directed the secretary of the
Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the multilateral
development banks to vole against any loans to major
illicii-drug-producing or drug-transit nations.
• Required the secretary of state to use at least $1 million in
foreign aid funds for fiscal 1987 to finance research, development.
and testing of safe and effective herbicides for use in the
aerial eradication of coca, from which cocaine is derived.
• Required the comptroller general to report to Congress by
March 1. 1988, the results of an investigation to determine the
effectiveness of foreign assistance relating to international narcotics
control.
• Amended the so-called Mansfield amendment, which prohibits
U.S. law enforcement agents from being present at narcotics
arrests outside the United Slates, to permit them to be
present when arrests are being made if they are assisting
foreign officers. Also permitted U.S. officers to take direct
action to protect life or safety" if circumstances "pose an
immediate threat to U.S. officers or employees, officers or
employees of a foreign government, or members of the
public."
• Provided'that U.S. officers may not be present during interrogation
of U.S. citizens arrested on narcotics charges m a
foreign country without that person's written ccns'inl
• Required the president to establish expeditiously a comprehensive
information system so that known foreign drug traffickers
may be denied visas to enter the United States. Such a
system was required to be set up under the fiscal 1986-87
State Department authorization act (PL 99-93). (7985 A/manac p.
104)
• Applauded Bolivia's 1986 cooperative drug interdiction effort
with the United States and authorized half the foreign assislance
appropriaied for Bolivia to be allocated as soon as the
president certifies to Congress that Bolivia has n^et certain
targets with respect to disrupting its illicit coca industry. The
remainder was to be allocated upon certification by the
president that Bolivia has either met its 1986 eradication targets
or has entered into a new agreement with the United Stales
for achieving numerical eradication targets in 1987.
• Directed the president to send Congress, withirt six months
after enactment, a list of major illicil-drug-producing or drugtransit
countries that have failed to cooperate in drug interdiction
efforts, or in which U.S. drug agents have suffered
violence by or with the complicity of local authorities.
• Directed the president to collect information on the links
between narcotics traffickers and acts of terrorism abroad,
and to develop an effective and coordinated means of responding
to the threat those links pose.
• Permitted the secretary of state to use existing funds to assist
Colombia or other Latin American countries in protecting
judicial or other officials who may be targets of "narco-ierrotist'
attars.
• Expressed the sense of Congress that a $500,000 reward
should be established for information leading to the arrcsl or
conviction of jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquoz, a Nicaraguan indicted in
1984 in Miami for drug smuggling.
• Directed the secretary o( slate to increase efforts to negotiate
with foreign countries procedures to faciiiiate U.S. Coast
Guard interdiction of vessels of foreign registry suspected ol
carrying illegal drugs.
• Required the president to take "appropriate actions" against
countries that refuse to negotiate such procedures, including
denying access to U.S. ports of vessels registered in those
nations.
• Directed the president to study narcotics trafficking in Africa
and to determine whether to provide increased narcotics
control training for African nations.
• Directed the secretary of stale to instruct the U.S. executive
directors of the multilateral development hanks to propose
increases in the amount of lending for drug eradication programs
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in major illitit-drug-producing countries, and for crop substitution
programs that provide economic alternatives for die
cultivation or production of drugs.
• Declared drugs a national security problem and directed the
president to explore the possibility of engaging the North
Atlantic Treaty Organiaation (NATO) and other security-oriented
organizations in cooperative anti-drug programs.
• Declared congressional support for United Nations efforts
related to narcotics control and called on the president to
ensure U.S. participation in a planned 1987 U.N. conference on
drug abuse and illicit trafficking.
• Urged the president to direct the secretary of state to enter
into negotiations to establish a Mexico-United States Intergovernmental
Commission on Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug
Abuse and Control.
• Expressed the sense of Congress that unless Mexico makes
"substantial progress" toward the resolution of numerous
drug-related issues discussed during an August 1986 meeting
between President Reagan and Mexican President Miguel de
la Madrid, Reagan should consider taking actions against that
nation. Those actions could include imposing a mandatory
travel advisory for all of Mexico, denying favorable tariff treatment
for Mexican products, and denying Mexico favorable
U.S. voles in multilateral development banks.
• Required that $1 million in foreign aid funds for Mexico be
withheld until its government prosecutes those responsible
for the 1985 murders of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar
and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. Before those funds may
be released, Mexico must also have brought to trial and effectively
prosecuted those responsible for tbe 1986 detention
and torture of DEA agent Victor Cortez Jr.
Interdiction Activities
• Authorized $138 million in fiscal 1987 for the Navy to refurbish
for drug interdiction purposes four E-2C Hawkeye surveillance
aircraft or better-suited craft that the secretary of the
Navy designates, and to purchase four replacement aircraft;
$99.5 million for the purchase of radar aerostat surveillance
balloons; and $40 million for the purchase of eight Blackhawk
helicopters-
• Directed that two of the refurbished aircraft be loaned to the
U.S. Customs Service and the other two to the U.S. Coast
Guard, the two agencies with primary drug interdiction jurisdiction;
and that the balloons and helicopters be available for
loan to agencies as determined by the National Drug Enforcement
Policy Board.
• Authorized transfer of $15 million appropriated for the Navy
in fiscal 1987 to pay for the placement of Coast Guard
personnel trained in law enforcement on naval vessels to assist
with drug interdiction.
• Increased the Coast Guard's active duty military strength by
500 and mandated that the extra personnel be assigned to
naval vessels.
• Authorized $45 million for the Department of Defense in
fiscal 1987 for the installation of 360-degree radar systems on
Coast Guard long-range surveillance aircraft.
• In addition to any other amounts, authorized for the Coast
Guard an additional $126 million for fiscal 1987, $39 million of
which is to be used to increase the Coast Guard's active duty
strength for fiscal 1987 to 39,220.
• Expanded provisions allowing Defense Department personnel
to assist in the operation or maintenance of equipment being
used by U.S. drug enforcement agents by allowing such equipment
to be used as a base of operations outside the United
Sutes in£jnergency.Mtuations and to.be used to transport Uw.
enforcement officials in connection with such operations.
• Permitted such equipment to be used to intercept vessels and
aircraft outside U.S. territory, and in U.S. territory in cases
involving a pursuit that began outside the borders, but only if the
secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and the attorney
general jointly determine that an emergency circumstance exists
and that law enforcement would be "seriously impaired" if
such use of equipment were not permitted.
• Defined an emergency to exist when the size or scope of the
suspected criminal activity "poses a serious threat to the
interest of the United States" and the military assistance in
question "would significantly enhance the enforcement" of
the law in question.
• Required that the secretary of defense, within 90 days of
enactment, complete an inventory of military equipment,
intelligence and personnel that could be made available to
civilian drug agencies for Interdiction efforts and develop a
plan for making such assistance available.
Upon receipt of the inventory and plan, the House and Senate
Armed Services committees would have 30 days to approve or
disapprove them.
• Authorized the Department of Defense to use $7 million of
any fiscal 1987 unobligated and uncommitted appropriations
to acquire equipment for use by the Civil Air Patrol for drug
interdiction surveillance and reporting missions.
• Established a United States-Bahamas drug interdiction task
force and authorized $15 million for its implementation — $9
million for three pursuit helicopters, $1 million to enhance
communications capabilities for task force operations, and $5
million for planning construction of a drug interdiction docking
facility in the Bahamas.
Anti-Smuggling Provisions
• Required the master of any vessel arriving from a foreign port,
any foreign vessel, or any vessel carrying foreign merchandise,
upon arrival in the United States, to report the vessel's arrival to
U.S. Customs Service officials within 24 hours.
• Stipulated that vehicles may arrive in the United States only at
designated crossing points.
• Authorized civil penalties of up to $10,000 for failure to
comply with arrival reporting requirements and provided
criminal penalties, including up to one year in prison, for anyone
in dharge of a vessel, vehicle, or aircraft found to have carried
illegal drugs Into the United States.
• Increased penalties for departure before report of entry and
for unauthorized unloading of passengers.
• Required individuals arriving in the United Stales on fool to
enter only at designated border crossing points and to report
immediately to customs, and Increased civil and imposed criminal
penalties for violations.
• Provided that individuals caught trying to smuggle controlled
substances be subject to a penalty of twice the price for which
that substance is likely to be Illegally sold to a consumer; and
directed the attorney general to establish a method for
determining that value.
• Increased penalties for falsifying cargo manifests and for
unlawful unloading of cargo.
• Made smuggling by air a separate offense, as well as the
unauthorized transfer of prohibited merchandise from an
aircraft to a ship, and imposed civil and criminal penalties of up
to $250,000 and 20 years in prison for violations involving
Illegal drugs.
• Authorized the forfeiture and sale of any vessel, vehicle, or
aircraft whose owner, operator, or other person in charge is
.-Subject tQ.ajjenaity for violation of customs.lavv,
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• Exempted from that provision common carriers unless the
person In charge participated In, had knowledge of the
violation, or was "grossly negligent" in preventing or discovering
the violation.
• Authorized the payment of rewards for persons who provide
original Information leading to the recovery of customs fines,
penalties or the forfeiture of properly. Awards may amount to 25
percent of the funds recovered or 25 percent of the appraised
value of forfeited properly, but may not In any case exceed
$250,000.
• Authorized the exchange of Information between U.S. customs
officers and foreign customs and law enforcement
agencies in certain situations.
• Authorized stationing of U.S. customs officers In foreign
countries to examine persons and merchandise prior to arrival
In the United States. Also authorized agreements permitting
foreign customs officials to be stationed In the United Slates,
but only if the country allows U.S. customs officials to be
stationed there.
• Authorized the Customs Service to buy properly, establish
businesses and take other steps needed to carry out undercover
investigations.
• Extended the Customs Service Forfeiture Fund through fiscal
1991 and Increased the celling on authorized appropriations
from the fund from $10 million to $20 million.
• Authorized U.S. customs officers to demand the assistance of
any person in making an arrest, search or seizure. Made
refusal to render such assistance a misdemeanor, subject to a fine
of up to $1,000, and provided that no one may be held liable
for civil damages as a result of rendering such assistance.
• Created a separate crime of knowingly or Intentionally manufacturing
or distributing, or possessing with Intent to manufacture
or distribute, controlled substances on board a vessel of the
United Stales or one subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Violators are
subject to the same penalties as If they were In U.S. territory.
• Allowed slates to Impose criminal penalties, including forfeiture
or seizure of an aircraft, for the use or attempted use of
forged or altered aircraft registration;.
• Authorized stale and local law enforcement officials to inspect
aircraft registrations.
• Made It a federal offense, in conjunction with a drug offense,
to operate an unregistered aircraft or to serve as an airman
without a valid airman's certificate or knowingly to employ such
a person; to operate an aircraft without use of required
navigation or anti-colllslon lights, or knowingly to operate an
aircraft whose fuel lank or system has been unlawfully modifled.
• Provided that violators be subject to forfeiture of the aircraft
as well as penalties of up to $25,000 in fines or up to five years
In jail.
• Authorized lor the Department of justice an additional $7
million for fiscal 1987 for the purchase of special radarequipped
helicopters for drug Interdiction operations In Hawaii.
• Authorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
to revoke the private operator's license of any person found
willfully ID have used that license to distribute or assist in the
distribution of illegal drugs
• Validated the standards set forth by the Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC) with respect to the consideration o( applications
by rail carriers to purchase trucking companies. The
purchase of North American Van lines by Norfolk Southern
Corp., which was approved by the ICC but rejected by the
courts, would be allowed.
Also, the ICC would be permitted to base a decision on the
application of Union Pacific Corp. to buy Overnlie Transportation
Co. on the same standards that It used In the Norfolk
Southern case.
Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Authorized $241 million for fiscal 1987 for alcohol abuse and
drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs.
• Stipulated that 4.5 percent of that amount be made available
to transfer to (he administrator of veterans' affairs to be used
for outpatient treatment, rehabilitation and counseling of veterans
for alcohol or drug abuse dependence or disabilities.
• Also stipulated that 1 percent of the funds be used by the
administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Menial
Health Administration (ADAMHA) to develop and evaluate
alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs to determine
the most effective forms of treatment.
• Stipulated that the remaining funds be allotted to the stales,
with 45 percent to be distributed on the basis of population
(although no stale may receive less than $50,000) and 55 percent
lo be distributed on the basis of need.
• Established within ADAMHA an Office of Substance Abuse
Prevention (ASAP) to sponsor regional workshops on drug
and alcohol abuse prevention, coordinate federal research findings
on the prevention of substance abuse, develop effective
substance abuse prevention literature and public service announcements,
and establish a national clearinghouse for alcohol
and drug abuse information.
• Authorized $20 million of the $241 million total for ASAP
administrative expenses for fiscal 1987.
• Directed ASAP lo make grants to public and private nonprofit
organizations for projects to demonstrate effective
models for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of drug and
alcohol abuse among high-risk youth.
ADAMHA Research
• Authorized $69 million for research activities for fiscal 1987
for the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA) and $129 million for research activities of the National
Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).
• Authorized the secretary of health and human services (NHS)
to expedite research on "public health emergencies," which
are lo be determined by the secretary in conjunction with the
commissioner of food and drugs or the director of the
Centers for Disease Control.
• Ordered the director of the National institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) to develop and publish Information regarding
the causes of suicide and means to prevent it, with special
emphasis on suicides among Individuals under age 21.
• Ordered a study on alkyl nitrites (over-the-counter substances
better known as "poppers") to determine the extent and
nature of their use, the extent to which that use conforms to the
advertised uses of the products, and the extent to which their
abuse presents a health risk.
• Ordered a study on the effect that health warning labels on
alcoholic beverage containers would have in reducing health
problems associated with alcohol, (p. 2662)
• Expressed the sense of Congress that the Motion Picture
Association of America should develop a new rating to
kkntify films that depict alcohol abuse and drug use.
• Extended to ADAMHA research animal care provisions mandated
for the National Institutes of Health In 1985 (PI 99-
158). (1985 Almanac p. 287)
• Ordered a study by the National Academy of Sciences of
alternative approaches and mechanisms tor the provision of
alcoholism and alcohol abuse treatment and rehabilitative services.
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Infant Formula
• Amefuied ihf Infani Formula Atl ol 1900 (PL 96-359) lo
require rhal each balth ol infani lortnula be lesied for each
essenli.il nuirienl before disiribulion and lo ensure purily.
• Required intanl formula manufacturers periodically lo tcsi
samples ihrounhoul the formula's shell life.
• Required manufaciurcrs to retain production records for one
year alter the formula's enpiralion date, and to keep a tile of
complaints <oncerninn the product.
• Gave the Food and DtuB Adminisiration increased authority
to order recall of defective formula, inclucfins authority to
order the posting of recall notices at points of sale.
Drug-Free Schools
• Auihoii/ed $200 million for fiscal 1987 and $250 million for
each of fiscal 1988 and 1909 for grants for drug abuse
education and prevention programs.
• Set aside 1 percent of the total for grants to U.S. territories;
0.2 percent for FHawaiian natives; 8 percent for higher education
insitlulions; 3.5 percent for federal activities and 4.5 percent
for regional centers.
• Allocated the remaining funds to the states, with grants to be
allotted on the basis of each state's school-age population,
except that no state would receive less than 0.5 percent of the
funds.
• Provided that 70 percent of the funds allotted to each state be
used by the stale educational agency to make grants to local
and intermediate education agencies for the development and
implementation of drug abuse education programs.
• Provided that 30 percent of the funds be available lo the
governor of each state for discrelionary grants to local public
and private non-profit organizations to develop and implement
community-based drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs.
At feast half of those grants must be for programs to help
youths at high risk lo become drug or alcohol abusers.
• Authorized the secretary of education to make competitive
grants to colleges and universities to provide teacher training
in drug and alcohol abuse education and prevention; training
programs for law enforcement officials, judicial officials, community
leaders and government officials; and to develop, implement,
operate and improve drug abuse prevention programs
for college and university students.
• Directed the secretary of education to provide information on
drug abuse education and prevention to the health and
human services secretary lor dissemination by a clearinghouse
for alcohol and drug abuse Information.
Also directed the education secretary to develop, publicize
and widely disseminate audio-visual and other drug abuse education
materials; provide technical assistance to state, local
and intermediate education agencies; and identify research and
development priorities with regard to school-based drug
abuse education and prevention.
• Stipulated that any materials produced or distributed with
funds under this section "shall reflect the message that illicit
drug use is wrong and harmful"
• Established a National Trust for Drug Free Youth to encourage
private gifts to assist in carrying out drug-abuse prevention
educational programs.
• Established a Presidential Media Commission on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Prevention to examine existing programs and
assist the implementation of new programs and national strategies
lor the dissemination via the media of information
Intended to prevent alcohol and drug abuse.
Indians and Substance Abuse
• Diiocted the seiiotary of the interior and the secretary of
health and human services (HHS) to determine and define the
scope of substance abuse problems among Indian tribes, and to
identify the resources and programs of the Bureau ol Indian
Affairs (BIA) and the Indian Health Service.
• Authorized the governing body of an Indian tribe to establish
a resolijtirm detailing a Tribal Action Plan to coordinate
available resources and programs in an effort to combat alcohol
and substance abuse among its members.
• Authorized $1 million for each of fiscal 1987, 1988 and 1989
for the secretary of the interior to make grants to Indian tribes
to provide technical assistance in the development ol Tribal
Action Plans.
• Established wihin the BIA an Office of Alcohol and Substance
Abuse, which shall be responsible for moniloring the performance
and compliance of BIA regarding drug and alcohol abuse
programs and shall serve as a point of contact within BIA for
Indian tribes interested in such programs.
• Established within the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
an Indian youth programs officer to advise the director of the
office.
• Directed the secretaries of HNS and interior to make available
for community use federal .facilities, property and equipment.
• Directed the secretary of the interior, in cooperation with the
NHS and education secretaries, to publish a quarterly newsletter
reporting on Indian alcohol and substance abuse projects and
programs. The newsletter is to be distributed free of charge to
schools, tribal offices, BIA agency and area offices, Indian Health
Service area and service unit offices, and Indian Health Service
alcohol programs.
• Authorized such sums as necessary for fiscal 1987, 1988 and
1909 for the establishment of a pilot program in selected
schools to determine the effectiveness of summer youth programs
in curbing Indian alcohol and substance abuse.
• Authorized $8 million annually for fiscal 1987 through 1989
for grants to tribes whose Tribal Action Plans provide for
emergency shelters or halfway houses for Indian youths who are
alcohol or substance abusers, including youths who have been
arrested for offenses directly or indirectly related to alcohol or
substance abuse.
• Directed the interior secretary to ensure that ail BIA and tribal
law-enforcement and judicial personnel have training in the
investigation and prosecution of offenses relating to illegal
narcotics and in alcohol and substance abuse prevention and
treatment. Authorized $1.5 million for each of fiscal 1987
through 1989 to provide such training.
• Authorized $15 million for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989
for the construction or renovation and staffing of tribal
juvenile detention and rehabilitation centers for Indian tribes.
• Directed the Indian Health Service to provide a program of
comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and
treatment, including acute detoxification and treatment, and
community-based rehabilitation.
• Authorized $9 million for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989 for
the construction or renovation and staffing of Indian youth
regional treatment centers, and an additional $3 million per year
for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989 for the renovation of
existing federal buildings to house such treatment centers.
• Authorized $9 million for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989 to
provide community-based rehabilitation services.
• Authorized $4 million for fiscal 1987 and such sums as
necessary lor fiscal 1988 and 1989 for the development and
implementation of a demonstration health promotion program.
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• Authorized $300,000 tor each of fiical 1987 through 1989 for a
demonstration program in Gallup, N.M., to rehabilitate adult
Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse.
Federal Lands, Employees, Organization
• For drug interdiction in U.S. territories, authorized for fiscal
1987: $7.8 million for Puerto Rico; $4 million lor the U.S.
Virgin Islands; $700,000 for American Samoa; $1 million lor
Guam; and $250,000 for the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Authorized law enforcement officers of American Samoa and
the Northern Mariana Islands, with approval of the attorney
general, to serve warrants and subpoenas, make arrests and seize
property as needed to enforce federal anti-drug laws
• Authorized $1 million for fiscal 1987 for the employment and
training of additional U.S. Park Police to improve federal law
enforcement activities relating to the use of illegal drugs in the
National Park System.
• Directed the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to
develop appropriate drug and alcohol abuse prevention,
treatment and rehabilitation programs for federal employees,
and directed the heads of all executive branch agencies to
establish such programs pursuant to OPM's guidelines.
Directed OPM to report to Congress within stx months of
enactment, and annually thereafter, descriptions of all agency
programs, levels of participation, training and qualifications of
personnel involved, and recommendations for legislation if warranted.
• Directed OPM to establish governmentwide programs to
inform federal workers about health hazards associated with
alcohol and drug abuse; symptoms of such abuse; availability of
prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programs; confidentiality
protections afforded in connection with such programs;
penalties lor substance abuse provided under law, rule or
regulation; and about possible administrative actions against
those who fail to seek or receive appropriate treatment or
rehabilitation services-
• Ordered an Institute of Medicine study of the extent to which
the cost of drug abuse treatment is covered by private
insurance, public programs and other sources of payment, and
the adequacy of such coverage for the rehabilitation of drug
abusers.
• Required the president, within six months of enactment, to
submit to Congress recommendations for legislation to reorganize
the pxecuiivc branch to combat more effectively international
drug traffic and drug abuse.
National Forest System
• Authorized $10 million for fiscal 1987 for the secretary of
agriculture to designate and train up to 500 U.S. Forest Service
oflircrs and employees to carry out anti-drug efforts within the
National Forest System.
• Authorized the designated personnel to carry firearms, to
conduct invesligalions of drug law violations relating to illegal
drugs manufactured, distributed or dispensed on National Forest
System lands, to make arrests with or without a warrant for
misdetiieanors, to serve warrants, and to make searches and
seizures. ,
• Created a new offense of placing a booby trap on federal
property where a controlled substance is being manufactured,
distributed or dispensed, with penalties of up to 10 years in jail
and $10,000 for a first offense, and up to 20 years and $20,000
for a second or greater offense.
• Defined "booby trap" as any concealed or camouflaged
device designed to cause bodily injury when triggered by an
unsuspecting person making contact with the device.
Ballistic Knife Prohibition
• Prohibited the manufacture, sale, importation and mailing of
ballistic knives, which have spring-loaded, detachable blades
that can be shot like a gun.
• Provided penalties of up to 10 years in prison for the use of a
ballistic knife in the commission of a violent crime.
Eligibility of Homeless for Welfare
• Extended eligibility for food stamps to homeless individuals
with no fixed address if they would otherwise meet eligibility
requirements.
• Authorized homeless individuals who qualify for food stamps
to use them to purchase prepared meals at soup kitchens or
homeless shelters. (Previously, food stamps could be used only to
purchase groceries.)
• Ordered the HHS secretary to devise a method of making
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments to homeless
individuals. SSI is the federal welfare program 'or the needy
aged, blind and disabled.
• Designated the homeless as a target group for employment
training under the job Training Partnership Act (PL 97-300).
• Extended Medicaid health coverage to otherwise eligible
homeless individuals and ordered the HHS secretary to devise
a method of providing eligibility cards to homeless beneficiaries.
• Ordered the HHS secretary to issue guidelines to the states
for providing benefits to homeless children under the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
• Ordered the HHS secretary, with the secretary of agriculture,
to develop a system allowing individuals to apply lor SSI
benefits and food stamps prior to discharge or release from a
public institution such as a mental hospital or prison.
• Specified that a homeless individual may not be denied
veterans' benefits because of the lack of a fixed address.
Wrongful Cyanide Use
• Ordered a study by the administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) of the manufacturing and distribution
process of cyanide to determine ways to safeguard the
public from cyanide's wrongful use. The study is to examine
the feasibility and desirability of a number of options, including
requiring cyanide to be dyed a distinctive color and requiring
Increased record-keeping for those who manufacture and sell
the chemical.
• Authorized such sums as necessary to carry out the study.
Miscellaneous
• Authorized $6 million for each of fiscal 1987 and 1988 for the
director of the ACTION domestic volunteer agency to use to
mobilize and initiate private sector efforts to increase volunteer
aclivliy aimed at preventing drug abuse.
• Authorized $3 million lor fiscal 1987-88 combined lor the
sorreiary of labor to collect Information concerning the
incidence of drug abuse in the work place.
Funding Intent
• Expressed the sense of the Senate that funds to carry out the
new drug initiatives should be provided as new budget
authority for fiscal 1987 and not through transfers from or
reductions in amounts appropriated for other programs.
Truck, Bus Driver Licensing
• Recjuired the iransprarlatlon secretary to issue regulations by
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July 15, 1988, esiabliihing minimum standards for state testing
and licensing of operators of commercial vehicles. Regulations
must include a requirement for a driving test on the type of
vehicle that the person operates or will operate. Also, the state
license must specify the type of vehicle the operator is eligible
to drive.
For drivers of vehicles carrying hazardous materials, regulations
must ensure that the operator has a working knowledge of
the handliitg of such material and the appropriate response in
an emergency.
Licensing standards must apply to trucks weighing more than
26,000 pounds and to vehicles, such as buses, designed to carry
more than 15 passengers. They may apply to commerciai
vehicles of more than 10,000 pounds at the discretion of the
transportation secretary.
• Banned a driver of a commercial motor vehicle from having
more than one license, subject to certain limited exceptions,
effective July 1, 1987.
• Required a commercial driver who violates a traffic law its a
state other than the one in which his or her license was issued
to notify the license-issuing state of the violation within 30 days.
The driver also must notify his or her employer of a traffic
violation and of a severe restriction on his license imposed by a
state, such as a suspension.
• Prohibited employers from knowingly allowing an employee
to drive a big truck or bus if the employee has more than one
license or has had his license suspended or otherwise seriously
restricted by a state.
• Required the transportation secretary to establish an information
system to serve as a clearinghouse to enable states and
employers to share data on safety violations by commercial
drivers, or to contract with stales or private entities for the use
of an existing system. At a minimum, the system must include
data on whether an operator has had his or her license
suspended or otherwise restricted by a state. Federal funds of $2
miliion annually through fiscal 1989 were authorized for the
Department of Transportation (DOT) operation of this program.
• Required the secretary to set fees to be charged for use of the
system.
• Required, as a general rule, license suspension for one year
for any commercial driver who commits a first violation of
driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance;
leaving the scene of an accident; or using his or her vehicle in
the commission of a felony. If the felony was committed with a
vehicle carrying hazardous materials, the suspension must be
for at least three years. If the felony involved controlled substances,
then suspension must be for life.
• Required, as a general rule, lifetime license suspenston for
commercial drivers who commit a second offense of driving
under the influence of alcohol or drugs; leaving the scene of an
accident; or using their vehicles In the commission of a felony.
The transportation secretary may establish guidelines under
which a lifetime suspension for any of these second offenses may
be reduced to a period of not less than 10 years.
• Set mandatory federal penalties against commercial drivers
who commit serious traffic violations, such as excessive speeding,
as defined fay the transportation secretary by regulation. A
driver who commits two serious violations within a three-year
period must have his or her license suspended for at least 60
days. Suspension would rise to at least 120 days for a driver
who commits three serious violations within a three-year period.
• Required that drivers who violate a current federal regulation
prohibiting them from drinking within four hours of reporting
to work be placed out of service immediately for a 24-hour
period. Proponents say a current requirement for employers
to fire drivers_who bre_^ti_^this rule is difficult to, enforce. _
• Set civil penalties of fines of up to $2,500 against drivers for
violations such as carrying more than one license and failing to
notify employers or the license-issuing state of safety violations.
• Set criminal penalties of up to a $5,000 fine or 90 days in jail,
or both, for "knowingly and willfully" violating such requirements
as notifying employers and the state of safety violations.
• Required a study within-one year by the National Academy of
Sciences on the appropriateness of shifting the standard for
determining drunken driving from 0,10 percent blood-alcohol
content to 0,04 percent blood-alcohol content.
No later than one year after enactment, the transportation
secretary must begin preparing a rule to determine whether the
standard should be reduced from 0.10 percent to 0.04 percent,
or to some percentage less than 0.10 percent.
No later than two years after enactment, the secretary must
issue a rule setting the standard at 0.10 percent or a lesser
percentage. The standard would become 0.04 percent if no
rule is issued during this period.
• Set sanctions against states that fail to comply with the
licensing standards and other requirements imposed by the
legislation. Stales not "substantially" in compliance by Oct. 1,
1993, would lose 5 percent of their federal highway aid
otherwise due; highway aid would be reduced by 10 percent for
subsequent years of non-compliance.
• Authorized grants to states to set up drivers' testing programs
and the information-sharing system, among other purposes.
Grants would total $10 million in fiscal 1987, $10 million in 1986,
$15 million in 1989 and $13 million in each of 1990 and 1991.
To be eligible in fiscal years 1987-89, a state must have in
effect a standard of 0.10 blood-alcohol content or less for
determining drunkenness. To be eligible after fiscal 1989, a
state also must operate a drivers' testing and licensing program
that conforms to minimal federal standards.
• Authorized separate grants to states for safety inspections of
commercial vehicles of $45 million in fiscal 1987 and fiscal
1988; and $47 million in fiscal years 1989-91.
• Allowed the transportation secretary to waive any provisions
of the legislation or any regulation issued under the legislation
with respect to a^articular class of drivers or class of vehicles.
However, the secretary must determine the waiver is not
contrary to the public interest and will not diminish the safe
operation of commercial vehicles.
• Mandated a change in federal regulations to require trucks
and truck tractors manufactured after July 24, 1980, to have
brakes operating on all wheels.
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fcquiir lh.ll I-Jih ti.iHh ol uil.nxl foimuU l>.' I.'sti-d iot OJih
cssi-niiiil niilru' i i t b i ' l o ' i ' liivii'lHi'i"" cisuiv piifily
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sdin[)li'<. ihioiiKhmil ihi- (ormiiUS i h i ' l l lilp
• Ki'CHJiri'cl III.IIHII.II UIM'IS in ti-i.im pinifin mm fri miK N" imi'
liMi -ifu i Ihi' liirmul.rv i-ipii.i'iim d.iH'. -"iil In kni'p J ( i l l ' ot
(imipl,mii\ I OIK cfninn i h i ' pfoiiui I
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unlcr ihn poMinu nt ii'i.iH nnliii-s .11 pomis nl s . l t f
Drug-Free Schools
• Aiillioii/i'd S20U iiKlliim foi listji 1987 jnil $250 million (oi
i-jih ol (isidl 1908 jnd 1909 for •<" «husc •-
cdutaiion dntl prcvcnlion proRrams.
• Scl aside 1 pericnl ol ihe loidi loi kkh.is IO U.S. (errilorios,
0.2 pcifcol (or Hdwjiian natives: 0 percent for higher education
inslilutlons; 3.5 percrni tor federal aciivilies and 4,5 percent
for regional centers.
• Allocated ihc remaining funds to the stales, with grants to be
allotted on the basis of ctach state's school-age population,
except that no state would receive less than 0.5 percent of the
funds.
TProvided that 70 percent of the funds allotted to each state be
used by the state educational agency to make grants to local
and intermediate education agencies for the development and
implementation ol drug abuse education programs.
"•Provided that 30 percent of the funds be available to the
governor of each state lor discretionary grants to local public
and private non-profit organizations to develop and implement
community-based drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs.
At least half of those grants must be for programs to help
__youihs at high risk to become drug or alcohol abusers.
• Authorized the secretary of education to make competitive
grants to colleges and universities to provide teacher training
in drug and alcohol abuse education and prevention; training
programs lor law enforcement officials, judicial officials, co"""
munity leaders and government officials; and to develop, implement,
operate and improve drug abuse prevention programs
for college and university students.
• Directed the secretary ol education to provide information on
drug abuse education and prevention to the health and
human services secretary for dissemination by a clearinghouse
for alcohol and drug abuse information.
Also directed the education secretary to develop, publicize
and widely disseminate audio-visual and other drug abuse education
materials; provide technical assistance to stale, local
and Intermediate education agencies; and identify research and
development priorities with regard to school-based drug
abuse education and prevention.
• Stipulated that any materials produced or distributed with
funds under this section "shall lelleci the message that illicit
drug use is wrong and harmful."
• tstablishcd a National Trust for Drug free Youth to encourage
private gifts to assist in carrying oot drug-abuse prevention
educational programs.
• Established a Presidential Media Commission on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Prevention to examine existing prograims and
assist the implementation of new programs and national strategies
for the dissemination via the media of Information
— Inwwtfc^-te pf»*w> alcotwtiand dwig"*bui*
.Jndians-ancLSubstance Abuse _—
• Diiecleil the sei rotary ot the interior and ihi^ secretary of
health and human serviies (HMS) to determine and define the
stope ol subsi.KK e aliose prohlrms among Indian Inbcs, anil to
identify the resounes and programs of the Bureau of Indian
Allairs (BIA) and the Intlian Health Service.
• Authori/etl 'he Koverning hoity ol an Indian tribe to establish
.1 resolution dei.iilmg .i Tiih.il Artion Pl.in to loordin.iie
avail.ihle lesoiKies .uiil jirograms in .in edort to lomli.tl all oho!
and substanie .tbose .tinong its membois.
• Aulborired $1 million lot each ol bsi.ii 1907, 1988 and 1989
lot the setiel.iry ol ibe interior to m.ike grants to Indi.in tribes
111 provide leilinii.il .issisl.ini e in the development of Tnb.tl
A( lion PI,ins
• Isiabtished svllim the HIA an Olliic ol Alrohol anil Substanie
Abuse, wliiih shall be responsible lor monitoring the perlormance
and complianic ol BIA regarding drug and alcohol abuse
programs and shall serve as a point of contact within BIA lor
Indian tribes interested in such programs.
• Fsiablrshed within the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
an Indian youth programs officer 10 advise the director of the
oltii'C
• Directed the secretaries of HHS and interior to make available
for community use federal facilities, property and equipment.
• Directed the secretary ol the interior, in cooperation with the
HHS and education secteiaries, to publish a quarterly newsletter
reporting on Indian alcohol and substance abuse projects and
programs. The newsletter is to be distributed free of charge to
schools, tribal offices, BIA agency and area offices, Indian Health
Service area and service unit offices, and Indian Health Service
alcohol programs.
• Authorized such sums as necessary for fiscal 1987, 1988 and
1989 lor the establishment of a pilot program in selected
schools to determine the effectiveness of summer youth programs
in curbing Indian alcohol and substance abuse.
• Authorized $8 million annually for fiscal 1987 through 1969
for grants to tribes whose Tribal Action Plans provide for
emergency shelters or halfway houses for Indian youths who are
alcohol or substance abusers, including youths who have b«n
arrested for offenses directly or indirectly related to alcohol or
substance abuse.
• Directed the interior secretary to ensure that all BIA and tribal
law-enforcement and judicial personnel have training in the
investigation and prosecution of offenses relating to illegal
narcotics and in alcohol and substance abuse prevention and
treatment. Authorized $1.5 million for each of (iscal 1987
through 1989 to provide such training.
• Authorized $15 million for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989
for the construction or renovation and staffing of tribal
juvenile detention and rehabilitation centers for Indian tribes.
• Directed the Indian Health Service to provide a program of
comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and
ireaimeni, including acute detoxification and treatment, and
community-based rehabilitation.
• Authorized $9 million for each ot fiscal 1987 through 1969 for
the construction or renovation and staffing of Indian youth
regional treatment centers, and an additional $3 million per year
lor each of fiscal 1987 through 1989 for the renovation of
existing federal buildings to house such treatment centers.
• Authorized $9 million for each of fiscal 1987 through 1989 to
provide community-based rehabilitation services.
• Authorized $4 million for fiscal 1987 and such sums as
necessary for fiscal 1968 and 1989 for Ihc development and
implemern^tkzn of a detnonstrailon health promotion program.
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i
law/Jvdkiary - 6
• Exempted from that provision common carriers unless the
person in charge participated in, had knowledge of the
violatiort, or was "grossly negligent" in preventing ot discovering
the violation.
• Authorized the payment ol rewards for persons who provide
original information leading to the recovery of Customs fines,
penalties or the forfeiture of property. Awards may amount to 25
percent ol the funds recovered or 25 percent of the apprahed
value of forfeited property, but may not in any case exceed
J250,000.
• Authorized the exchange ol information between U.S. customs
officers and foreign customs and law enforcement
agencies in certain situations.
• Authorized stationing ol U.S. customs officers in foreign
countries to examine persons and merchandise prior to arrival
in the United States. Also authorized agreements pecmitting
foreign customs officials to be stationed in the United States,
but only if the country allows U.S. customs officials to be
stationed there.
• Authorized the Customs Service to buy property, establish
businesses and take other steps needed to carry out undercover
investigations.
• Extended the Customs Service Forfeiture Fund through fiscal
1991 and increased the ceiling on authorized appropriations
from the fund from SIO million to $20 million.
• Authorized U.S. customs officers to demand the assistance of
any person in making an arrest, search or seizure. Made
refusal to render such assistance a misdemeanor, subject to a fine
of up to $1,000, and provided that no one may be held liable
for civil damages as a result of rendering such assistance.
• Created a separate crime of knowingly or intentionally manufacturing
or distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture
or distribute, controlled substances on board a vessel of the
United States or one subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Violators are
subject to the same penalties as if they were in U.S. territory.
• Allowed states to impose criminal penalties, including forfeiture
or seizure of an aircraft, for the use or attempted use of
forged or altered aircraft regislratior\s.
• Authorized stale and local law enforcement officials to inspect
aircraft registrations.
• Made it a federal offense, in conjunction with a drug offense,
to operate an unregistered aircraft or to serve as an airman
without a valid airman's certificate or knowingly to employ such
a person, to operate an aircraft without use of rcciuired
navigation or anti-collision lights, or knowingly to operate an
aircraft whose fuel tank or system has been unlawfully modified.
• Provided that violators be subject to forfeiture of the aircraft
,IS well as penalties of up to $25,000 in fines or up to live years
in jail.
• Authorized lot the Department of justice an atfditional $7
million for fiscal 19B7 for the purchase ol special r.id.ire<
iuippe<l helicopters Irtr drug interdit lion operjiions in Hawaii
• Authorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
to revoke the private operator's license of any person found
willliilly to have used that license to disinhuie ot assist in the
distribution ol illegal drugs ^
• Validated the standards set forth by the interstate Ctstnmetce
Commission (ICC) with respect to the consideration of applications
by tail carriers to purchase trucking companies. The
purchase ol North American Van lines by Norlolk Southern
Corp., which was approved by the ICC but rcfccied by the
. courts, would be allowed.__
Also, the ICC would be permitted to base a decision on the
application of Union Pacific Corp. to buy Overnite Transporialion
Co. on the same standards that it used in the Norfolk
Southern case.
Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Authorized $241 million for fiscal 1987 tor alcohol abuse and
drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs.
• Slipuiaied that 4.5 percent of that amount be made available
to transfer to the administrator of veterans' affairs to be used
for outpatient treatment, rehabilitation and counseling of veterans
for alcohol or drug abuse dependence or disabilities.
• Also stipulated that 1 percent of the funds be used by the
administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental
Health Administration (ADAMHA) to develop and evaluate
alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs to determine
the most effective forms of treatment.
• Stipulated that the remaining funds be alloiled to the stales,
with 45 percent to be distributed on the basis of population
(although no slate may receive less than $50,000) and 55 percent
to be distributed on the basis of need re Established within ADAMHA an Office of Substance Abuse
Prevention (ASAP) to sponsor regional workshops on drug
and alcohol abuse prevention, coordinate federal research findings
on (he prevention of substance abuse, develop effective
substance abuse prevention literature and public service announcements,
and ^tablish a national clearinghouse for alcohol
and drug abuse information.
• Authorized $20 million of the $241 mitiion total lor ASAP
_..,__^administrative expenses for fiscal 1987.
\ • Directed ASAP to make grants to public and private nor-
1 profit organizations for projects to demonstrate effective
models for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of drug and
I alcohol abuse among high-risk youth.
ADAMHA Research
• Authorized $69 million for research activities for fiscal 1967
lor the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA) and $129 million few research activities ol the National
Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).
• Authorized the secretary of health and human services (HHS)
to expedite research on "public health emergencies." which
•are to be determined by the secretary in conjunction with the
commissioner of food and drugs or the director of the
Centers for Disease Control
• Ordered the director of the National Institute of Menial
Health (NIMH) to develop and publish Information regarding
the causes of suicide and means lo prevent it. with special
emphasis on suicides among individuals under age 21.
• Ordered a study on alkyl nitrites (over-the-counter substances
belter known as "poppers") lo determine the extent and
nature of their use, the extent lo wbicti that use conforms to the
advertised uses of the products, and the extent to which their
abuse presents a health risk.
• Ordered a study on the effect thai health warning labc-ls on
alcoholic beverage coniaincis would have in reducing health
problems associated with alcohol, t'p. 2i62)
• Expressed the sense of Congress that the Molnin Picture
Association of America should develop a new rating to
ideniily films thai depict alcohol abuse and drug use.
• Extended to ADAMHA research animal care provisions mandated
for the National Institutes of Health in 1985 (PI 99-
158). (1985 A/manac p. 287)
• Ordered a study by the National Academy ot Sciences of
alternative approaches and mechanisms for the provision of
alcofioiisrirand alcohol abuse trcairrieni arid rchahilitaiivc 'ibrV-'
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uii'-'SPccls and training tor KrowiiiK
substitute crops aiicl subsidized at
$2,000 per family in the early
stages of production.
The eradication program thereafter
becomes involuntary and
tions listed as cooperating with U.S.
narcotics control efforts in the annual
survey of international drug
traffic put out yesterday by the
State Department, That will allow
Ifolivia to continue receiving U.S.
leaf plunimeieti from $12.') per 100-
pouiul bag in July, wlieii the program
began, to $l.'> or less in August.
The new program is designed
to keep the market unstable so as to
entice producers to other croiw.
World Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana Output Up
U.S. to Curb Aid to Nations Uncooperative in War on Drugs
By Mary Thornton
VV.isliiikKioM |'<H( SunlWnior
Worldwide production of heroin,
cocaine and marijuajia incrca.sed
significantly last year, despite U.S.
enforcement efforts that included
nearly $60 million in drug enforcement
assistance to supplier coimtrie.
s, a State Department report
said yesterday.
The department, releasing its
annua! report on the worldwide narcotics
situation, indicated the administration
has decided to make
limited use of a new tool included in
drug legislation enacted last year—
to require that certain foreign aid
be withheld from drtig-producing
countries that are not certified as
cooperating in the U.S. war on
drugs.
Ann Wrobleski, assistant secretary
for international narcotics matters,
said that President Reagan has
denied certification only to Iran,
Afghanistan, and Syria, which do
not receive U.S. narcotics control
assistance.
Wrobleski said that Mexico and
Pakistan continue to be two trouble
spots.
Calling Mexico the "highest U.S.
narcotics control priority," Wrobleski
said that although Mexico ha.s
increased its eradication efforts for
opium and marijuana, Mexico is the
primary country supplying heroin
and marijuana to the United States,
and that one-third of the cocaine
entering this country is shipped
through Mexico.
She added that the progress in
investigating drug traffickers who
murdered a U.S. drug agent in
1985 and tortured another last year
has been "slow" and that "no major
traffickers were brought to trial in
1986."
In Pakistan, opium production
more than tripled between 1984
and last year, "This setback was a
direct result of the government of
Pakistan's failure to respond swiftly
when faced with strong opposition
by growers to its control policies,"
the report said.
Despite the problems, Wrobleski
said, "1986 gave us a clear indication
that countries are on the right
track. In many ways, this year was
a turning point—in attitudes, in
commitment, in worldwide resources
dedicated to narcotics control.
The international community
has stood up to narcotics producer.s
and traffickers and there is simply
no turning back."
The report .said, "The story of
1986 is one of increased demand on
a global scale that threatens to
<irive up production across the
board and perhaps beyond our nearterm
capabilities if it is not curbed
soon."
The report, based on international
estimates, found that production
of opium, the chief ingredient in
heroin, jumped by about 50 percent,
from as much as 1,640 metric
tons in 1985 to 2,515 tons last
year. Coca, from which cocaine is
derived, increased from 161,000
metric tons to as much as 188,320.
Marijuana production rose from
about 10,725 metric tons in 1985
to 13,405 tons last year.
Only hashish production was
down, from 1,380 tons in 1985 to
1,260 tons last year, the report said.
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March 17, 1988
TO: SENATOR
FROM: CRAIG
RE: CITY OF NORTH LAS VEGAS MEETING (3/22)
In regard to the Reagan Administration's Budget Proposal for Fyi989
in the area of "drug programs," the following information should be
useful:
Drug Enforcement and Prevention:
A significant share of the increase in law enforcement outlays
has come in the area of drug enforcement, and the campaign against
drugs has been one of the Reagan administration's top domestic
priorities. Since 1980, the Federal budget for anti-drug programs
has grown from just under $1 billion to a proposed level of nearly
$3.7 billion in 1989, a 300 percent increase. In real terms,
outlays have grown from about $1.2 to $2.9 billion. (Precisely
comparable numbers are not available beforte 1980, because anti-drug
activities are carried out by several agencies, and previous
administrations did not attempt to identify their cost as
specifically as this administration, but it is clear that outlays
have grown much more in the 1980s than in any previous period.)
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) illustrates the
increasing commitment. Real outlays have grown twice as fast in
this administration as they did previously. Outlays have grown from
$243 million in 1980 to $345 million in 1989. Similarly, real
outlays for the Coast Guard increased by 10 percent from $1.3
billion in 1980 to $1.4 million. The Coast Guard's drug
interdiction activities are an important component of the
administration war on drugs.
In addition to increasing the budget for drug enforcement, the
administration has also increased the number of agencies involved in
the war against drugs, and the degree of cooperation among agencies.
More than 20 Federal agencies are now actively involved in the
struggle to drive illegal narcotics out of this country. Also, the
Departments of Health and Human Services and Education lead the
Federal effort to reduce the demand for drugs, by convincing young
people that they should never begin to use drugs. HHS also provides
leadership asnd considerable funding for treatment activities aimed
at those who have made the mistake of taking drugs.
The Justice Department carries out criminal investigations
through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA>) The FBI and DEA frequently work
together with other Federal agencies in 13 regional task forces on
organized crime drug enforcement and have concurrent juridiction to
combat drug trafficking.
BUDGET AUTHORITY IN THIS AREA: (in millions)
Federal law enforcement activities (DEA,FBI, and OCDE):
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
$1,788 $1,883 $2,041 $2,061 $2,055
U.S. DEPARTMENT OP JDSTICB
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
National Institute of Justice
Bureau of Justice Stat i i
Dear Senator: 16 MAR 1907
Enclosed is the announcement
of a grant award to your
State.
If you have any questions
concerning this award, please
call Office of Congressional
Liaison, 724-7694.
Dorothy W. Kuhn
Director
Office of Congressional
Liaison
Office of Justice Prograns
Sejjartment of 3uott« '' 0 ^
' '® IHll-07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BJA
(202)724-7782
The Bureau of Justice Assistance, which is a U.S. Department
of Justice agency within the Office of Justice Programs, has
awarded $36,100 to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and
Public Safety to begin the state's federally-assisted drug law
enforcement program.
The award was made under a new program created by the
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. The act gives the Bureau, a U.S.
Department of Justice agency within the Office of Justice
Programs, authority to make grants to the states to help them
and their units of local government enforce their anti-narcotics
statutes.
The amount awarded is 10 percent of the funds available to
the state and will be used for program administration. Before
receiving its full award, the state must submit to the Bureau a
statewide strategy for enforcing drug laws.
The state eventually will receive a base amount of $500,000
as well as an additional amount apportioned according to its
population. The funds may be used for apprehension,
prosecution, adjudication, correctional services, eradication,
treatment and rehabilitation of drug-dependent offenders, and
demonstration programs leading to the identification and
prosecution of major drug traffickers.
Additional information about this grant is available from
the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, Carson City,
Nevada, 702./885-5380.
87-76
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or aiswuTHOMIS—RIIC WASHINQTON posr
an Lynn with children William Gearin, left, and Kelly Gearin.
the D.C. Nurses Association, "the
hospital is spending thousands and
thousands of dollars on overtime,
usage of temporary nurses and recruitment
of and housing for foreign-
trained nurses."
Nelson said the hospital had lost
more than 50 of its 320 nurses
since last summer, threatening safe
patient care. The hospital l<»t its
accreditation three years ago,
largely because of nursing shortages.
it won back the approval, but
the current shortage could threaten
accreditation again.
Kenneth Green, associate director
of the Higher Education Research
Institute at the University of
California at L.os Angeles, notes
that nursing, along with other traditionally
female fields of teaching,
social work and hcunemaking, consistently
has .lost appeal in surveys
of college freshmen.
"Women are beginning to look
more like men in terms of their attitudes
and values, especially when
it comes to money, material rewards
and to attitudes about job and
career," Green said.
Miller, of the D.C. Nurses Association,
says, that until health care
employers recognize that nurses
are primary wage earners and
adopt flexible schedules, job sharing,
child care facilities and parental
leave, the shortages will continue.
"With the number of nurses getting
into hospital administration,
)I1NS0N
Administrative post
ninistration at the
Aland, is typical of
nurses. She
bt patient care for
lity assurance so
jtiine for her two
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Antidrug Tactic Targets Aid
Jleims, Kerry Seek to Penalize 3 Countries
By Joe Pichiralio
WashiiiKtmi Staff Writer
Sens. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and
John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who often
represent opposite ends of the political
spectrum, are leading an effort
to force the Reagan administration
to penalize the Bahamas,
Panama and Mexico for serving as
international drug-trafficking centers.
Under a provision of a major antidrug
law enacted last year, countries
linked to the drug trade risk
losing half their U.S. aid and U.S.
backing for international development
loans if they fail to cooperate
with efforts to combat drug smuggling
and laundering of illicit profits.
The administration has certified
to Congress that the Bahamas, Panama
and Mexico are among 19
countries linked to the drug business
but cooperating, and therefore
eligible for foreign aid and other
U.S. financial support.
Kerry, a liberal, and Helms, a
conservative, are asking Congress
to overturn the administration's
certification of the three countries.
Aides to both said yesterday that
the two senators agr^ to set aside
sharp differences on most issues
because they share an aversion to
drug trafficking.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee is schedul^ to vote on
the matter today.
The aides said that the flow of illicit
drugs, particularly cocaine, into,
the United States is increasing and
that it is hjTKtcritical for the Reagan
administration to argue that the Bahamas,
Mexico and Panama are cooperating
with antidrug efforts.
They said the three countries
suffer from internal corruption and
have repeatedly ignored U.S. requests
for serious crackdowns oo
drug trading.
The aides said both senators also
want to spur the State Department,
which handles the certifications for
the president, to take a tougher line
in drag discussions with the three
countries.
State Department officials, however,
said yesterday that the three
have increased their cooperation in
the last year and that it would be
counterproductive to sanction them.
"We felt we would use the [new]
law to our advantage," said Rayburn
Hess, a State Department narcotics
official. "We ask^ for higher levels
of cooperation, and we got it."
For example, Hess said, the Bahamas
is allowing U.S. officials to;-
pursue drug smugglers into its wa-*'
ters and air space, Panama has^
passed a new antidrug law and Mex-;
ico has increased programs to erad-"
icate marijuana and heroin sources.
Under the law, Hess said, the..,
amount of foreign aid involved'
would be $200,090 for Mexico, -
$100,000 for the Bahamas and '
$19.8 million for Panama. ^
The law also requires U.S. officials,'
to vote against noncooperating countries'
api^cations for international
development loans from the World ,
Bank and similar institutions. Mexico ,
plans to seek more than $1 billion in',
new loans this year. He^ said.
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4230 South Bumham Avenue
Suite 250
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-5412
(702) 733-7866
December 17, 1987
Senator Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D^Cj 20510
Dear Senate
D ^C^ 2^
Clinical Ethology
Anaiomic Ethology
RTTeiuic Ibxlcology
President;
John P. Schwanz
Director
Henry B. Solovtoy, M.D
A&sociate ^ihologisu
R o b e r t R . B e l J I v e a u . M X
Thome J, BuUer. M.D
Anunciacion S. Yballe. M.D
David A. Mulkey, M.t
Ailen R. Ancs. M.D
W. Howaid Hoffmar), M.D
Jean £. McCuskcr. M.D
Dantel P. Molden. M.D
LeMinh Hang. M.D
James M. Small. M.D,. Ph D
Carol A. van der Hanen-Algier, M.D
Sckniinc Staff
Boniia M. Cornell. Ph D
John E. Hiaa. Ph.D
Chief Technologist
Jo Anne Edwards. M.T. (ASCP)
Today, 1 received two applications from the contractor to the
National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for their National
Laboratory Certification program. One form was an application
to apply for the certification program, the other was asking
if I would participate as an inspector for that program.
Portions of both of these applications have given me a
mixture of anger, frustration, and disappointment.
In early November, I met with you and your staff discussing
my concerns on the approach of NIDA in developing a national
laboratory accreditation for laboratories performing urine
drug testing in the workplace. This certification ostensively
is only to serve federal agencies testing their civilian
employees. But it is obvious that this certification will
become a national standard.
During my visit, Craig Simmons of your staff discussed with
me this question in more detail. Furthermore 1 forwarded to
Mr. Simmons additional materials on past communications and
documents between NIDA and AACC-CAP.
I admit that I have a special interest in these questions. As
both a forensic toxicologist and as the commissioner for
forensic laboratory accreditation for the College of American
Pathologists (CAP), I believe that a voluntary accreditation
system which CAP has had in place for 27 years deserves
better consideration by NIDA than has been evidenced over the
last six months.
I am enclosing my more detailed comments why 1 have become
angered by what NIDA proposes in their certification process.
Why should the federal government spend about a million
dollars for an un-needed program? The laboratory community
(particularly the forensic laboratory community) is concerned
about the direction of the NIDA program. Many strongly
believe that the program is or will be directed by the
mi 1itary model.
Nevada Stale Medical Laboratory License No. 4
Title XIX Vendor No. 27-02240
CAP No. 89109-004
DEPT. OF H.E.W. S.S.A. NO- 29-8013
I hope that you can use your office to at least have NIDA sit
down and discuss with AACC-CAP to grant equivalency for these
Thome J. Butler, H.D.
cc Mr. Craig E. Simmons
Copy to Las Vegas office
A FURTHER STATEMENT ON THE NIDA NATIONAL LABORATORY
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.
SUBMITTED BY THORNE J. BUTLER, M.D.
I have a mixture of anger, disappointment and frustration by
the actions taken by NIDA in their now being established
national laboratory certification program.
The need for proper accreditation of laboratories performing
urine drug testing in the workplace has become increasingly
apparent. The Presidential directive for the testing for the
federal civilian workforce, ever increasing challenges to the
reliability and accuracy of such urine testing and published
papers spelling out the criteria for what constitutes legally
defendable tests have mandated the need for proper
accreditation of these drug testing laboratories. The College
of American Pathologists (CAP) with 27 years of experience in
laboratory evaluation inspection and accreditation for more
than 4,000 medical laboratories worldwide in more than 52
different analytical disciplines decided to establish a
forensic urine drug testing accreditation program to fulfill
this public need. The program is being added to the present
toxicology proficiency inspection programs entitled; Advanced
Toxicology, Urine Toxicology, Blood Alcohol, and Blood Lead
subscribed to by some 1,000 laboratories. The CAP has had
regulatory experience since the blood lead program is used as
a regulatory basis for accrediting those laboratories
permitted to analyze samples in the OSHA surveillance
programs.
Taking guidance from the NIDA guidelines established by an
advisory committtee of well-known prominent foensic
toxicologists, the CAP in concert with the American
Association of Clinical Chemists (<AACC) has established a
detailed stringent accreditation program.
That program was in place by April 1987 and submitted to NIDA
for their review and comment. The AACC-CAP did not bid on the
NIDA RFP for the initial certification program for several
reasons; the primary being, that the subsidy would be limited
to only 50 laboratories. By August 1987 announcements were
widely distributed nationally to the laboratorty community
announcing the availability of this new program. By October
143 laboratories signed up for the program. (Obviously the 50
laboratory limit established by NIDA was ill-based.) On
November 2, each participant laboratory received the first of
four open blind proficiency samples requiring analysis. The
results from that first set have been analyzed, graded and
results sent to participating laboratories. The participants
in this program received their second sample set on December
3 and will receive the subsequent two sets on January 3 and
February 2, 1968.
The fee charged the laboratories for the application and
samples was $540.00. Furthermore, the applying laboratories
received a copy of the checklist spelling out the stringent
requirements to the program. If after review of those
requirements the laboratory felt that it could not meet those
standards they had two weeks to withdraw and receive a total
refund.
What has NIDA done? There application package was delivered
on December 14, 1987. Only 50 laboratories found acceptable
will be included in the first phase of the program. But all
applicants will pay a non-refundable $300 fee. If a
laboratory is not acceptable in this first round and the
program is reopened in the future then another $300 fee will
be required. For the three proficiency samples the laboratory
will pay $1500. For these services (application and
proficiency sample sets) the laboratories are paying only
30% of the cost while 70% will be subsidized by the federal
government. In essence the application and the three
proficiency sets for analysis will cost $6000 per laboratory
applicant compared to the $540 charged by the AACC-CAP
program. The contractor obviously has a windfall and frankly,
I cannot see the need for such high costs and/or fees.
For the AACC-CAP program, a training workshop for 62
inspectors was held for 3-1/2 days (December 5-8, 1987) in
St. Louis. The inspector candidates were toxIco1ogists,
clinical chemists and clinical pathologists from throughout
the nation, 1 can safely state that many of the more
prominent experts recognized in forensic toxicology were in
attendance. While their time was voluntary, the enthusiasm
and participation was high and intense. These laboratory
scientists believe and want to have a strict accreditation
program in place to insure the public that urine drug tests
are accurate and reliable.
Many stated after completing the training workshop that the
AACC-CAP program was identical in principle and scope to the
original NIDA guidelines spelled out in the August 14, 1987
Federal Register notice (Vol. 52, No. 157, pgs. 30638-30652).
Several now intend to write their congressional
representatives expressing concern about NIDA spending a
million dollars for what purpose?
Even more fascinating fiscal data is the NIDA inspector
training program, to be conducted by its contractor RTI
(Research Triangle Institute). The contractor has contacted
most of the same individuals who participated in the AACC-CAP
training program. In the RTI solicitation they are offering
those individuals a $200 per day stipend plus expenses to
attend a four day workshop in February in San Diego. That
location is clearly a nice location for a winter meeting.
From all appearances they are literally stealing away persons
already trained in an identical program. No question that the
federal government has the power of the purse and regulatory
base to knock out a well-established experienced non-profit
accrediting organization. I think it is wrong, improper and
almost dishonest. Remember that NIDA and RTI have never
operated, coordinated or administered any laboratory
accreditation program.
In summary what NIDA has done:
1. Refused to recognize a Iong-estabI 1 shed laboratory
accred1 tating organization.
2. Denied that the voluntary participation by the forensic
toxicology community could work and be effective.
3. Has limited the Inspection process to 50 laboratories
when there are obviously at least 2-3 times that number
desireous of seeking accreditation and thereby creating
an obvious lawsuit for the restraint of trade.
4. Has established unrealistic fees most of which are
subsidized by a federal grant.
5. Has deliberately attempted to destroy a well-established
respected voluntary professional accrediting program.
6. NIDA and RTI have no experience in operating any form of
a laboratory accreditation program.
In conclusion, is the way a government agency should
function? To bypass and not to utilize an experienced
laboratory accrediting organization with no cost to
government seems simply irresponsible.
^ISSOCI/^GD
MTH010GISI5
WBOMOieS
4230 South Burnhara Avenue
Suite 250
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-5412
Senator Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
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MTHODGISIS
MBOMTOWGS
4230 South Bumham Avenue
Suite 250
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-5412
(702) 733-7866
December 1 7 , 1987
Senator Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Hecht:
CluiKal Pathc'lcify
Anatomic fttNntojy
ForensK Tcaict>iDf>
Prektdaii
J^n P SdrawQ
DirecDT
Kaniy B. SokTw^. M D
AsMKiaie Bithok>p>&
Robert R. Belliveau. M D
Hiome J BuUer. M D
AnurKiactor) S. Yballe. M D
Dnvtd A. Mulkey. M 0
AIko R. Anes. M D
W. Hoffman, M D
)ean E. McCu&ker. M D
Dank I P. Molden, M D
UMmh Han«. M D.
James M. SrnaU. M.D.. n D
Carol A. vin der Haneii*Algier, M D.
Sckndfic Saffr
Bonrn M. Cometi, A O.
John E. Hian. Pb.D.
Chief Tbchnolofsi.
Jo Aoae EdMrds. MX (ASC?>
Today, I received two applications from the contractor to the
National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for their National
Laboratory Certification program. One form was an application
to apply for the certification program, the other was asking
if I would participate as an inspector for that program.
Portions of both of these applications have given roe a
mixture of anger, frustration, and disappointment.
In early November, I met with you and your staff discussing
my concerns on the approach of NIDA in developing a national
laboratory accreditation for laboratories performing urine
drug testing in the workplace. This certification ostensively
is only to serve federal agencies testing their civilian
employees. But it is obvious that this certification will
become a national standard.
During my visit, Craig Simmons of your staff discussed with
me this question in more detail. Furthermore I forwarded to
Mr. Simmons additional materials on past communications and
documents between NIDA and AACC-CAP.
I admit that I have a special interest in these questions. As
both a forensic toxicologist and as the commissioner for
forensic laboratory accreditation for the College of American
Pathologists (CAP), I believe that a voluntary accreditation
system which CAP has had in place for 27 years deserves
better consideration by NIDA than has been evidenced over the
last six months.
1 am enclosing my more detailed comments why 1 have become
angered by what NIDA proposes in their certification process.
Why should the federal government spend about a million
dollars for an un-needed program? The laboratory community
(particularly the forensic laboratory community) Is concerned
about the direction of the NIDA program. Nany strongly
believe that the program is or will be directed by the
mi 1itary mode 1.
Nevada Stale Medical Laboratory License No. 4
Title XIX Vendor No. 27-02240
CAP No. 89109-001
DEPT. OF H.E.W, S.S A. NO 29-8013
I hope that you can use your office to at least have NIDA sit
down and discuss with AACC-CAP to grant equivalency for these
two identical programs. Thank you for assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Thorne J. Butler, M.D.
cc Mr. Craig E. Simmons
Copy to Las Vegas office
A FURTHER STATEMENT ON THE NIDA NATIONAL LABORATORY
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.
SUBMITTED BY THORNE J. BUTLER, M.D.
I have a mixture of anger, disappointment and frustration by
the actions taken by NIDA in their now being established
national laboratory certification program.
The need for proper accreditation of laboratories performing
urine drug testing in the workplace has become increasingly
apparent. The Presidential directive for the testing for the
federal civilian workforce, ever increasing challenges to the
reliability and accuracy of such urine testing and published
papers spelling out the criteria for what constitutes legally
defendable tests have mandated the need for proper
accreditation of these drug testing laboratories. The College
of American Pathologists (CAP) with 27 years of experience In
laboratory evaluation inspection and accreditation for ibore
than 4,000 medical laboratories worldwide in more than 52
different analytical disciplines decided to establish a
forensic urine drug testing accreditation program to fulfill
this public need. The program is being added to the present
toxicology proficiency inspection programs entitled; Advanced
Toxicology, Urine Toxicology, Blood Alcohol, and Blood Lead
subscribed to by some 1,000 laboratories. The CAP has had
regulatory experience since the blood lead program is used as
a regulatory basis for accrediting those laboratories
permitted to analyze samples in the OSHA surveillance
programs.
Taking guidence from the NIDA guidelines established by an
advisory committtee of well-known prominent foensic
toxiCO Iogists, the CAP in concert with the American
Association of Clinical Chemists ((AACC) has established a
detailed stringent accreditation program.
That program was in place by April 1987 and submitted to NIDA
for their review and comment. The AACC-CAP did not bid on the
NIDA RFP for the initial certification program for several
reasons: the primary being, that the subsidy would be limited
to only 50 laboratories. By August 1987 announcements were
widely distributed nationally to the laboratorty community
announcing the availability of this new program. By October
143 laboratories signed up for the program. (Obviously the 50
laboratory limit established by NIDA was ill-based.) On
November 2, each participant laboratory received the first of
four open blind proficiency samples requiring analysis. The
results from that first set have been analyzed, graded and
results sent to participating laboratories. The participants
in this program received their second sample set on December
3 and will receive the subsequent two sets on January 3 and
February 2, 1988.
The fee charged the laboratories for the application and
samples was $540.00. Furthermore, the applying laboratories
received a copy of the checklist spelling out the stringent
requirements to the program. If after review of those
requirements the laboratory felt that It could not meet those
standards they had two weeks to withdraw and receive a total
refund.
What has NI DA done? There application package was delivered
on December 14, 1967. Only 50 laboratories found acceptable
will be Included in the first phase of the program. But all
applicants will pay a non-refundable $300 fee. If a
laboratory is not acceptable In this first round and the
program Is reopened In the future then another $300 fee will
be required. For the three proficiency samples the laboratory
will pay $1500. For these services (application and
proficiency sample sets) the laboratories are. paying only
30% of the cost while 70% will be subsidized by the federal
government. In essence the application and the three
proficiency sets for analysis will cost $6000 per laboratory
applicant compared to the $540 charged by the AACC-CAP
program. The contractor obviously has a windfall and frankly,
1 cannot see the need for such high costs and/or fees.
For the AACC-CAP program, a training workshop for 62
inspectors was held for 3-1/2 days (December 5-8, 1987) in
St. Louis. The inspector candidates were toxico1ogists,
clinical chemists and clinical pathologists from throughout
the nation. 1 can safely state that many of the more
prominent experts recognized in forensic toxicology were in
attendance. While their time was voluntary, the enthusiasm
and participation was high and intense. These laboratory
scientists believe and want to have a strict accreditation
program in place to insure the public that urine drug tests
are accurate and reliable.
Many stated after completing the training workshop that the
AACC-CAP program was identical in principle and scope to the
original NIDA guidelines spelled out in the August 14, 1987
Federal Register notice (Vol. 52, No. 157, pgs. 30638-30652).
Several now intend to write their congressional
representatives expressing concern about NIDA spending a
million dollars for what purpose?
Even more fascinating fiscal data Is the NIDA Inspector
training program, to be conducted by Its contractor RTI
(Research Triangle Institute). The contractor has contacted
most of the same Individuals who participated in the AACC-CAP
training program. In the RTl solicitation they are offering
those individuals a $200 per day stipend plus expenses to
attend a four day workshop in February in San Diego. That
location is clearly a nice location for a winter meeting.
From all appearances they are literally stealing away persons
already trained in an identical program. No question that the
federal government has the power of the purse and regulatory
base to knock out a well-established experienced non-profit
accrediting organization. I think it is wrong, improper and
almost dishonest. Remember that NIDA and RTI have never
operated, coordinated or administered any laboratory
accreditation program.
In summary what NIDA has done:
1. Refused to recognize a long-established laboratory
accreditating organization.
2. Denied that the voluntary participation by the forensic
toxicology community could work and be effective.
3. Has limited the inspection process to 50 laboratories
when there are obviously at least 2-3 times that number
deslreous of seeking accreditation and thereby creating
an obvious lawsuit for the restraint of trade.
4. Has established unrealistic fees most of which are
subsidized by a federal grant.
5. Has deliberately attempted to destroy a well-established
respected voluntary professional accrediting program.
6. NIDA and RTl have no experience in operating any form of
a laboratory accreditation program.
In conclusion, is the way a government agency should
function? To bypass and not to utilize an experienced
laboratory accrediting organization with no cost to
government seems simply irresponsible.
THORNE J. BUTLER. M.D.
^S3Q SOUTH BURNHAM AVENUE - SUITE BSC
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 0S119
NOVEMBER 20, 1987
SENATOR CHIC HECHT
UNITED STATES SENATE
302 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
DEAR SENATOR -HeeHTT"
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MEET WITH ME ON NOVEMBER
6. 1987. CRAIG SIMMONS OF YOUR STAFF WAS VERY HELPFUL
AND ARRANGED FOR ME TO MEET WITH THE STAFF PERSON FROM
THE SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE. I AM FORWARDING TO HIM
FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS ACCREDITATION PROGRAM FOR
DRUG TESTING LABORATORIES. THIS SHOULD SUPPLY MORE IN
DEPTH INFORMATION.
I WOULD LIKE TO FURTHER SUMMARIZE TO YOU THE PROBLEM THAT
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL CHEMISTRY(AACC)AND
COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS (CAP)lS HAVING WITH THE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRUG ABUSE (NIDA) ON THE WHOLE ISSUE
OF LABORATORY ACCREDITATION. NIDA LATE IN 1985 PUBLISHED
CRITERIA FOR CERTIFICATION FOR FORENSIC URINE DRUG TESTING
LABS AND IN A LETTER, DATED JULY 1987, TO THE ABOVE LISTED
ORGANIZATIONS SAID THAT THEY HOPED THAT A PRIVATE ACCREDITING
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WOULD UNDERTAKE THIS TASK. IN
APRIL 1987 AACC/CAP BEGAN TO DEVELOP SUCH A PROGRAM BASED
ON THE NIDA GUIDELINES. THE PROGRAM WAS ADVERTISED IN
AUGUST 1987 RESULTING IN 140 LABORATORIES APPLYING FOR
ACCREDITATION. THAT INITIAL PHASE FOR ACCREDITATION
TS" NOW UNDER WAY.
NIDA GRANTED A CONTRACT TO RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
(RTI) TO BEGIN A SEPARATE ACCREDITATION PROGRAM CONTRARY
TO THEIR ORIGINAL STATEMENTS IN THE JULY LETTER. THE
RTI PROGRAM WHICH HAS JUST BEEN ADVERTISED REQUIRES EACH
LABORATORY TO SUBMIT A $300.00 DEPOSIT. RTI WILL THEN
SELECT (CRITIERIA NOT SPELLED OUT OR DELINEATED) 50 LABORATORIES
TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR PROGRAM. FURTHERMORE, THEY INFORMED
THE LABORATORIES THAT THEY MUST BE PREPARED TO PAY AN
ADDITIONAL $5200.00 IN INSPECTION FEES IF THEY ARE SO
SELECTED FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE ACCREDITING PROCESS.
CONTRARILY, THE AACC/CAP PROGRAM WHICH WAS ADVERTISED
IN AUGUST 1987 SPELLED OUT ALL THE FACTORS REQUIRED TO
PARTICIPATE INCLUDING THE FEES. BASED ON THAT INFORMATION
140 LABORATORIES DID SIGN UP. THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY ANYWHERE
FROM $1500.00 TO $3000.00 DEPENDING UPON LABORATORY SIZE,
FOR THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS.
ADDITIONALLY, THE NIDA PROGRAM IS BEING SUBSIDIZED BY
HUMAN AND HEALTH SERVICES FOR $900,000.00: THE ACTUAL
ACCREDITATION COST PER LABORATORY IS $15,000.00. THE
AACC/CAP PROGRAM IS SELF FUNDING AND IS SUPPORTED BY FEES
OBTAINED FROM THE LABORATORIES AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, BY
THE VOLUNTEER PARTICIPATION OF FORENSIC TOXICOLOGISTS
AS EVALUATORS AND INSPECTORS OF THOSE LABORATORIES. FRANKLY,
I BELIEVE THAT THE NIDA APPROACH IS CONTRARY TO THE CURRENT
POLICY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHICH ENCOURAGES PRIVATE
ORGANIZATIONS TO CARRY OUT REGULATORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE
FUNCTIONS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. I MUST NOTE THAT AACC/CAP
HAVE BEEN IN THE INSPECTIONS, ACCREDITATION BUSINESS FOR
MEDICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL LABORATORIES FOR OVER 27 YEARS.
CURRENTLY OVER 4000 LABORATORIES WORLDWIDE IN ALMOST
50 DIFFERENT ANALYTICAL DISCIPLINES, ARE BEING INSPECTED
AND PARTICIPATE IN UNKNOWN PROFICIENCY SURVEYS. THE AACC/CAP
ACCREDITATION OF THE DRUG TESTING LABORATORIES FOLLOWS
THE PROMULGATED NIDA GUIDELINES VIRTUALLY TO THE LETTER
AND I BELIEVE THAT IT IS EQUIVALENT IN SCOPE, INTENT,
AND REGULATORY FORCE.
ON THE OTHER HAND, NEITHER NIDA OR RTI HAS ANY EXPERIENCE
IN THE INSPECTION OR ACCREDITATION OF BIOANALYTICAL LABORATORIES.
I AM ASKING THAT YOU ENCOURAGE YOUR COLLEAGUES IN THE
COMMERCE COMMITTEE TO INDICATE THAT NIDA MUST GRANT
EQUIVALENCY TO RECOGNIZED EXPERIENCED ACCREDITING ORGANIZATIONS.
THAT ACCREDITATION IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS
AND RIGHTS OF BOTH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES WHEN URINE
DRUG TESTING IS USED TO ABATE SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE.
AGAIN, MY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND ASSISTANCE.
TJB/AK
WASHINGTON OFFICE
COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS / ALFRED s ERCOLANO, D/rector
Mr. Craig Simmons
Office of The Honorable Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Simmons:
Dr. Thorne Butler asked that our office forward the enclosed
information to you regarding our concerns with the "Danforth
Amendment" to the Air Passenger Safety Act.
Please give myself, or Norman Burch of our office, a call if
you need additional information.
1101 VERMONT AVE., N.W. / SUITE 604
WASHINGTON, D,C. 20005
PHONE: 202-371-6617
November 30, 1987
Sincerely,
Roberta L. Sorensen
Assistant Director
Congressional Relations
RLS/rp
Enclosure
cc: Thorne Butler, MD
Wniteb Senate
MEMORANDUM
THORNE J. BUTLER. M.D.
asoo SOUTH eURNHAM AVENUE - SUITE SSO
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 09119
NOV. 20, 1987
MR. CRAIG SIMMONS
LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENT
SENATOR CHIC HECHT
302 HART OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
DEAR MR. SIMMONS;
THANK YOU FOR MEETING WITH ME ON THE ACCREDITATION OF
URINE DRUG TESTING LABORATORIES. PER YOUR RECOMMENDATION
I MET WITH THE STAFF OF THE SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE
( MISS HALL AND MR. HOLLEYMAN). I HAVE ENCLOSED SEVERAL
DOCUMENTS WHICH SHOULD ASSIST IN EXPLAINING WHY I BELIEVE
THAT NIDA NEEDS TO GRANT EQUIVALENCY TO THE AACC/CAP FORENSIC
URINE DRUG TESTING PROGRAM.
1. SEPTEMBER 14, 1987: RICHARD HAWKES TO CAP. THIS
IS A CRITIQUE BY NIDA OF AACC/CAP PROGRAM.
2. FROM CAP TO RICHARD HAWKES, THIS IS THE ANSWER TO
THE NIDA CRITIQUE.
3. CLIPPING FROM CAP TODAY REPORTING ON THE AACC/CAP
WORKSHOP ENTITLED DRUG TESTING IN THE WORKPLACE" CONDUCTED
OQOBER 1 AND 2, 1987 IN CHICAGO AND ATTENDED BY OVER
400 PARTICIPANTS.
4. PROPOSED LANGUAGE ADDITIONS TO AMENDMENT 1105 TO
SENATE BILL 1485. THIS ACT DEALS WITH URINE TESTING
OF AIRLINE EMPLOYEES , TRUCK DRIVERS, AND ETC.
I BELIEVE THAT I GAVE YOU COPIES OF THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE
WHEN I MET WITH YOU ON NOVEMBER 6, 1987. UNFORTUNATELY,
I AM DEVOID OF MORE COPIES HAVING GIVEN OUT MANY. I WILL
HAVE THE CAP OFFICE FORWARD TO YOU ADDITIONAL COPIES OF
THAT PROPOSED LANGUAGE.
5. MY COMMENTS ON THE AUGUST 14, 1987 NOTICE IN THE
FEDERAL REGISTER CONCERNING DRUG TESTING FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS PLE
CONTACT ME.
' DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service
N:::?
July 30, 1987
Dr. Robert Breckenrldge
President, College of American Pathologists
5202 Old Orchard Road
Skokie, Illinois 60077-1034
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Adminisvation
hockville MO 20857
COLLEGE OF AMERICAN '
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Dear Dr. Breckenridge:
While we were sorry your organization was not able to respond directly to
our recent RFP on accreditation of urine drug detection laboratories, we
understand the historical precedents and organizational philosophy which
lead to this decision.
We have carried out a review of your proposal using experts from the
Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, as
well as several non-government experts. The reviov was conducted with
consideration of a recent congressional mandate that requires this
Department to establish standards which "ensure the full reliability and
accuracy of drug tests."
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It must be emphasized in this response to your proposal that we feel that it
imperative to iraintain a clear distinction between urine drug testing for
^ I forensic purposes and urine drug testing for medical purposes. Clearly both
ito applications are iirportant when used appropriately. The laboratory test
i conducted for medical purposes is an essential elenent in the diagnosis and
.V ^ ^ treatment of disease but may not withstand legal scrutiny in a judicial
V dispute. For example, forensic experts have learned that a serum ethanol
measurement conducted on a trauma victim admitted to an emergency service
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Urine
"drug testing for non-medical purposes must meet forensic requirements
because of the purpose and consequences of such results.
The following is a suumary of this review.
I. Necessity for Screening and Confirmation in the Same Laboratory (CAP
proposes accreditation of laboratories engaged in screening only;
page 6 &7)
Urine drug testing includes both screening and confirmation components.
Screening, when properly conducted, separates presumed positives from
presumed negatives according to defined criteria of positivity and
negativity. For purposes of expediency, presumed negatives are assumed to
be truly negative and discarded. Presumed positives are subject to one or
more confounding features: they may be outliers; they may be difficult to
resolve from interferences; they may be subject to systematic errors in the
procedure. Thus, positive results by screening tests only, cannot stand
alone in tests run for non-medical purposes.
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Laboratories which conduct only screening tests may succumb to pressures and
report the results of screening tests to clients before confirmation, or
sell only screening tests even if a more costly confirmation procedure is
available. These possibilities should not be risked in non-medical urine
drug testing.
Further, by physically separating bo^th aspects of the process, the chain of
custody in non-medical urine drug testing is lengthened and becomes more
complex. Double-staffing and transportation of the specimens, results in
g.-eater risk of administrative error or incomplete documentation negating an
otherwise properly screened and confirmed test result. These risks are
minimized when screening and confirmation are conducted within in the same
laboratory.
This is an area which illustrates the differences between medical and
non-medical testing. Medical testing requires rapid turnaround of results
and justi "ies screening with subsequent confirmation only if medically
justified. Non-medical drug screening should not, on the other hand, be
carried out without confirmation, to preclude to the extent possible, an
unjust accusation.
It is for these reasons that we disagree with an accreditation program which
includes screening c»ily facilities.
II, Qualifications of the Scientific Director (The CAP proposal discusses
this topic [Attachment 12, page 5 and 6] suggesting alternate degree
reqt rements. No consideration is given to the certifying scientist a
pivocal and critical incividual in the urine drug testing process.
There is no question but that doctoral level individuals (M.D., Ph.D., D.
Sc., etc.) may be competent laboratory directors meeting Joint Coirmission on
Hospital Accreditation (JCAH), College of American Pathologists (CAP),
Healthcare Financing Administration (HCFA), or the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Act (CLIA) criteria. However, a competent laboratory director
may not possess the specific knowledge and necessary skills to meet the
criteria for scientific director of urine drug testing. A doctoral degree
denotes advanced training in a broad discipline of some type but does not in
itself constitute documentable evidence that the director possesses the
necessary training and experience to direct forensic, urine drug testing.
This must include theory and practice in the operation of the various
analytical tools applied to drug detection in urine, the appropriate
applicc '"on of QA/QC to urine drug testing, the pharmacokinetics and
pharmacoMyn-mics of drugs, particularly drugs of abuse, standards for
evidence handling, requirements of court testimony, qualifications to serve
as an exper- witness, and others. This specialized training takes
precedence over the degree itself in forensic applications.
It is not clear how this competence is to be demonstrated, although
Attachment 12, page 5 may provide the basis of a workable plan.
The NIDA standards do require academic training in research as represented
by a Ph.D. degree (or its equivalent in experience) because research
training in the biological and physical sciences has direct applicability in
the scientific coordination of a forensic drug testing facility.
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In addition to the scientific dfrecter, It is the WDA view that the
position of certifying scientist must be carefully described and included in
any laboratory accreditation program.
Ill, Frequency of Inspections (CAP proposes an annual inspection).
CAP and JCAH inspections occur sufficiently infrequently that laboratory
performance may lapse until preparation for the next inspection is
required. Military urine drug testing laboratories conduct four or more
inspections annually to naintain optimal performance. Two inspections each
year as recoirmended by NIDA was a compromise.
Probably the number of inspections each year can be decreased provided a
mechanism is established to assure confonieticn to accreditation standards
at all times, such as is described in Attachment 12, page 11. It should be
clear that inspectors will be required to check QC/QA, chain of custody and
personnel documentation in random style for multiple time points between
inspections.
Although the inspectors are to be selected on the basis of experience and
then trained (pages 7 and 10), specific qualifications and the nature of the
training are not described. At the least, inspectors should meet the
qualifications of the scientific director of the laboratory.
„ It Is understood that inspectors will volunteer their services with
'"Mreimbursement only for their expenses. Mary qualified indlvi jals work for
lorganizations which ray not permit employees to engage in this activity,
•thereby limiting the pool of qualified inspectors. Further, when
laboratories become "decertified" inspectors ray be required to contribute
additional time and effort to follow-up activities resulting from grievance
procedures or even court action. For these and other reasons, it would
appear that payment to the inspectors for their time is a serious deficiency
which will significantly impact on the problan of getting a pool of highly
qualified and objective individuals.
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lY. Proficiency Testing (CAP terminology "Surveys" pages 6 and 9).
A. Frequency
We recognize that It is not practical to meet the theoretically high number
of PT specimens necessary to adequately assess a laboratory's performance
(Galen, RS and Gambino, SR. Beyond rormalily: the predictive value and
efficiency of medical diagnoses. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1975; Griner,
PF, Mayewski, RJ, Mushlin, AI, and Greenland, P. Selection and
interpretation of diagnostic tests and procedures. Ann. Intern, (•fed. 1981;
94:553-600; Westgard, JO and Klee, GG in Tietz (ed) Textbook of Clinical
Chemistry, 1986, p 435-438). Rather, the number of PT specimens is dictated
by the number of drugs and/or meUbolites for which each laboratory must
demonstrate proficiency, together witi a large number of blank specimens.
The CAP proposal would test laboratory performance approximately once a year
for each drug; probably not a sufficient number, particularly to check
performance at high and low concentration ranges.
The use of "synthetic urines" is probably acceptable in open proficiency
testing. Hufnan urine should be used for blanks, however. It is not clear '
(page 8, "Quarterly Survey") how those survey specimens similar to current
CAP Toxicology Surveys, will be evaluated. Interference by other drugs is a*
reasonable parameter to control, but the necessity to qualitatively or
quantitatively identify interfering drugs is not stated. Twenty PT >
specimens each quarter would appear to be a minimum number to accomplish thej
goals of NIDA,
Finally, the CAP proposal does not address the problem of blind testing.
Internal blind controls should be part of any accredited laboratory's
standard procedure. External blind testing Is, a<4nittedly,^ difficult and
costly procedure to implement. The effectiveness of this aspect of external
control is without question, however. It is the WDA view that any
accreditation program should address the problems of blind proficiency
testing leaving this aspect as a viable opt on.
B. Threshold Concentrations (CAP Proposal, Attachment 7, page 1).
Drug/metabolite concentrations should reflect realistic, physiological
situations. Thus, morphine plus its glucuronide metabolite is more
realistic than morphine alone. Similarly, the ecgonine methyl ester should
probably be included in cocaine samples. -Monoacetvlmorohine roaY-Ultimately.
be apr£t£i=re<l-inetabolite-in order to-mimic heroin_use._. The choice of
anTIytesand the threshold concentrations should permit modification and
flexibil ity.
/Although methodology must be considered when selecting threshold
concentrations, methodology alone must not be the sole factor. TLC, for
example, as used in coimiercial kits, is an extremely valuable technique in a
clinical setting where a comprehensive screen may be required. It may not
I be as sensitive for some drugs of abuse as inmunoassays and therefore not as
' useful for non-medical purposes. Nothing prevents the knowledgable
laboratorian from using a larger sairple size o^HPTLC techniques to improve
sensitivity, however. Vendors should not dictate threshold concentrations.
V. Reporting Quantitative Results
It is the NIDA point of view that quantitative amounts of drug
concentrations in urine should not be reported to clients. These numbers
can rarely be interpreted with validity. However, laboratories must be
capable of quantifying confirmation test results in order to (1) Verify that
defined threshold concentrations are met; and (2) demonstrate their
proficiency in discriminating between greater than, or less th^n, threshold
concentrations, a feat requiring excellent precision. This concept is
maintained in the CAP proposal, page 8.
Many aspects of inspections, such as procedure manuals, general QC
requirements, environment, safety, etc. are more detailed here than in the
NIDA document. Other features, such as identify and concentration of
analytes in survey sanples, details relating to grievance proceoures,
training of Inspectors, etc. should be clarified.
Finally, it is important to understand the perspective with which NIDA
approaches the problem of laboratory accreditation. By a recent mandate
from Congress MDA must adopt a stance (Amendment ho. 416, Sec. 503,
Congressional Record for 6/27/87, p. H5679) more regulatory in nature than
an educational one in laboratory certification. In order to minimize the
reporting of erroneous results in non-medical urine drug testing, the slow
evolution of a accreditation program by educating laboratories is not
practical although it would be more acceptable to many clinical laboratories.
In conclusion then, there are specific aspects of the current standards
prepared by this Institute which are not met by the proposed CAP program and
which preclude this Institute from recognizing it at this time. There are,
however, many aspects of your program which should have a considerable
positive impact on laboratories engaged in urine drug screening.
As time evolves there will obviously be re-examinations of these standards
and comparisons with other approaches. We will of course be very interested
in maintaining close communication with your organization on this matter.
We thank you for submitting your proposed project for our review and look
forward to maintaining close communication with your organization in the
future. V
Chief, Research Technology Branch
Division of Preclinical Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse
cc: Dr. Thorne Butler
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Pathologists 52020LDORCHARDROAD/SKOKIE.ILUNOIS60077-1034/(312)966-5700
September 14, 1987
Richard L, Hawks, Ph.D.
Chief, Research Technology Branch
Division of.Preclinical Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
Rockville, Itt 20857
Dear Dr. Hawks:
I appreciate your comments and critique of the CAP-AACC proposal for
accreditation of Forensic Urine Drug Testing laboratories (FUOT). In response,
I have asked the CAP Toxicology Resource Committee to review and comment on
the points made by your review conmittee.
The CAP clearly recognizes the challenges involved in developing a
program to adequately address the complex Issues of certifying laboratories
engaged in forensic urine drug testing. We, also, recognize the reluctance
of your committee to confer an imprimatur of acceptance to criteria which
may differ ever so slightly from those which it has laboriously developed,
even though these aim to accanplis: the same goals. He realize that the
NIDA Standards were developed for laboratories desirous of engaging in
contractual testing for government agencies. But, we also acknowledge, as
your committee members also are aware, that in today's litigious society
these criteria will become de facto national standards. Every private sector
forensic urine drug testing laboratory will need to meet these standards in
order to withstand legal challenges. Consequently, we believe mechanisms
must be developed that provide laboratories with means to be recognized as
meeting criteria equivalent to those required for the federal programs.
In addition to meeting diverse needs, the proposed FUDT program will
also meet appropriate forensic requirements. The CAP Toxicology Resource
Committee, the majority of whom are active practicing forensic toxicologists,
understand the legal nature of urine drug testing in the work place. For this
reason, the committee has applied practical strict forensic standards at every
step in the development of this program. The vice chairman (chairman elect)
of the Committee, Or. Thorne Butler, has recently published two articles
discussing the forensic nature and forensic requirements in urine drug analysis
(Reference I). These articles specifically address this forensic requirement.
The combined resources of the CAP and the AACC can develop a program
to address this current void in meeting the needs of private sector laboratories.
The CAP and AACC's proposal represents a progressive practical
response to meeting these needs without unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer
funds.
In your review of our polnt-by-polnt responses, we know you will consider
our rationale of meeting both public and private sector needs in the development
of these programs, the specific populations that they are designed to
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serve, and the total potential impact this effort has for quality forensic
urine drug testing.
This is our response to the ccmments of your review ccfflmittee, to our
proposal. We have used the same topical and roman numeral outline as your
letter of July 31, 1987, did.
I. "Necessity for Screening and Confirmation in the Same Laboratory
[CAP proposes accreditation of laboratories engaged in screening-only;
pages 6 & 7].
Pages 6 i 7 in CAP'S 5/28/87 proposal describe the Surveys (proficiency
testing) part of the program. On page 10 of the proposal, the following
excerpt was also presented.:
"CAP will inspect both screening and full service facilities. However,
for CAP to inspect a screening facility, the screening facility must have
in effect a defined relationship with a full-service facility which has
been accredited by CAP under the Standards for Forensic Urine Drug
Testing Laboratories. Both screening and full service laboratories would
be subject to proficiency testing and accreditation requirements as
established by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation."
The CAP understands the necessity of requiring confirmation testing of
all positives for forensic purposes and has presented protocols which will
insure compliance with this concept for laboratories that are accredited under
this program. In the initial accrediting process for forensic urine drug
testing laboratories, only those laboratories that perform both screening and
confimation in the same facility will undergo the accreditation process.
However, we believe that there are a large number of competent laboratories
and facilities doing only screening procedures which are capable and will be
interested in upgrading their service to meet forensic standards. In the
future, the CAP plans to bring those facilities under the accreditation
evaluation program. As delineated in the proposal-, certified screening-only
laboratories would meet these criteria: have appropriate forensic standards
of performance; participate in proficiency Surveys; undergo annual
inspections; and have available to them an AACC-CAP accredited FUDT laboratory
with which they have a defined relationship to Insure the appropriate
performance of confirmations of positive screening results.
The NIDA requirement that all specimens for forensic urine drug testing
must be submitted to a laboratory capable of performing both screening and
confirmation testing increases the probability of increased logistical
problems and delays for employers, multiplies transportation costs for all
specimens, and restricts competition among competent laboratories capable of
performing screening procedures pursuant to defined forensic standards. This
HIDA requirement that all specimens would be subject to transportation to a
limited number of large laboratories which may not be reasonably accessible to
the laboratory submitting specimens poses an unreasonable hardship. Under the
CAP proposal, all specimens could be submitted to a local laboratory meeting
forensic standards for screening with only the positive samples having to be
forwarded to a larger centralized confirmation facility. As a result.
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negative samples would not be subject to the increased cost and delays
involved in transportation to a confirmation laboratory.
We believe the benefits of expediency in reporting, accessibility to the
confirmation laboratory and possible cost reductions for bulk specimen testing
outweigh the minimal inconveniences and potential risks of lengthening the
'Chain of custody for the small percentage of positive specimens that have to
be referred elsewhere. If both screening and confirmation testing were
readily available in every U.S. town and city, the NIDA approach might be
ideal; however, the CAP recognizes that this is simply not practical, in light
of the current environnent.
Your committee.suggests that "laboratories which conduct only screening
tests may succumb to pressures and report the results of screening tests to
clients before confirmation, or sell only screening tests even if a more
costly confirmation procedure is available." We recognize that this approach
is possible in either a screening-only laboratory or a laboratory capable of
performing both screening and confirmation procedures. However, under the
College program, laboratories choosing this course of action would be
ineligible for accreditation; or, if accredited, would have their
accreditation rescinded.
Ethical behavior cannot be legislated; we can only provide a forum for
recognition of facilities that wish to adhere to 'standards appropriate for the
service being peKormed and decline to award recognition to laboratories that
choose other alternatives. Limitation of the possibility of accreditation to
confirmation-^nly laboratories will not preclude Inappropriate behavior if the
Intent to brtiCh the standards prevails.
Regardless of the standards we or NIDA develop, purchasers of forensic
urine drug testing services, in their contractual relationship with the
laboratory, will ultimately exercise the discretion of whether or not to use
the different cacegories of certified laboratories. Even In the case of
private sector employers, the prerogative of choosing to use a non-certified
facility continues to exist. Education of employers about the legal necessity
for confinnation of positives and the resulting costs of failure to follow
this policy rather than placing unnecessary anti-competitive restrictions
on the ntxnber of laboratories providing quality services remains a crucial
component of any program, we believe.
In sumniary, the rationale behind the approval of screening-only
laboratories takes into account the varying approaches that would be used by
enployers for implementing drug abuse control programs. Again, we believe it
is important to remember that urine druc testing in the work place is a
forensic issuf. Here, and here alone, the tests stand on their own. Samples
screened as positive must undergo rigorous confirmation. Therefore, it is
1inperative--and CAP intends to recuire—that screening-only laboratories have
available to them an accredited laboratory (FUDT) which will perform
confirmation or. all positives. Before screening-only laboratories can be
accredited, FUDT-accred1ted laboratories must be available to them. This
requirement, in many ways, may be ultimately codified by proposed legislation
pending in Congress and in many State Legislatures.
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11. "Qualifications of the Scientific Director"
[The CAP proposal discusses this topic (attachment 12, page 5 and 6)
and suggests alternative degree requi-ements. No consideration Is
given to the certifying scientist as a pivotal and critical Individual
In the urine drug testing process.]
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From your conmittee's canments, we are unsure about NiDAJs concern with
the descriptions for definitions of alternate qualifications for the
scientific director. To us, the NIDA Guidelines outline alte^-native criteria
for the scientific director. The CAP laboratory accreditation checklist makes
a clear distinction between the scientific director and an overall laboratory
director. However, we know that in many non-medical laboratories the
scientific director and laboratory director may be one and the same person.
Our original checklist did not clearly identify the certifying scientist.
However, the revised draft of the checklist has addressed this point,
stipulating that a certifying scientist must have the same experience and
knowledge of the analytical process as the scientific director. We propose
that the scientific director have the authority to designate an appropriate
person a a certifying scientist. In smaller laboratories the certifying
scientist and scientific direct:!r will In most cases be the same Individual.
This is not a weak criterion, we believe; this individual would have to meet
the general personnel requirements as spelled out in both the NIDA Guidelines
and the CAP checklist.
For the alternative scientific director qualifications, the checklist
asks such persons to submit documentation regarding their ability to meet
criteria based upon requirements outlined in the checklist.
In sunmary, our position does not differ substantially from that of NIDA
regarding the certifying scientist or laboratory director requirements. Our
clarifications will resolve your concerns in this area, we trust.
in. "Frequency of Inspections
[CAP proposes an annual inspection]"
The CAP disagrees with the NIDA Guideline requiring multiple inspections
per year.
During the startup period of the CAP FUDT Program, two inspections (one
In the initial and one in the ongoing program) will occur in an 18 month
period. During this time, e^.ch accredited laboratory will also undergo seven
sets of proficiency sample challenges. In our opinion, this degree of
examination of the laboratory will identify deficiencies detrimental to both
employers and employees involved in urine drug testing programs.
Your committee expresses this concern: "CAP and JCAH inspections occur
sufficiently infrequently that laboratory performance may lapse until
preparation for the next inspection is required." This inference is not
correct. Scientific studies conducted by the CAP and statistical reviews by
the Centers for Disease Control Indicate performance Is adequately maintained.
Since 1969, the College has held equivalency with the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Act(CLIA), under which CAP inspections have been acctpted in lieu
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of federal Inspection. For many years, both federal inspections for non-CAP
laboratories and CAP inspections were conducted on an annual basis due to
federal requirements. After CAP conducted a study of recurrent deficiencies
over a period of several inspection cycles and submitted data to the CDC, a
waiver of the annual inspection cycle was granted in favor of biannual
inspections for laboratories that consistently demons.trated appropriate
.performance over time. We would be interested in reviewing data that
substantiates your committee'^s inference.
Your committee also notes that the "military urine drug testing
laboratories conduct four or more inspections annually to maintain optimal
performance." Although the frequent repetitive submission to review may
enhance the discipline warranted in the military establishment, this
unnecessary level of intrusion in the civilian sector simply would not be
acceptable. While acknowledging significant differences between military
and civilian laboratory populations, we believe that applying such frequency
of inspections is not warranted, not cost effective, and would be redundant in
a civilian laboratory directed by professional scientists and staffed by
career laboratorians.
As indicated in our previou? communication, the CAP believes that an
annual indepth onsite inspection, supplemented by a self evaluation using the
same checklist as used on the annual inspection, will provide sufficient
incentive for the laboratory to maintain acceptable standards of performance.
Such will allow an appropriate level of monitoring by the accrediting agency.
The standards and the checklists provided previously are more detailed
than those proposed by NIDA. Our checklists will be under constant review and
subject to annual revision by the Toxicology Resource Committee and the
Commission on Laboratory Accreditation in order to insure the consistent
provision of up to date applicable criteria for insuring compliance with the
standards.
Yi ur committee's responsi notes the lack of definition regarding the
qualifications of the Inspectors in our previous comraunlcation. As noted in
our proposal, the CAP FUOT Accreditation Program will establish a training
program for appropriate individuals to qualify them to serve as inspectors in
this program. To date, approximately 170 individuals have been solicited to
volunteer their time to this inspection program. In less than 1 month from
the solicitation, more than 70 have agreed to participate. The majority of
these Individuals are either certified by the American Board of Forensic
Toxicology or American Board of Clinical Chemistry in toxicology. The 3 1/2
day training program planned for these individuals during the first week of
December, 1987, will establish a cadre of inspectors who will apply uniform
and strict standards to the inspections of the FUOT laboratories.
As suggested in your letter— and we trust 1s apparent from the above
response— It has always been the Intention of the CAP that the inspectors
will not only b> qualified to serve as the scientific director of such a
laboratory, but that they will, in most cases, actually be serving In this
capacity. The founding philosophy and primary operating protocol of CAP
Laboratory Improvement Programs has always been "peer review" as contrasted to
the federal programs employing "professional Inspectors*.
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Your committee's letter states "It would appear that payment to the
in^oectors for their time is a serious deficiency which will significantly
imoact on the problem of getting a pool of highly qualified and objective
individuals." For twenty-five years the CAP has been operating the most
hiahlv respected inspection and accreditation program in the world using
volunteers-a program which has served and continues to serve as the model
from which much of the federal and state regulatory programs have been
derived. We currently perform an average of 6 inspections per day, every work
dav of the year, using qualified volunteer resources. While there are those
who would prefer to receive consultant fees— some exorbitant—for this type
of service instead of participating in a professional peer review program, we
have always been able to attract ccsnpetent volunteers willing to contribute
their time and expertise .for this mutually beneficial and worthy program.
We recognize the highly specialized nature of FUOT and the limited number
of soecialists in this area; based on the response to our initial solicitation
of inspectors, however, we do not agree with your committee's assumption that
oavment beyond expense reimbursement is necessary to obtain a pool of highly
qualified and objective individuals as part of the CAP programs. Our
experience of 25 years indicates such is simply not correct.
IV. "Proficiency Testing ^ ^
[CAP Terminology 'Surveys' pages 6 and 9J
•A. Frequency"
We believe that there will be continuing discussion about what is an
adeauate or theoretically adequate number of challenges in open Surveys, In
fact during the first week of September, the CAP hosted a national three day
conference wi*h 47 representatives from government, industry and the
orofessions aodressing "The Evaluation of Proficiency Testing Results for
Quantitative Methods in Relation to Clinical Usefulness". As the proceedings
from this conference note, proficiency testing should not be considered the
sole criterion for monitoring laboratory performance. However, recognizing
the limitations of proficiency testing, the CAP believes reviews based on
statistical evaluation of its data by the CDC Indicates that, except for
onslte inspection, the current program of quarterly Surveys is as appropriate
a mechanism as any available to identify difficulties within a particular
laboratory.
We do not understand the derivation of this statement of your review
conioittee: "The CAP proposal would test laboratory performance approximately
once a year for each drug; probably not a sufficient nunber, particularly to
check performance at high and lew concentration ranges." On page 7 of our
orlQinal submission we specified the following: "10 specimens each shipment,
five of which will be synthetic urines spiked with one or more of the dnjgs
on NIDA's list. The remaining five (three synthetic and two human) will be
blank." In attachments 7 and 10 of this proposal sample specifications noted
inclusion of each of the drugs on NIDA's list once or more each shipment.
Although final specifications have changed somewhat from our initial
considerations, we have never intended to imply to NIOA that each drug would
be tested with a frequency of once per year.
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As to the use of synthetic and human urines, we are in agreement with
your cofnnittee. Each of the Surveys sets in the initiating phase will conta'n
a mixture of both synthetic and human urines. Only human urines will be usee
in the blanks.
We were a little confused about the requirement of stating 20 P.T.
samples each quarter as a minimum number to accomplish the goals of NIDA. The
'original NIOA Guidelines and the' RFP suggested a total of only 60 P.T. samplss
per year, out your committee's comment would require a total of 80 per year.
Specifying an adequate number of challenges is difficult. To resolve this,
the CAP plans to rely on its previous experience in performing wide numbers of
Surveys for a large number of different biological and analytical procedures.
The question of blind testing was addressed briefly in our proposal. We
agree that external blind testing is at best difficult and almost impossible
to implement with a large scale program. The checklist for the inspectors
specifically addresses the need for each laboratory to have its own internal
blind proficiency program. As noted in our meeting last December, the CAP is
still interested in reviewing NIOA concepts about how an external blind
program could be successfully operated on a national basis.
IV-B, "Threshold Concentrations
[CAP Proposal, Attachment 7, page 1]."
The threshold concentrations in the proposed ciallenges were based on the
information supplied in the NIOA guidelines for proficiency surveys. It was
our understanding that, for each group of analytes, the minimum concentration
for an indivioual or the sua of various metabolites would be as listed.
For the open proficiency survey, the concentrations used were derived
from the NIOA Guidelines and interpretations of those guidelines as previously
discussed with you.
V. "Reporting Quantitative Results"
We believe that both the client and the laboratory should have an
understanding at what quantitative cjt-off level will be used for determining
whether c* n t a confirmed sample is reported as positive. The laboratory
should ha e a quantitative confirmation procedure that would determine a
positive result has a concentration greater than the agreed upon cut-off. The
inspection checklist addresses this point.
The open proficiency Survey in the FUDT program will require quantitative
data. Both the qualitative and quantitative results will be graded and a
passing score will be necessary to maintain certification.
SUMMARY"
The CAP Toxicology Resource Committee believes that the proposed FUDT
program closely follows the general concepts and outlines proposed by NIDA.
Variations fron NIDA's expeC-ations for a program are minor in nature.
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Differences are based on the CAP' S experience in inspecting more than 3800
laboratories throughout the world.
Concerns have been expressed that this program would not have the
administrative clout to decertify laboratories. In our view, this new program
is primarily regulatory-in nature rather than proficiency in character.
Therefore, laboratories not meeting the standards as spelled out in the
program will, of necessity, undergo decertification. The CAP has a history of
decertifying laboratories in its medical laboratory program when noncompliance
with the standards was evident.
To establish the equivalency relationship with CLIA '67, the Commission
on Laboratory Accreditation has an "Interstate Cofrraissicner." This
position, for twenty years, has been responsible for monitoring compliance of
those CLIA interstate laboratories desirous of CAP accreditation in lieu of
federal Inspection. On a number of occasions, the CAP has notified particular
laboratories that they were not in compliance and that the CAP was advising
the Department of Health and Human Services of their status. Similar
protocols could be discussed with NIDA if some equivalency relationship was
deemed possible.
Of course, decertification does require appropriate administrative appeal
procedure, which are in place (CAP Denial and App.-a1 Policies—Attachment 1).
We appreciate ycur thoughtful examination jf our program proposal. We
trust that our answers to your committee's comments acre clearly delineate our
pr )grwi. In essence, our program Is de-^igned, as previously stated, to be a
regulatory program where laboratories w1.• be reciired to meet strict forensic
standards of performance when assaying urine samples obtained in the work
place environment.
We are available and very willing to meet with you and your staff to
further discuss this program. Through continuing pommunication we can
address areas that, perhaps, still remain unclear or unresolved. A few hours
In a face-to-face meeting, sharing documentation, and explanation of policies
and operational protocols can create understanding and mutual agreement that
can be beneficial to the common ideas we hold, a quality accreditation program
that serves the needs of laboratories ir-olved in forensic testing of drugs.
We look forward to working with NIDA in whatever manner nay be appropriate.
Sincerely,
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References:
1. Butler TJ. Challenging the Future: Urine Drug Testing, A legally
Defensible Result, Clin. Lab. Manag. Review: 1, 158-161: 1987
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2. Hoyt OW, Finnigan RE. Shults TF, Butler'TJ. Drug Testing In the
Worii place--Are Methods Legally Defensible? JAMAj 258, 504-509: 1987
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POLICY ON APPE.U. OF ACCREDITATION
DLNIALS TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
A laboratory which has bean denied accreditation after reconsideration
by the Coomission on Laboratory Accreditation aay appeal the denial to the
Board of Governors. An appeal sust be filed within sixty days after receipt
by the laboratory of notification that the Coomission has denied its request
the College. The appeal must contain a stateaent of why the laboratory
believes that denial of accreditation was improper. An appeal shall not
stay the denial of accreditation.
The appeal shall be considered by a three-person committee of the Board
appointed by the President. This committee may review any materials it
deems pertinent. If the committee determines that deficiencies in the
laboratory are sufficient to deny accreditation, that due process has been
given, and that there.is no other reason to alter the decision of the
Commission, it shall affirm the denial of accreditation. Otherwise, it
shall forward the matter to the full Board for a determination of whether
denial was proper. It shall notify the laboratory of its decision in writing.
If the three—person committee forwards the natter to the Board, the
appeal shall be considered at the next meeting of the Board occurring
more than two weeks after the decision of the committee. The Board may
invite the director of the laboratory to make a presentation. At the
meeting, it shall determine whether to affirm or reverse the denial of
accreditation.
for reconsideration and must be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of
Vlthin two weeks after the oweting* the Board shall notify the
laboratory and the Chairman of the Commission of its decision and shall
briefly set forth the reason for that decision. If the Board reverses the
denial of accreditation, the Commission shall follov up with action
appropriate in light of the Board's decision. A decision by the threeperson
committee to afflra denial of accreditation or a decision by the
Board to affirm or reverse a denial of accreditation shall constitute
the final decision of the College of American Pathologists on the
matter.
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P/1THOLOGiS15
AnaiomK P«ihoJoay - Tohft P. Schwar:*
Clinical Palholoey Prcsideni:
John i
ForfnsK Palholruy
Dirccior
W. Howard Holtman. M.O.
A^ociat« Pa(ho(o(t>sts.
Roberc P. BeHiveau. M O
Thorr^e |, Butfcr, M.O
Henrv A Solcwav, M.O
4230 South Burnham Avenue Aflur)ciaeion S Yballe. M O.
Suite 250 * David A. Mulkev, M.D
Us Vegas, Nevada 89109 D.
(7021 733-786^ Damd P Molden. M.D
LeMinK Haric, M.D.
OCTOBER 8, 1987 Scwnitlic SlaO:
Bonica M. Cor«eit. Ph n
- , , - John i. HUlt, Ph.D. OFFICE OF WORKPLACE INITIATIVES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE IOAN«ED"LWT!T^^N
5600 FISHERS LANE ROOM LOA-53
ROCKVILLE, MD 20857
DEAR SIR:
ENCLOSED ARE MY COMMENTS ON THE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE AUGUST
14, 1987 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ENTITLED
"SCIENTIFIC AND TECHINICAL GUIDELINES FOR FEDERAL DRUG TESTING
PROGRAM; STANDARDS FOR CERTIFICATION OF LABORATORIES ENGAGED
IN URINE DRUG TESTING FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES; NOTICE OF PROPOSED
GUIDELINES".
OUR LABORATORY HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN FORENSIC DRUG TESTING
IN THE WORKPLACE FOR OVER THREE YEARS. THE INVESTMENT IN FACILITIES,
EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL EXCEEDS $750,000.00. OUR DAILY WORKLOAD
RANGES FROM 100-150 SAMPLES PER DAY. SEVERAL OF OUR CLIENTS
ARE CONTRACTORS TO BOTH DOE AND DOT. WE HAVE WORKED CLOSELY
WITH THOSE AND OTHER CLIENTS IN DEVELOPING FORENSIC URINE DRUG
TESTING PROGRAMS FOR THE CONTROL OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE ON THE JOB.
EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS HAS BEEN CUSTOMIZED TO SATISFY AND/OR
ATTACK UNIQUE PROBLEMS FACED BY THAIT EMPLOYER.
As YOU WILL NOTE THE PROPOSED GUIDELINES HAVE GENERATED CONSIDERABLE
CONCERN. THE IMPRESSION IS THAT WHEN THIS NOTICE IS IMPLEMENTED
ONLY A FEW LARGE LABORATORIES IN THE UNITED STATES WILL ULTIMATELY
BE AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM THIS FORM OF TESTING. THAT PROBLEM
NOT ONLY CONCERNS THIS LABORATORY BUT MANY OF OUR CLIENTS WITH
WHOM CAREFULLY ESTABLISHED CRITERIA HAS RESULTED IN NO ADVERSE
DECISIONS IN EITHER ARBITRATION OR JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
I ASK THAT YOU CAREFULLY CONSIDER MY RECOMMENDATIONS.
SINCERELY YOURS,
THORNE J. BUTLER M.D. DABFT
TJB/AK
Nevada State Medical Laboratorv License No. 4
Title XIX Vendor No. 274D2240
CAP No. 891094X14
DEPT. OF H.E.W. S.S.A. NO. 29-8013
RESPONSE TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL GUIDELINES FOR FEDERAL
DRUG TESTING PROGRAMS; STANDARDS FOR CERTIFICATION OF
LABORATORIES ENGAGED IN URINE DRUG TESTING FOR FECfERAL
AGENCIES
A. General Comments
Uhile the proposed guidelines are directed towards federal
agencies and their civilian employees; it should be
emphasized that these guidelines and standards of
certification will obviously become national standards of
performance. The reason this will occur'is that urine drug
testing in the workplace is a forensic or legal issue. If
these guidelines are held to represent the highest state of
the art then in the legal arena they will become the
necessary and accepted standards.
An important but clearly unanswered question is whether or
not these proposed guidelines will apply only to federal
agencies or whether contractors to federal agencies will also
be required to meet these guidelines.
For those of us who have been Involved with the military drug
testing program, it is apparent that these guidelines have
been heavily influenced by that program.
The military policy is primarily a policing or enforcement
program to allegedly control drug use. In the civilian arena,
I believe that urine drug testing in the workplace has the
primary purpose to detect those individuals who have a
problem with the drug or use the drug at work. Civilian
employers are interested in having productive, effective,
prompt and reliable employees who have minimal accidents on
the Job and have a minimal impact upon healthcare costs. In
my experience most civilian employers are not interested in a
police or law enforcement function and only want to find
those employees who do not meet standards of performance, or
have any Increased accident risk, or have a heavy impact upon
healthcare costs because of substance abuse.
It is my opinion in review of this notice that the overall
thrust is to have a policing or law enforcement impact rather
than one to insure the presence of well performing employees.
My other comments are partially based upon this opinion.
B. Collection of Samples
The somewhat elaborate procedure spelled out is based on the
inability to have witnessed urine collection. The
Presidential directive of September 15, 1986 specifically
forbade witnessed urine collections.
ProbJem with this collection procedure. There
"^enu! to federal departments ;ho ar"
currently doing urine drug testing in the workplace Thev
conlctir"? " Witnessed connection whe^ ;;opL?J
conducted is a simple way of avoiding the problems of
substitution or alteration of urine samples. Since these
guidelines apparently will apply to those contractors Is
shou?d°'^h notices from the various departments, there
should be some consideration for permissibn of using such a
procedure. From a forensic toxicology view, it is rnflni^ely
easier to defend challenges when sam^es haCe been coMecte^
by an appropriate witnessed technique.
C. Laboratory Analysis Procedures
a. Confirmatory Tests
The stringent requirements for the confirmation test is that
that CCMI T ts acceptable. There is little doubt
in L n f an efficient and reliable confirmation procedure
of conM t? also can be shown that other methods
I stated before documented are of equal strength. As
f before in my general comments these regulations will
undoubtly become national standards. 1 think fo den^ othi^
on?J""Tn Jhe atood the test of time not
woild ie anerrpr? but a, iu the oourtrcoa
b. Cutoff Concentrations
The initial test and confirmation test list various cutoff
level concentrations. These concentrations bring me back to
tLt5"^ concerning the purpose of urine drug
testing in the workplace.
Is it one to assure effective, productive, reliable employees
initlfi ^ policing action? The levels in the
initial test for cocaine metabolites, opiates and
phencyclidine (PCP) are directed more towards a policing
function rather than one of detecting Individuals who are
having a problem or have chronic use of the drugs. The
confirmation cutoff values for cocaine metabolites, opiates.
1 amphetamines have the same Interpretation in my
opinion. The initial (screening) concentration of 25 ng/ral
or PCP is below the sensitivity for a widely used
immunoassay method (EMIT). A concentration of 100 ng/ml seems
Indf J consistent with concentrations found in
individuals abusing PCP. m
The proposed cutoffs for morphine will cause endless problems
cCtd^r®? IhSestlons. The military program has elevated
herolTis" morphine to 4000 ng/ml to detect suspect
The proposed cutoff levels for both the Initial test .and
confirmation test as outlined in section Laboratory Analysis
Procedures: Initial Test and Confirmation Test are in
conflict with the concentrations listed in Appendix A
Proficiency Test Program under section Standards for
Certification for Laboratories Engaged Urine Drug Testing for
Federal Agencies. If the requirements proposed under the HHS
Scientific and Technical Guidelines are to be the cutoff
concentration which laboratories must attain when screening
samples then certainly the proficiency samples should also
contain concentration near those cutoff. levels. For most
analytes except cannabinoids the differences between the
composition of samples in the proficiency test program are
two to six times greater than those proposed in the actual
program. 1 believe that those proposed in the proficiency
test program are more consistent with a policy interested in
detecting individuals either abusing or dependent upon drugs.
I would like to emphasize again that the HHS initial and
confirmatory test cutoff levels are more appropriate for a
policing program.
One must realize that as the cutoff levels are lowered there
will be a greater chance for false-positives and considerably
more controversy over the interpretation of confirmation
results. Many laboratories will begin to use one or two mass
spectra ions when dealing with low cutoffs for confirmations.
Interpretation of the validity of these spectra will become
much more argumentative. Furthermore as one drops the cutoff
levels the costs of obtaining reliable results become more
and more expensive.
c. Laboratory Personnel
There is some conflict with this definition of a scientific
director compared to that which is spelled out in the NIDA
guidelines for the forensic urine drug testing laboratory
certification. They are also at variance with the definition
of the scientific director in the forensic urine drug testing
accreditation program which will go into place on November 1,
1987 by the College of American Pathologists and the American
Association of Clinical Chemists (CAP/AACC).
D. Quality Assurance and Quality Control
a. External Laboratory Quality Control Procedures
The requirement for an analysis of a 1000 samples prior to
the laboratory receiving routine unknown samples is unduly
restrictive. First, where will the 1000 samples come from and
who will verify to the content of those samples?
Second. if there is a discrepancy will there be an
administrative procedure allowing a remedy to appropriately
referee a disagreement between the laboratory and those
submitted quality control samples? If there is not and the
laboratory is penalized by being unable to perform analyses
the program is open to a wide variety of legal challenges.
b. Interim External Laboratory Quality • Control
Procedures
The program delineates that agency can Inspect the laboratory
any time. The question Is who wilt be the inspector and what
will be the criteria used for appointing those inspectors. It
seems unlikely that any of the federal agencies would have on
hand qualified Individuals who understand forensic urine drug
testing.
c. Appendix B: Laboratory Inspection
The guidelines state that each Inspection team will consist
of three inspectors. Uhy? A 1aboratory'performing up to 100
samples a day can easily be inspected by one qualified
Inspector. The AACC/CAP program has established that the
number of inspectors required should be directed by the size
of the laboratory; I.e., the number of specimens processed
per day.
Ei Standards for Certification of Laboratories Engaged in
Urine Drug Testing for Federal Agencies
This entire section Is In essence lifted from the NIDA
guidelines. While the section repeatedly refers to a DHHS
recognized certification program, at the moment there Is no
such program nor have any laboratories been certified by this
form of certification.
a. Sections VII-IX Addresses Certification,
Revocation, Suspension, Opportunity for Review and
Recer11 fIcat1 on
The criteria for summary decertification are only In broad
nonspecific terms. While suspension will be immediate, the
review process cannot even begin for up to 30 days. That
seems unfair and fails to meet reasonable standards of due
process.
An most importantly, who will be the personnel making the
decisions? What w.11 1 be their credentials and laboratory
experience? This entire section Is very disturbing because it
is possible if not probable that the officials making these
decision will not be experienced forensic toxico1og1sts.
b. Development of Certification Programs by College of
American Pathologists and American Association of
Clinical Chemists
The College of American Pathologists and the American
Association of Clinical Chemists (CAP/AACC) have a program
underway developing a cadre of accredited laboratories by
March 1986. This program follows the NIDA guidelines very
closely and for the most part is identical to the standards
for laboratory certification as published by NIDA.
Furthermore this program is developing a group of inspectors
who have volunteered there time and have certification by the
American Board of Forensic Toxico1ogists. These inspectors
will undergo a three and a half day training program.
The CAP/AACC believe that this is a strong stringent program
which . will closely regulate accredited laboratories
performing forensic urine drug testing.
Summary
In summary, the proposed guidelines being suggested as
standards for urine drug testing in the 'workp1 ace have many
excellent points but at the moment would appear premature
primarily because certified laboratories are not yet in
place. Such a certification program based on NIDA guidelines
is soon to go into effect.
There are questions about the intent of the program, the
selection of cutoff data and requirements for external
laboratory quality control procedures. The inspection
criteria, qualification of inspectors, certification
procedures, revocation and recertificat ion procedures are of
critical import to the laboratory community.
It appears that there has been pressure to institute a
program based upon the military random testing program.
Minimal thought has been given to evaluate the impact of
that type of program on the federal civilian workforce and
even less upon federal contractors.
Recommendations
All of these matters have great impact upon not only the
agencies or institutions requesting testing but also upon
Individuals being tested. I would recommend that the date of
implementation be postponed and that appropriate conferences
be developed for discussion of the various matters which are
of considerable concern to both employers, their employees
and the 1aboratory jsommunity.
In the last two to three weeks, our laboratory has received
communications from clients utilizing drug testing in the
workplace substance abuse control programs expressing concern
that the guidelines in this notice are now required national
standards. Laboratorians attending two national meetings:
i> Laboratory and Drug Testing: A Practioal Guide to
Survival - Oct. 1 and 2, Chicago, Illinois
2) Striking the Right Notes. 5th Annual Institute on
Clinical Laboratory Policy, Sept. 30-0ct. 2,
Uashington, D.C.
are just now alert to this notice and its impact upon the
nations laboratories. For the above reasons, the comment
period should be extended by at least another 60 days to
permit all those potentially Impacted by this notice to have
an adequate opportunity to respond.
H^SSOCMTQ)
MTHOOGISfS
WBOMTORie
Thome J. Butler, M.D. DABFT
PATHOLOGIST, FORENSIC
TOXICOLOGIST
4230 S. Burnham Avenue
Suite 250
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
(702) 733-7866
DRAFT
November 5, 1987
Honorable John C. Danforth
United States Senate
497 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Danforth?
The College of American Pathologists wishes to commend you
for your sponsorship of an amendment (#1105) to S. 1485, a bill
to amend Title VI of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, Section
202 of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 and Section 12020
of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Act of 1986.
The College is a national medical specialty society representing
more than 10,000 physicians certified by the American
Board of Pathology. Members of the College practice their
specialty in hospitals, independent laboratories, medical schools
and medical examiner/coroner offices.
The College has a Laboratory Accreditation Program which
accredits more than 4,000 hospitals and independent laboratories.
Since 1967 the College's program has been deemed to be equivalent
to Federal standards for laboratories engaged in interstate
commerce.
We agree with you that we must utilize every effort to
eliminate the abuse of alcohol and the use of illegal drugs by
operators of air craft, railroads, buses and trucks for the
protection of our citizens utilizing these forms of transportation.
We are generally supportive of the intent of the changes
which your amendment would achieve. However, we wish to point
out an area of major concern to us and other individuals and
organizations involved in the testing of specimens to detect
alcohol and/or drugs of abuse.
The provision which concerns us is the requirement that the
Administrator and/or the Secretary are required to use the
Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) technical and
scientific guidelines dated February 13, 1987 in determining the
eligibility of a laboratory to perform tests for the detection of
alcohol or illegal drugs.
Honorable John C. Danforth
November 5, 1987
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The February 13 guidelines have been published in the
Federal Register (Vol. 52, #157), August 14, 1987 with a 60-day
period for comment. The College submitted comments (attached) on
these guidelines in which we expressed concern with certain
requirements.
It is the view of the College that the standards proposed by
the DHHS are overly stringent and would severly limit the number
of qualified laboratories which could provide testing for drugs
of abuse.
An example of this is the requirement that in order for a
laboratory to be accredited to test for drugs of abuse it would
be required to have the capability of performing both screening
and confirmatory tests on site. This provision alone will
eliminate from the market place hundreds of qualified laboratories
which are now performing screening tests and referring
specimens requiring a confirmatory test to laboratories which
have the sophisticated equipment and personnel to perform
confirmatory tests. The College and other scientific organizations
have raised objection to this requirement.
The College in conjunction with the American Association of
Clinical Chemists is implementing an accreditation program
designed specifically for laboratories engaged in testing for
drugs of abuse. This accreditation program closely parallels the
DHHS/NIDA guidelines. This program has been offered to DHHS/NIDA
as an alternative to Federal regulations. To date, DHHS/NIDA has
not seen fit to accept this program.
We would hope that you and the conferees could support a
provision in S. 1485/H.R. 3051 which would permit private nonprofit
accrediting agencies to play a role in this effort.
This could be accomplished, in our opinion by utilizing the
language of the attached amendment. Your assistance in this
matter will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
William B. Zeiler* MD
President
DRAFT
Suggested Language
Air Passenger Protection Act of 1987
Title VI, Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Sec. 613 (d) Procedures
613 (d)(2) following "mandatory guidelines", insert the
following language:
" or accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
accrediting organizations with standards which are equal to or
more stringent than the standards of the DHHS as determined by
the Secretary of DHHS."
613 (d) (4) following "tests" and before " the", insert the
following language:
" or in the case of laboratories performing screening
tests only, has an arrangement with a laboratory approved under
(d)(2) for the perfomance of confirmation tests."
1
*
DRAFT
Suggested Language
Sec. 202 of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970
I. (C)(2)(b) following "mandatory guidelines" and before
"which", insert the following language:
" or accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
accrediting organizations with standards which are equal to or
more stringent than the standards of the DHHS as determined by
the Secretary of DHHS."
II. (C)(2)(d) following "tests" and before "the", insert the
following language:
" or in the case of laboratories performing screening
tests only, has an arrangement with a laboratory approved under
(C)(2)(b) for the performance of confirmation tests."
2
DRAFT
Suggested Language
Sec. 12020 of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
(d) Procedures for Testing
(d)(2) following "mandatory guidelines" and before "which",
insert the following langauge:
" or accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
accrediting organizations with standards which are equal to or
more stringent than the standards of the DHHS as determined by
the Secretary of DHHS."
(d)(4) following "tests" and before "the", insert the following
language:
" or in the case of laboratories performing screening
tests only has an arrangement with a laboratory approved under
(d)(2) for the performance of confirmation tests."
3 November 1987
Dr. Ian McDonald
Presidential Advisor on Substance Abuse
A critical element in having an acceptable and effective substanceabuse
program in the workplace is reliable, accurate urine testing.
Both employees and employers must feel confident that testing meets
the highest possible standards of performance. That confidence will
exist when testing laboratories have met accepted forensic standards
established by an accreditation program.
As a response to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) guidelines
for accreditation of forensic urine drug testing laboratories,
the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and the College
of American Pathologists (CAP) have developed such an accreditation
program. The CAP has now almost thirty years of experience in accrediting
and inspecting thousands of laboratories in almost fifty different
disciplines of biomedical-bioanalytical measurements. In the
toxicology arena, there have been joint programs by AACC/CAP in blood
lead and blood alcohol accreditation. The Blood Lead Program is regulatory
and meets OSHA and CDC requirements.
Beginning this week, the initial phase of the Forensic Urine Drug
Testing (FUDT) Program starts with the first set of proficiency
samples being sent to 130 laboratory applicants. This initiating
phase is identical to the guidelines requested by NIDA in their RFP to
conduct the initial accreditation program.
AACC/CAP did not respond to that RFP for three reasons. One, the bid
subsidy was restricted to only fifty laboratories. Two, the accreditation
period would be conducted over eighteen months, giving the
first laboratory accredited a distinct economic and marketing advantage.
Three, the RFP failed to address the elements of an ongoing or
continuous accreditation program.
While declining to bid, the AACC/CAP did submit a detailed outline of
their accreditation program. Included is a training program (to be
conducted from December 5-8) for 45 inspectors derived from 78 volunteer
forensic toxicologists.
3 November 1987
Dr. Ian McDonald
Presidential Advisor on Substance Abuse
Page two
Since the submission of that program in April 1987, there has been
continual communication between NIDA and AACC/CAP. In my opinion,
criticism from NIDA of the AACC/CAP program has been on cosmetic matters.
A review of the enclosed documents, I believe, supports that
contention.
Having answered all questions and believing that the AACC/CAP program
meets all the requirements spelled out in both the NIDA guidelines and
in their RFP, we had hoped that NIDA would grant equivalency to the
AACC/CAP Forensic Urine Drug Testing Accreditation Program.
However, NIDA denied equivalency and then announced the award of a
contract to Research Triangle Institute for $900,000 to conduct the
phase program. As you may be aware, there has been criticism
of NIDA in this contract process (see enclosed Washington G-2
National Intelligence Report). Originally, the NIDA guideline documents
clearly stated that the agency hoped that a private organization
would implement the guidelines for accreditation. Experienced and
reputable professional organizations did just that. In the past, both
these organizations in November 1986 asked to participate on the advisory
committee who was assisting NIDA in the drafting the guidelines,
but were denied. However, the contractor's (RTI) representative was a
member of that committee. Furthermore, the subcontractor to RTI for
the inspector training is made up of former NIDA staff members.
Here we have experienced professional organizations establishing a
program based directly on NIDA guidelines, and then coupling that
program to an ongoing inspection and proficiency evaluations. That
program will cost the government nothing and has 130 laboratories
applying for accreditation. To the forensic toxicology community, the
awarded contract is clouded by apparent conflict of interest. Furthermore,
that contract is unduly expensive to both the government and
laboratories.
Enclosed are many documents including queries and answers between NIDA
and the AACC/CAP. In early October, the AACC/CAP conducted a 2-day
workshop on drug testing in the workplace for almost 400 attendees.
These organizations have demonstrated that by applying their long-term
experiences and ability to marshall resources that a program can be
developed and made operational within a short period of time.
AACC/CAP believes that their Forensic Urine Drug Testing Accreditation
Program is stringent and will assure confidence in the accredited laboratories.
The desire for AACC/CAP for equivalency in the forensic urine drug
testing laboratory accreditation is based upon sound principles, criteria
and experience. Furthermore, having a private organization or
3 November 1987
Dr. Ian McDonald
Presidential Advisor on Substance Abuse
Page two
institution to conduct such a program is within the philosophy of
minimal governmental involvement. With NIDA (a research organization)
doing the development of the criteria for accreditation and then having
the program implementation carried out by a reputable organization
appears to be the ideal approach to regulatory operations.
While the enclosed documents speak for themselves, I would gladly meet
with you to answer any questions concerning the AACC/CAP program.
Yours sincerely.
Thorne J. Butler, M.D., DABFT
Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Toxicology
Chairman, CAP Toxicology Resource Committee
Commissioner for CAP Forensic Drug Testing
TJBjldp
Enc.
WASHINGTON OFFICE
COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS / ALFRED S, ERCOLANO, D.,ec,o.
1! 01 VERMONT AVE N W - SUITE 604
WASHINGTON. D C. 20005
PHONE 202-3n.661T
November 12, 1987
Honorable John C. Danforth
United States Senate
497 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Danforth:
The College of American Pathologists wishes to commend you
for your sponsorshiii of an amendment (#1105) to S. 1485, a bill
to amend Title VI of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, Section
202 of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 and Section 12020
of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Act of 1986.
The College is a national medical specialty society representing
more than 10,000 physicians certified by the American
Board of Pathology. Members of the College practice their
specialty in hospitals, independent laboratories, medical schools
and medical examiner/coroner offices.
The College has a Laboratory Accreditation Program which
accredits more than 4,000 hospitals and independent laboratories.
Since 1967 the College's program has been deemed to be equivalent
to Federal standards for laboratories engaged in interstate
commerce.
We agree with you that we should make every effort to
eliminate the abuse of alcohol and the use of illegal drugs by
operators of aircraft, railroads, buses and trucks for the
protection of all citizens.
We are generally supportive of the intent of the changes
which your amendment would achieve. However, we wish to point
out an area of major concern to us and others involved in the
testing of specimens to detect alcohol and/or drugs of abuse.
Our concern is the requirement that the Administrator and/or
the Secretary are required to use the Department of Health and
Human Services' (DHHS) technical and scientific guidelines dated
February 13, 1987 in determining the eligibility of a laboratoryto
perform tests for the detection of alcohol or illegal drugs".
Honorable John C. Danforth
November 12", 1987
Page 2
The February 13 guidelines have been published in the
Federal Register (Vol. 52, #157), August 14, 1987 with a 60-day
period for comment. The College submitted comments (attached) on
these guidelines in which we expressed concern with certain
requirements. *
^ standards proposed by the DHHS are too
rigid and would limit drastically the number of qualified
laboratories that could provide testing for drugs of abuse.
An example of this is the requirement that for a laboratory
to be accredited to test for drugs of abuse it would be required
to have the capability of performing both screening and confirmatory
tests on site. This provision will eliminate from the
market place hundreds of qualified laboratories which are now
performing screening tests and referring specimens requiring a
confirmatory test to laboratories with the sophisticated equipment
and personnel to perform confirmatory tests. The College
and other scientific organizations have raised objection to this
requirement.
^1. conjunction with the American Association of
Clinical Chemistry is Implementing an accreditation program
designed specifically for laboratories engaged in testing for
accreditation program closely parallels the
DHHS/NIDA guidelines. This program has been offered to DHHS/NIDA
as an alternative to Federal regulations. To date, DHHS/NIDA has
not seen fit to accept this program.
We would hope that you and the conferees could support a
provision in S. 1485/H.R. 3051 which would provide flexibility
for private non-profit accrediting agencies to play a role in
this effort, at such time as the Secretary DHHS determines to be
appropriate.
This could be accomplished, in our opinion by utilizing the
language of the attached amendments. Your assistance in this
matter will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
2).
William B. Zeller, MD
President
College of American Pathologists
c >-eu tidnguage
sec. 12020 of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
(d) Procedures for Testing
"thereto", strike the remainder of the
subsection and insert the following language:
M
• • • • I accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
i organizations with standards which are equal to or
c ^ standards of the DHHS as determined bv
the secretary of DHHS, and to include standards which." ^
follclinriang"-ge=
testJ'onV^'^, laboratories performing screening
^dfm fnr arrangement with a laboratory approved unde?
(d)(2) for the performance of confirmation tests."
4
College of American Pathologists
Suggested Language
Sec. 202 of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970
foiiowing "thereto", strike the remainder of the
subsection and insert the following language:
accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
With standards which are equal to or
c standards of the DHHS as determined by
the Secretary of DHHS, and to include standards which."
II. (C)(2)(d) following "tests", strike the colon and insert the
followingg language: une
= laboratories performing screening
hi arrangement with a laboratory approved unde?
{C){2)(b) for the performance of confirmation tests."
2
College of American Pathologists
Suggested Language
Air Passenger Protection Act of 1987
Title VI, Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Sec. 613 (d) Procedures
613 (d) (2) following "thereto", strike the remainder of the
subsection and insert the following language:
accreditation programs of private not-for-profit
accrediting organizations with standards which are equal to or
® standards of the DHHS as determined by
the Secretary of DHHS, and to include standards which"
613 (d) (4) following "tests", strike the colon and insert the
following language;
".....or in the case of laboratories performing screening
r5wV» arrangement with a laboratory approved under
(d)(2) for the perforaance of confirmation tests,"
1
Frot."' the desk of:
THORNE J. BUTLER, M.D.
DECEMBER 17, 1987
The original copies of this letter and enclosed
supplement were sent to the Washington office.
These copies are sent to the Las Vegas office
in hope that the Senator would see mv comments
in case he had left Washington prior to receipt
of the originals.
Clmical l^thology
AiutomK PiU>ok>gy
Fotttisk Tbxicobgy
'1-,.^^ )ohn F Sch»«nz
2 I P'f [,• r • Direcior
' HMIV A^'iplosviy, M.D
Aswciav ftthologisis
Roben R fiellivetu. M D
PioriK J BuUer, M.D.
Aauaciacion S Ybslle. M D.
DtvMj A. Mulkey. M.D.
Allen R. Ane&. M.D
W, HcM^ HofFmtn. M.D,
Jean E McCusker. M.D.
Dantfl P. Moldcn. M.D.
LeMinh Hang, M.D.
tma M. Small. M.D.. Ph.D.
Carol A. det Hanen-Algier. M.D.
ScienbHc SafF:
Bofttia M. Comett. Ri.D.
Johfi E, Hiaa. Ph.D.
Chief TbchAologai:
Jo Aaoe Ed>«inja. M.T. (ASCP)
Today, 1 received two applications from the contractor to the
National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for their National
Laboratory Certification program. One form was an application
to apply for the certification program, the other was asking
if I would participate as an inspector for that program.
Portions of both of these applications have given me a
mixture of anger, frustration, and disappointment.
In early November, 1 met with you and your staff discussing
my concerns on the approach of NIDA in developing a national
laboratory accreditation for laboratories performing urine
drug testing in the workplace. This certification ostensively
is only to serve federal agencies testing their civilian
employees. But it is obvious that this certification will
become a national standard.
During my visit, Craig Simmons of your staff discussed with
me this question in more detail. Furthermore I forwarded to
Mr. Simmons additional materials on past communications and
documents between NIDA and AACC-CAP.
I admit that I have a special interest in these questions. As
both a forensic toxicologist and as the commissioner for
forensic laboratory accreditation for the College of American
Pathologists (CAP), 1 believe that a voluntary accreditation
system which CAP has had in place for 27 years deserves
better consideration by NIDA than has been evidenced over the
last six months.
1 am enclosing my more detailed comments why I have become
angered by what NIDA proposes in their certification process.
Why should the federal government spend about a million
dollars for an un-needed program? The laboratory community
(particularly the forensic laboratory community) is concerned
about the direction of the NIDA program. Many strongly
believe that the program is or will be directed by the
milltary mode 1.
•H^issoaio
MTHODGISIS
MBOMTORIGS
4230 Soulh Bumham Avenue
Suite 250
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-5412
(702) 733-7866
December 17, 1987
Senator Chic Hecht
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20S10
Dear Senator Hecht:
Nevada State Medical Laboratory License No. 4
Title XIX Vendor No. 27-02240
CAP No. 89109-004
DEPT. OF H.E.W. S.S.A NO. :9-80l.'<
I hope that /ou can use your office to at least have NIDA sit
down and discuss with AACC-CAP to grant equivalency for these
two identical programs. Thank you for assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Thorne J. Butter, M.D.
cc Hr. Craig E. Simmons
Copy to Las Vegas office
A FURTHER STATEMENT ON THE NIDA NATIONAL LABORATORY
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.
SUBMITTED BY THORNE J. BUTLER, M.D.
I have a mixture of anger, disappointment and frustration by
the actions taken by NIDA in their now being established
national laboratory certification program.
The need for proper accreditation of laboratories performing
urine drug testing in the workplace has become increasingly
apparent. The Presidential directive for the testing for the
federal civilian workforce, ever increasing challenges to the
reliability and accuracy of such urine testing and published
papers spelling out the criteria for what constitutes legally
defendable tests have mandated the need for proper
accreditation of these drug testing laboratories. The College
of American Pathologists (CAP) with 27 years of experience in
laboratory evaluation inspection and accreditation for more
than 4,000 medical laboratories worldwide in more than 52
different analytical disciplines decided to establish a
forensic urine drug testing accreditation program to fulfill
this public need. The program is being added to the present
toxicology proficiency Inspection programs entitled; Advanced
Toxicology, Urine Toxicology, Blood Alcohol, and Blood Lead
subscribed to by some 1,000 laboratories. The CAP has had
regulatory experience since the blood lead program is used as
a regulatory basis for accrediting those laboratories
permitted to analyze samples in the OSHA surveillance
programs.
Taking guidance from the NIDA guidelines established by an
advisory committtee of well-known prominent foenslc
toxiCO 1ogists, the CAP in concert with the American
Association of Clinical Chemists <(AACC> has established a
detailed stringent accreditation program.
That program was in place by April 1987 and submitted to NIDA
for their review and comment. The AACC-CAP did not bid on the
NIDA RFP for the initial certification program for several
reasons: the primary being, that the subsidy would be limited
to only 50 laboratories. By August 1987 announcements were
widely distributed nationally to the laboratorty community
announcing the availability of this new program. By October
143 laboratories signed up for the program. (Obviously the 50
laboratory limit established by NIDA was ill-based.) On
November 2, each participant laboratory received the first of
four open blind proficiency samples requiring analysis. The
results from that first set have been analyzed, graded and
results sent to participating laboratories. The participants
in this program received their second sample set on December
3 and will receive the subsequent two sets on January 3 and
February 2, 1988.
The fee charged the laboratories for the application and
samples was $5A0.00. Furthermore, the applying laboratories
received a copy of the checklist spelling out the stringent
requirements to the program. If after review of those
requirements the laboratory felt that It could not meet those
standards they had two weeks to withdraw and receive a total
refund.
What has NI DA done? There application package was delivered
on December 14, 1967. Only 50 laboratories found acceptable
will be Included in the first phase of the program. But all
applicants will pay a non-refundab1e 4300 fee. If a
laboratory Is not acceptable In this first round and the
program is reopened In the future then another 4300 fee will
be required. For the three proficiency samples the laboratory
will pay 41500. For these services (application and
proficiency sample sets) the laboratories are paying only
30% of the cost while 70% will be subsidized by the federal
government. In essence the application and the three
proficiency sets for analysis will cost 46000 per laboratory
applicant compared to the 4540 charged by the AACC-CAF
program. The contractor obviously has a windfall and frankly,
1 cannot see the need for such high costs and/or fees.
For the AACC-CAP program, a training workshop for 62
inspectors was held for 3-1/2 days (December 5-8, 1987) in
St. Louis. The inspector candidates were toxico1ogists,
clinical chemists and clinical pathologists from throughout
the nation. 1 can safely state that many of the more
prominent experts recognized in forensic toxicology were in
attendance. While their time was voluntary, the enthusiasm
and participation was high and intense. These laboratory
scientists believe and want to have a strict accreditation
program in place to insure the public that urine drug tests
are accurate and reliable.
Many stated after completing the training workshop that the
AACC-CAF program was identical in principle and scope to the
original NIDA guidelines spelled out in the August 14, 1987
Federal Register notice (Vol. 52, No. 157, pgs. 30638-30652).
Several now intend to write their congressional
representatives expressing concern about NIDA spending a
million dollars for what purpose?
Even more fascinating fiscal data is the N1 DA inspector
training program, to be conducted by its contractor RTI
(Research Triangle Institute). The contractor has contacted
most of the same individuals who participated in the AACC-CAP
training program. In the RT! solicitation they are offering
those Individuals a $200 per day stipend plus expenses to
attend a four day workshop in February in San Diego. That
location is clearly a nice location for a winter meeting.
From all appearances they are literally stealing away persons
already trained in an Identical program. No question that the
federal government has the power of the purse and regulatory
base to knock out a well-established experienced non-profit
accrediting organization. I think it is wrong, improper and
almost dishonest. Remember that NIDA and RTI have never
operated, coordinated or administered any laboratory
accreditation program.
In summary what NIDA has done:
1. Refused to recognize a long-established laboratory
accred1 tating organization.
2. Denied that the voluntary participation by the forensic
toxicology community could work and be effective.
3. Has limited the Inspection process to 50 laboratories
when there are obviously at least 2-3 times that number
desireous of seeking accreditation and thereby creating
an obvious lawsuit for the restraint of trade.
4. Has established unrealistic fees most of which are
subsidized by a federal grant.
5. Has deliberately attempted to destroy a well-established
respected voluntary professional accrediting program.
6. NIDA and RTI have no experience in operating any form of
a laboratory accreditation program.
In conclusion, is the way a government agency should
function? To bypass and not to utilize an experienced
laboratory accrediting organization with no cost to
government seems simply irresponsible.
May 13, 1988
something we have already disposed of
I cannot agree to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from New York
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE
AMENDMDFT MO. 201O
(Purpose; To provide for the Imposition of
the death penalty for drug-related kUllngs)
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, I send
an amendment to the desk and ask for
its immediate consideration.
Mr. BYRD. Will the Senator yield?
Mr. D'AMATO. For the purpose of
an inquiry, yes.
Mr. BYRD. I am not going to make
an inquiry.
Would the distinguished Senator
yield to me to renew my request? I
temporarily yielded the floor and
withdrew the request. I do not thinir
we should go on to debate—wiU the
Senator allow me to renew my request?
Mr. D'AMATO. Yes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from New York has relinquished
the floor.
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, is my
amendment at the desk?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator's amendment is at the desk.
The Senator is wlinquishing for the
majority leader.
Mr. BYRD. The Senator is not relinquishing
the floor. He is merely yielding
to me that I may renew my request.
Mr. D'AMATO. For purposes of renewing
your request.
Mr. BYRD. Yes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the amendment and
the Chair will recognize the majority
leader under the relinquishment of
the Senator from New York so that
the majority leader will have the floor
to renew his request.
The clerk wiU report the amendment.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
The Senator from New York [Mr.
^'AMAIOI. for himself, Mr. MeaxowsKt. Mr
HMS, Mr. WnsoK, Mr. DOLT, Mr.
MCCIURE, Mr. STUMS. Mr. THTOMONP. Mr.
GARN. Mr. GRAMM. Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. DECOHciHi,
Mr, TRIBLB, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. STEVEHs.
and Mr. GRASSUTT proposes an amendment
numbered 2070.
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that reading of the
amendment be dispensed with.
Mr. METZENBAUM. Objection. •
Mr. LEVIN. Objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
Is heard. The clerk will read. ^ , '
The legislative clerk proceeded to
read the amendment.
Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that further readmg'of
the amendment be diRppnsed
with.
The PRESIDING OPPICE31. Is
there objection?
Mr. SYMMS. I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
Is heard. The clerk will continue
reading the amendment.
TTie legislative clerk resumed the
reading of the amendment. •
Mr. JOHNSTON. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that further
reading of the amendment be dispensed
with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there objection?
Mr. D'AMATO. I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
is heard. The clerk will continue.
The legislative clerk resumed reading
the amendment.
Mr. BYRD addressed the Chair.
Mr. D'AMATO addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
majority leader.
ORDER OP PHOCEDTTRE
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President. I ask
unanimous consent that the vote on
final passage of this bill occur at 10
o'clock on Tuesday morning next; that
paragraph 4. rule XII be waived, that
there be a 90-mmute time limit on the
amendment by Mr. JOHNSTON; that the
time be divided and controlled in accordance
with the usual form; that
there be a 20-minute time limit on the
amendment by Mr. DOMENICI and Mr
BINCAMAN, time to be controlled and
divided in accordance with the usual
form;
That the time on final passage be
extended. With respect to the time on
final passage, that it not be affected
by the death penalty amendment, to
wit, that the time be extended to
whatever date and hour. If necessary,
to dispose of the amendment one way
or the other.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there objection?
Mr. LEVIN. Reserving the right to
object.
Mr. STEVENS. Reserving the right
to object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Chair hears several reservations of the
right to object.
Without objection, further reading
of the amendment has been agreed to.
Mr. STEVENS. I heard no such
n^otion, Mr. President.
Mr. BYRD. I thought the amendment
had been read. I thought the
clerk completed the reading.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there further reading by the clerk of
the amendment? Is there further reading
required? If there is more reading
to be required
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President. I ask
unanimous consent that further reading
of the amendment be dispensed
with.
The PRESIDma. OFEICEH. -is
there objection? ' •
Mr. lEVlN. Reserving the- right to
object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. There
is an objection. ^
Mr. LEVIN. May I make inquiry of
the majority leader? As part of this
reservation. I did not hear in your
unanimous-consent request this time
that the last amendment that would
be handled under this unanimous-consent
agreement would be the D'Amato
amendment. Was Itthe majority lead-"
er's intention to change his unani-
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mous-consent agreement, or given the
way he phrased it now, would he be
willing to Include that in his new
unanimous-consent proposal?
Mr. BYRD. The reason I did not include
it in that fashion now is because
the amendment is now pending and
the reason I did not phrase it as earlier,
as I had done, was so that if the
Senate reaches the hour of 10 o'clock
on Tuesday morning next and that
amendment has not been disposed of.
the time agreement with respect to all
other amendments would not be vitiated.
I had earlier phrased the order in
such a way that if that amendment, if
the death penalty amendment were to
be called up, essentially the rest of the
agreement would be vitiated. I do not
want to do that. I want to keep the
rest of the agreement, but provide
that when we reach that hour on
Tuesday morning next and any other
amendments that are called up, there
be no time for debate on them and
that hour for that purpose, namely,
disposing of the death penalty amendment,
will be extended accordingly.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, may I
make a parliamentary inquiry?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senate will be In order. The Senator
from Michigan still has his reservation
of his right to object. So the Senator
from Michigan shall complete it, and
the Chair will go to the next reservation.
Mr. LEVIN. Will the majority leader
be willing to Include In his unanimousconsent
proposal that the D'Amato
amendment be laid aside, that it be
the last amendment called up so we
can dispose of all these other amendments,
given the fact that you have
now modified your unanimous-consent
agreement to allow us to proceed until
that amendment is disposed of?
Mr. BYRD. Yes, I so modify the request.
The PRESIDING OFFICTJR. The
unanimous-consent request is modified
so that the D'Amato amendment will
appear at the end after all of the
other amendments.
Mr. STEVENS. On the basis of that
last request, I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. If the
Senator will suspend a moment so that
the Chair may be certain, this is the
unanimous-consent request which has
now-been proposed by the majority
leader.
Now the Chair will go to the Senator
from Alaska. Does he have either an
objection or a reservation to an objection?
-Mr. STEVENS. My objection is that
the D'Amato amendment is a pending
amendment, and I object to it being
automatically set aside until the end.
We can take it up on Monday or Tuesday
since it is the pending business.
The PRESIDIN.G OFFICER. The
Senator has objected to the unanimous
consent.
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Mr. STEVENS. I have no objection
to any other portion of that agreement.
We are trying to work It out so
we can debate that death penalty
amendment and have It be debatable
before this time agreement expires,
which I think is a privilege the Senator
from New York and others have
now.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is
the Senator's reservation. The Chair
understands it. There has been an objection
made. The pending order of
business is to complete the reading of
the amendment. If the Senator from
Alaska
Mr. DOLE, We waived that.
Mr. LEVIN. I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. An objection
is heard to waiving the reading.
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will read.
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I object.
That is the end of that. Now. Mr.
President. I renew the request
minus
Mr. STEVENS. Reading is still going
on.
Mr. D'AMATO. Might I ask the majority
leader
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Chair will state the clerk stopped
reading in the middle of the amendment
Everyone, including the Chair,
assumed that the reading has been
completed. The clerk informs the
Chair that the reading had not been
completed.
Mr. BYRD. The Chair confused me.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes,
and the Chair did not realize he had
not finished. No one did and, therefore.
there is stUi reading to be completed
on the amendment
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President I suggest
the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Regular
order completes the reading since
he was partly through a paragraph. So
the clerk will read.
The legislative clerk continued reading
the amendment.
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President I ask
unanimous consent that further reading
of the amendment be dispensed
with. I would like to make an inquiry.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there objection?
Mr. LEVIN. Objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
is heard.
The clerk wQl read.
The legislative clerk continu^'reading
the amendment. ^ '
Mr. DIXON addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Illinois.
Mr. DIXON. Mr. President, 1 ask
unanimous consent that further reading
of the ^endment be dispensed
with. I think we now have an understanding.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there an objection to the request?
Mr. LEVIN. Reserving the ri^t to
object, win the Senator state what the
agreement is?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Illinois reserves the
right to make a unanimous-consent request.
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I do not
believe a reservation can be made on
dispensing with the reading of the
amendment.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
majority leader Is correct. The clerk
will read.
Mr. LEVIN. In that case I have no
objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER <Mr.
BREATJX). IS there objection to the
unanimous-consent request?
Mr. GRAMM addressed the Chair.
The PRESLDING OFFICER. Is
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request of the Senator from Illinois?
Mr. D'AMATO addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER, Is
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request? The Senator from New
York.
Mr. D'AMATO addressed the Chafr.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request.
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, 1 do
not know if a suggestion of the absence
of a quorum is ^propriate.
Might I make an inquiry of the
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request to dispense with the reading
of the amendment? Is there objection
to that request?
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, for
the purpose of making clarification
Mr. BYRD. Mr. Preddent. I ask for
regular order.
The PRESIDING' OFFICER. The
clerk will read the amendment.
The legislative clerk continued with
the reading of the amendment.
Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that further reading
of the amendmoit be dispensed
with.
The PRESIDING OFE'ICER. Is
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request?
Mr. D'AMATO. I would have to
object, reluctantly.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
is heard. The clerk will read.'
The legislative clerk continued reading
the amendment.
Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. ftesldent, 1 ask
imanimous consent that further riding
of the amendmeht 'be dispensed
with. '
The PRESIDING ' OFFICER. Is
there objection?
- Mr. LEVIN. Objection.'
The PRESIDING OFFICER;, Objection
is heard. The clerk wfll read.
The legislative clerk continued with
the reading of the amendment.
Mr. SYMMS. Mr. President, I a^
unanimous consent that further reading
of the amendent be dispensed
with.
The WtESIDING OmCER. Is
thm Ob jeetion to the request? -
Mr. LEVIN addressed the Chair
The PRESIDING OFFICER. ^
there objection to the request?
Mr. LEVIN. Reserving the right to^
object
Mr. BYRD. I ask for regular order ^
Either object or not.
Mr. LEVIN. I have no objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. ^
there objection to the unanimous-consent
request? Hearing none, it is so ordered.
The amendment is as follows:
At the appropriate place. Insert the following:
SEC DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG-RELATED
RILUNCS.
(a) Blxuents OP OFPENSI:.—Section 408 of
the Controlled Substances Act (21 D.S.C.
648) Is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection
(f); and
(2) by adding a new subsection (e) as follows:
"Death Penalty
"(e) In addition to the other penalties set
forth in this sectioiu any person engaging in
a continuing criminal enterprise, or anyone
working in furtherance of a continuing
critninai enterprise who intentionally, or
with reckless indifference to human life,
kills or participates substantially In the killing
of any individual, shall be sentenced to
any term of imprisonment, which shall not
be less than 20 years, anri which may be up
to life imprisonment, or may be sentenced
to death.".
(b) PROCEDORB APPUCABLB WITH RESPECT
TO THE DEATH PENALTY.—Section 408 of the
Controlled Substances Act <21 U.S.C. 848) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
"Heuing Required with Respect to the
Death Penalty
. "(g) A person shall be subjected to the
penalty of death for any offense under this
section'only If a hearing Is held in aecordance
with this section.
"Notice fay the Government in Death
Penalty Cases
"(h)(1) Whenever the Government intends
to seek the death penalty for an offense
under this section for which one of
the sentences provided is death, the attorney
for the Government, a reasonable time
before trial or acceptance by the court of a
plea of guilty, shall sign and file with the
court, and serve upon the defendant, a
notice—
"(A) that the Government in the event of
conviction will seek the sentence of death:
and
"(B) setting forth the aggravating' factors
which the Government will seek to prove as
the basis for the death pen^ty.
"<2> The court may permit the attorney
for the Government to amend thin notice
for good cause shown.
"Hearing Before Court or Jury
"U)(l) When the attorney for the Govemment.
liaa filed a notice as required under
subsection (g) and the defendant Is found
guilty of or pleads guilty to an offense
under subsection <e). the Judge who presided
at the trial or before whom the guilty
plea was entered, or any other Judge if the
judge who presided at the trial or before
whom the gull^ plea was entered is unav^-
able. shall conduct a separMe sentencing
hearing to determine the punishment to be
imposed. The hearing shall be conducted—
"(A) before the jury which determined
the defendant's guQt; '
MoylS, im
••<BJ before s jury In^janeUd foe the nutpose
of Che hearing if—
"(I) the defendant was coavfcCed uoon a
plea of guilty:
"(il)' the defendant was convicted after a
trial before the court sitting without a Jury:
~<iii) the Jury which determined the defendant's
guilt has been discharged for good
cause: or
"(fv) after initial fmposltlon of asentcnce
under this section, redetermination of the
sentence under this section Is necessary; or
"(C> before the court alone, updn the
motion of the defendant and with the approval
of the Government.
"<a> A Jury impaneled pursuant to paragraph
(IXB) shall consist of 12 members,
unless, at any time before the conclusion of
the hearing, the parties stipulate with the
approval of the court that it shall consist of
any number less than 12.
"Proof of Aggravating and Mitigating
Factors
"CjyNotwitlistandmgrule 32(c) of the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure, when a
defendant Is found guilty of or pleads guilty
to an offense under subsection (e). no presentence
report shall be prepared. In the
sentencing hearing, information may be presented
as to any matter reUvant to the sentence
and shall include matters relating to
any of the ^gravating or mitfgattog factors
set forth in subsections <m> and (n), or any
other mitigating factor. Where information
is presented, relating to any of the aggrasab-
Ing factors set» forth in subsection (n), Informatlorr
may be presented relating to any
other aggravating factor. Informatfon presented
may tnclude the trftd transcript
exhibits If the hearing la held before s jury
or >idge not present during the trial. Any
other Information relevant to sueh mltlgat-
Ine or aggravating factors may be presented
by either the Government or the defendant,
regardless of Its admlssfblllty under the
rul« govem&ig admission of evidence at
crlmtoal triab, except that informatfon may
be excluded If its probative value ts substsiK
tlally outweighed by the danger of unfair
prejudice., confusion of the issues, or misleading
the jury,. The Government fmd the
defendant shall be pennftted to rebut any
mformatiorr received at the heaihig and
shall be given fair opportunity to present
argument as to the adequacy of the Informstloa.
to establish the existence of any of
the aggravating or mitigating lactors. and as
to appropriateness la that case ol
a seaCence of death. The Government almll
open the argument The defendant shall be
POTiitted to reply. The Government shaD
tbw be permitted' to reply in rebuttal. The
bBden of establishing the existence of any
aggravating factor is on the Government,
and ts not satisfied unless ataBUshed
beyond a reasonaWe doubt. The burden of
estshlfshlng the existence of any mitigating
fad^or Is on the defendant, mid Is not
fied unless established by a preponderance
of the fnformatioii.
"Return of Platfings
"Cfcl The Jury, or ff there is no J'ury, the
court shatt (xmsider alt the InfOEmatibn tecef?^
dbrfng ther hearing. It shall retum
special ffndlngs identifying any mftfgatihg
factors, and any aggravating factera act
fo^ In subsection (rh) or <n), found to
exist.. If one ol the aggravattng factors set
forth la subsection inXl) and another of
the aggravating factors set forth In. peragraphs
(2) through (7J of subsecUon. Cn> Is.
found to exist, s special flnd&ig Identffylag
any other aggravattng factor may be re-
A finding of such a factor by a Jury
be made by unanimous vote. It an aggtwatlng
factor set forth to. subsecCton
found.to exist «i aa aggravat-
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE
lug factor aet forth to subseettm (nxdl Is
found, to exist but no other aggravating
factor set forth tosubsectlon <n:Jls found to
exist, the court shall Impose e sentence,
other than death, authorized by law. If an
aggravating factor set forth to subsection
(nJCl)' and one or more of the other aggravating
factors set forth tosubsecttoROilare
found to exist, the Jury, or If there is no
Jury, the court. shaU then consider whether
the aggravating factor or factors found to
exist sufficiently outweigh any mitigating
factor or factors found to exist, or in the absence
of mitigating factors, whether the aggravating
factors are themselves sufficient
to Justify a sentence of death. Based upon
this- consideration, the Jury by unanimousvote.
or If there ia no Jury, the court, shall
return a finding aato whether ^sentence of
death ts Justifled.
"Imposition of Sentence
"(1) Upon ft flndlBg that a sentence of
death Is Justified, the court shall
the defendant to death. Otherwise the court
shall Impose a sentence, other than death
authorized by law.
"Ml tigattog Factors
"(m) In determining whether a sentence
of death is to be imposed on s defendant,
the following mitigattog factors shall be
considered but are not exclusive;
"(1) The defendant was less than IS years
of age at the time of the crime.
"(2> The defendant's capacity to appreciate
the wrongfulness of his conduct or to
conform his conduct to the requirements of
law was significantly hnpalred, but not so
Impaired as to constitute a defense to the
charge:
"(3) The defendant was under unusual
and substantial duress, aHhougb not such
duress as constitutes a defense to the
charge.
"(4) The defendant Is punishable as a
principal (as defined in section 2(a) of title
18 Of the United States' CbdirJ to the- offrtise.
whicto was ccminitCed by another, but
the defendant's partieipatton waa relatively
minor, although not so minor as to constitute
a defense to tha charge.
"(5) The defendant could not reasonably
have foreseen that his conduct in the course
of the commhsioR of murder, or other offense
resulting to death for which the defendant
was coRvtctedi would cause, or
would create a grave risk of wnvrtwyto
any peraoa,
"Aggravating Factors for Homicide
"(n) If the defendant hfcnmd guilty of or
pleads guilt? to an offense undernibBectiois
(eh the following aggravating factors shall
be considered but areaotexclualve:
"(I) The defendant—
"(A) Intentionally klWed the victim;
"(B> totentlonaUy inflicted' serious bodHy
Injury v4ifch resulted to tfte death of the
victim:
"IC> totentloaxny eogagedl In. conduct intending
that, the vlcttor be or
lethal force be emiri<9ed against the vietlm,
which resulted to the deathof ihevlcUm.
"(D) fntenffonang.. engaged, to. *
wWch— " , • •
"(ff the defends^ Jniew. wuuM create g
grave riskier death to a person: othertharr
one of the participants in the eflmaer
"(UrxesoltedtBiihedeaCBioeQieiVttaato:'.'
"(2) The defendant has bees comfbted at
another Federal.offense^ a SOtie eEfenae
resulting to the death, of a-person, lorwhieh
a sentence .of Qfe Imprisonment or a. sen--
tence of death was authorized by statute.
"(3) The defendant has prevlonriy been
convfeted of two or more-State-or FederaF'
offenses: punishable by-a-term' ef-lioprtseiyment
of noretban oae'year. cDZBriAfetf.-«a:
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different oecastons, tovolvftig the toflitoion
of. or attempted faflictlon of, sertoua bodily
Injury upon another person.
"(41 The defendant baa previoualy been
convicted of two or more State or Federal
offenses punishable by a term of Imprisonment
of more than one year, commlttedon
different occasions, involvtog the dfetrlbotion
of a controlled substance.
"(5) In the commission, of the olTense or In
escaping apprehension for a violation of
subsection (e). the defendant knowingly created
a grave risk of death to one or more
persons in addition to the vlctiias. of the offense.
"(ff) The vlolatfon of this chapter In retotfon
to which the conduct described to subseetton
(e> occnrred. wax- a vfohitfcar of section
405.
"(71 The defendant committed the offense
in an especially heinous, cruel, or depraved
manner.
"Instrucrion to Jury on Right of the E>efendant
to JusUce Wlttaoul DlseriminaXtaii
"(o) la.any hearing held before a Jury
under this section, the court shaU instruct
the Jury that in Its consideratioa of whether
the sentence of death la Justified It shall not
consider the race, color, national' ori^.
creed, or se* of the defendant. The Jury
shall retum to the court a certificate signed
by each Juror that conslderaribn of race,
color, national orlglia creeth as sex of the
defendant was not Involved to. reachtog his
or hes todMdual decision.
"Sentenctog to Capital ChsealrtWUch
Death.Penalty is not Sought or Imposed
"(p) If a person Is convicted for an oflrewe
under subsection (e) and the court, dees not
Impose the penalty of death, the court may
Impose a sentence of life Imprfconment
without the posslbflfty of parole.
"App«^ to Capital Cases
"(qXl) In any case to which the sentence
of death Is Imposed under this section, the
sentence of death shall be subject to review
by the court of appeals- upon appeal by the
defenAuit. Notice of appeal must be ftled
wlthto the time prescribed for appeal of
Judgment to section 230T of title 28 oC
United States Code. An appeal; under (bfe
section may be c<msolldated with ui ai^eali
of the Judgment of convictloia. Such review
shall have prforlty over all other cases.
12) On review of the sentence, the court
of appeals shall consider the record, the evidence
submitted dortog the trtM. the InforrnatloB.
sobnritted. dtudng the sentenetag
hearing: the procedures engAoyed; im the: '
sentencing heartog, and the special ffndl^ -
returned under this seetioB.
"(3> The court rtiall affirm the sentence if
it determines thaf—
'TAJ the sentence of death wtis not Imposed
tmdter the toflaenee of passion, prejudice,
or any other arbitrary fitetor and
"(B)' the fhfoRiiaUon. soppbrta the special
finding; of the exlstssvce of every
Ing factM' upon wMch the sentence w«
based, together wIUi.pe the failure, to ftod
aoy tn&.igaflng faetors ax set. fMth-ec.ah.-
lowed in Chb section,, . .
Iir g» other caserttttaonff sltalT rematld
the case for reconsideration under tWs 8e»
tlOTk The court of sppesis shaB rtate fa
wrttingrthereasowfor Ms dfepocitlbniefthe
revlew of tlieseiiteuee?-
Mr. LEVIN addressed the Chair. "
Mr. SYMMS addFessed the Chair.
The raECTDINO OFFICER. The
Senator from Mfchlgae is recogn^ed.
Mr. .SYSCMS. MrtFFefadenCi 1 inw
the-ftooi, -r ifid-not-' re»K|ufefe--the
floor. -