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105th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4300
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AN ACT
To support enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit
countries and support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop
substitution program in source countries.
105th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4300
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AN ACT
To support enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit
countries and support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop
substitution program in source countries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Western Hemisphere
Drug Elimination Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings and statement of policy.
TITLE I--ENHANCED SOURCE AND TRANSIT COUNTRY COVERAGE
Sec. 101. Expansion of aircraft coverage and operation in source and
transit countries.
Sec. 102. Expansion of maritime coverage and operation in source and
transit countries.
Sec. 103. Expansion of radar coverage and operation in source and
transit countries.
TITLE II--ENHANCED ERADICATION AND INTERDICTION STRATEGY IN SOURCE
COUNTRIES
Sec. 201. Additional eradication resources for Colombia.
Sec. 202. Additional eradication resources for Peru.
Sec. 203. Additional eradication resources for Bolivia.
Sec. 204. Additional eradication resources for Mexico.
Sec. 205. Miscellaneous additional eradication resources.
Sec. 206. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs.
Sec. 207. Report on transferring international narcotics assistance
activities to a United States law
enforcement agency.
TITLE III--ENHANCED ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN SOURCE ZONE
AND MYCOHERBICIDE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 301. Alternative crop development support.
Sec. 302. Authorization of appropriations for Agricultural Research
Service counterdrug research and
development activities.
Sec. 303. Master plan for mycoherbicides to control narcotic crops.
TITLE IV--ENHANCED INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING
Sec. 401. Enhanced international law enforcement academy training.
Sec. 402. Enhanced United States drug enforcement international
training.
Sec. 403. Provision of nonlethal equipment to foreign law enforcement
organizations for cooperative illicit
narcotics control activities.
TITLE V--ENHANCED DRUG TRANSIT AND SOURCE ZONE LAW ENFORCEMENT
OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT
Sec. 501. Increased funding for operations and equipment.
Sec. 502. Sense of the Congress regarding priority of drug interdiction
and counterdrug activities.
Sec. 503. Provision of assistance by the Armed Forces to the
Immigration and Naturalization Service and
Customs Service.
TITLE VI--RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS
Sec. 601. Authorizations of appropriations.
TITLE VII--CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PORT EMPLOYEES
Sec. 701. Background checks.
Sec. 702. Definition.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND STATEMENT OF POLICY.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Teenage drug use in the United States has doubled since
1993.
(2) The drug crisis facing the United States is a top
national security threat.
(3) The spread of illicit drugs through United States
borders cannot be halted without an effective drug interdiction
strategy.
(4) Effective drug interdiction efforts have been shown to
limit the availability of illicit narcotics, drive up the
street price, support demand reduction efforts, and decrease
overall drug trafficking and use.
(5) A prerequisite for reducing youth drug use is
increasing the price of drugs. To increase price substantially,
at least 60 percent of drugs must be interdicted.
(6) In 1987, the national drug control budget maintained a
significant balance between demand and supply reduction
efforts, illustrated as follows:
(A) 29 percent of the total drug control budget
expenditures for demand reduction programs.
(B) 38 percent of the total drug control budget
expenditures for domestic law enforcement.
(C) 33 percent of the total drug control budget
expenditures for international drug interdiction
efforts.
(7) In the late 1980's and early 1990's, counternarcotic
efforts were successful, specifically in protecting the borders
of the United States from penetration by illegal narcotics
through increased seizures by the United States Coast Guard and
other agencies, including a 302 percent increase in pounds of
cocaine seized between 1987 and 1991.
(8) Limiting the availability of narcotics to drug
traffickers in the United States had a promising effect as
illustrated by the decline of illicit drug use between 1988 and
1991, through a--
(A) 13 percent reduction in total drug use;
(B) 35 percent drop in cocaine use; and
(C) 16 percent decrease in marijuana use.
(9) In 1993, drug interdiction efforts in the transit zones
were reduced due to an imbalance in the national drug control
strategy. This trend has continued through 1995 as shown by the
following figures:
(A) 35 percent for demand reduction programs.
(B) 53 percent for domestic law enforcement.
(C) 12 percent for international drug interdiction
efforts.
(10) Supply reduction efforts became a lower priority for
the Administration and the seizures by the United States Coast
Guard and other agencies decreased as shown by a 68 percent
decrease in the pounds of cocaine seized between 1991 and 1996.
(11) Reductions in funding for comprehensive interdiction
operations like OPERATION GATEWAY and OPERATION STEELWEB,
initiatives that encompassed all areas of interdiction and
attempted to disrupt the operating methods of drug smugglers
along the entire United States border, have created unprotected
United States border areas which smugglers exploit to move
their product into the United States.
(12) The result of this new imbalance in the national drug
control strategy caused the drug situation in the United States
to become a crisis with serious consequences including--
(A) doubling of drug-abuse-related arrests for
minors between 1992 and 1996;
(B) 70 percent increase in overall drug use among
children aged 12 to 17;
(C) 80 percent increase in drug use for graduating
seniors since 1992;
(D) a sharp drop in the price of 1 pure gram of
heroin from $1,647 in 1992 to $966 in February 1996;
and
(E) a reduction in the street price of 1 gram of
cocaine from $123 to $104 between 1993 and 1994.
(13) The percentage change in drug use since 1992, among
graduating high school students who used drugs in the past 12
months, has substantially increased--marijuana use is up 80
percent, cocaine use is up 80 percent, and heroin use is up 100
percent.
(14) The Department of Defense has been called upon to
support counter-drug efforts of Federal law enforcement
agencies that are carried out in source countries and through
transit zone interdiction, but in recent years Department of
Defense assets critical to those counter-drug activities have
been consistently diverted to missions that the Secretary of
Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider
a higher priority.
(15) The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, through the Department of Defense policy
referred to as the Global Military Force Policy, has
established the priorities for the allocation of military
assets in the following order: (1) war; (2) military operations
other than war that might involve contact with hostile forces
(such as peacekeeping operations and noncombatant evacuations);
(3) exercises and training; and (4) operational tasking other
than those involving hostilities (including counter-drug
activities and humanitarian assistance).
(16) Use of Department of Defense assets is critical to the
success of efforts to stem the flow of illegal drugs from
source countries and through transit zones to the United
States.
(17) The placement of counter-drug activities in the fourth
and last priority of the Global Military Force Policy list of
priorities for the allocation of military assets has resulted
in a serious deficiency in assets vital to the success of
source country and transit zone efforts to stop the flow of
illegal drugs into the United States.
(18) At present the United States faces few, if any,
threats from abroad greater than the threat posed to the
Nation's youth by illegal and dangerous drugs.
(19) The conduct of counter-drug activities has the
potential for contact with hostile forces.
(20) The Department of Defense counter-drug activities
mission should be near the top, not among the last, of the
priorities for the allocation of Department of Defense assets
after the first priority for those assets for the war-fighting
mission of the Department of Defense.
(b) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United States
to--
(1) reduce the supply of drugs and drug use through an
enhanced drug interdiction effort in the major drug transit
countries, as well support a comprehensive supply country
eradication and crop substitution program, because a commitment
of increased resources in international drug interdiction
efforts will create a balanced national drug control strategy
among demand reduction, law enforcement, and international drug
interdiction efforts; and
(2) support policies and dedicate the resources necessary
to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States by
not less than 80 percent by December 31, 2001.
TITLE I--ENHANCED SOURCE AND TRANSIT COUNTRY COVERAGE
SEC. 101. EXPANSION OF AIRCRAFT COVERAGE AND OPERATION IN SOURCE AND
TRANSIT COUNTRIES.
(a) Department of the Treasury.--Funds are authorized to be
appropriated for the Department of the Treasury for fiscal years 1999,
2000, and 2001 for the enhancement of air coverage and operation for
drug source and transit countries, as follows:
(1) For procurement of 10 P-3B Early Warning aircraft for
the United States Customs Service to enhance overhead air
coverage of drug source zone countries, the total amount of
$430,000,000.
(2) For the procurement and deployment of 10 P-3B Slick
airplanes for the United States Customs Service to enhance
overhead air coverage of the drug source zone, the total amount
of $150,000,000.
(3) For each of fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for operation
and maintenance of 10 P-3B Early Warning aircraft for the
United States Customs Service to enhance overhead air coverage
of drug source zone countries, $23,500,000.
(4) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
personnel for the 10 P-3B Early Warning aircraft for the United
States Customs Service to enhance overhead air coverage of drug
source zone countries, $12,500,000.
(5) For each of fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for operation
and maintenance of 10 P-3B Slick airplanes for the United
States Customs Service to enhance overhead coverage of the drug
source zone, $23,500,000.
(6) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
personnel for the 10 P-3B Slick airplanes for the United States
Customs Service to enhance overhead air coverage of drug source
zone countries, $12,500,000.
(7) For construction and furnishing of an additional
facility for the P-3B aircraft, 6,000,000.
(8) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
operation and maintenance for overhead air coverage for
Colombia, $6,000,000.
(9) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
operation and maintenance for overhead air coverage for
Bolivia, $2,000,000.
(10) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
operation and maintenance for overhead air coverage for Peru,
$6,000,000.
(11) For each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for
operation and maintenance for overhead coverage for the
Caribbean and Eastern Pacific regions, $25,000,000.
(12) For purchase and for operation and maintenance of 3
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