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          DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION

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Public Law 107-82
107th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To extend the authorization of the Drug-Free Communities Support Program 
 for an additional 5 years, to authorize a National Community Antidrug 
     Coalition Institute, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 14, 
                         2001 -  [H.R. 2291]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FIVE-YEAR EXTENSION OF DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT PROGRAM.

    (a) Findings.--Congress <<NOTE: 21 USC 1521 note.>> makes the 
following findings:
            (1) In the next 15 years, the youth population in the United 
        States will grow by 21 percent, adding 6,500,000 youth to the 
        population of the United States. Even if drug use rates remain 
        constant, there will be a huge surge in drug-related problems, 
        such as academic failure, drug-related violence, and HIV 
        incidence, simply due to this population increase.
            (2) According to the 1994-1996 National Household Survey, 60 
        percent of students age 12 to 17 who frequently cut classes and 
        who reported delinquent behavior in the past 6 months used 
        marijuana 52 days or more in the previous year.
            (3) The 2000 Washington Kids Count survey conducted by the 
        University of Washington reported that students whose peers have 
        little or no involvement with drinking and drugs have higher 
        math and reading scores than students whose peers had low level 
        drinking or drug use.
            (4) Substance abuse prevention works. In 1999, only 10 
        percent of teens saw marijuana users as popular, compared to 17 
        percent in 1998 and 19 percent in 1997. The rate of past-month 
        use of any drug among 12- to 17-year-olds declined 26 percent 
        between 1997 and 1999. Marijuana use for sixth through eighth 
        graders is at the lowest point in 5 years, as is use of cocaine, 
        inhalants, and hallucinogens.
            (5) Community Anti-Drug Coalitions throughout the United 
        States are successfully developing and implementing 
        comprehensive, long-term strategies to reduce substance abuse 
        among youth on a sustained basis. For example:
                    (A) The Boston Coalition brought college and 
                university presidents together to create the Cooperative 
                Agreement on Underage Drinking. This agreement 
                represents the first coordinated effort of Boston's many 
                institutions of higher education to address issues such 
                as binge drinking, underage drinking, and changing the 
                norms surrounding alcohol abuse that exist on college 
                and university campuses.
                    (B) In 2000, the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater 
                Cincinnati surveyed more than 47,000 local students in

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                grades 7 through 12. The results provided evidence that 
                the Coalition's initiatives are working. For the first 
                time in a decade, teen drug use in Greater Cincinnati 
                appears to be leveling off. The data collected from the 
                survey has served as a tool to strengthen relationships 
                between schools and communities, as well as facilitate 
                the growth of anti-drug coalitions in communities where 
                such coalitions had not existed.
                    (C) The Miami Coalition used a three-part strategy 
                to decrease the percentage of high school seniors who 
                reported using marijuana at least once during the most 
                recent 30-day period. The development of a media 
                strategy, the creation of a network of prevention 
                agencies, and discussions with high school students 
                about the dangers of marijuana all contributed to a 
                decrease in the percentage of seniors who reported using 
                marijuana from over 22 percent in 1995 to 9 percent in 
                1997. The Miami Coalition was able to achieve these 
                results while national rates of marijuana use were 
                increasing.
                    (D) The Nashville Prevention Partnership worked with 
                elementary and middle school children in an attempt to 
                influence them toward positive life goals and discourage 
                them from using substances. The Partnership targeted an 
                area in East Nashville and created after school 
                programs, mentoring opportunities, attendance 
                initiatives, and safe passages to and from school. 
                Attendance and test scores increased as a result of the 
                program.
                    (E) At a youth-led town meeting sponsored by the 
                Bering Strait Community Partnership in Nome, Alaska, 
                youth identified a need for a safe, substance-free 
                space. With help from a variety of community partners, 
                the Partnership staff and youth members created the Java 
                Hut, a substance-free coffeehouse designed for youth. 
                The Java Hut is helping to change norms in the community 
                by providing a fun, youth-friendly atmosphere and 
                activities that are not centered around alcohol or 
                marijuana.
                    (F) Portland's Regional Drug Initiative (RDI) has 
                promoted the establishment of drug-free workplaces among 
                the city's large and small employers. Over 3,000 
                employers have attended an RDI training session, and of 
                those, 92 percent have instituted drug-free workplace 
                policies. As a result, there has been a 5.5 percent 
                decrease in positive workplace drug tests.
                    (G) San Antonio Fighting Back worked to increase the 
                age at which youth first used illegal substances. 
                Research suggests that the later the age of first use, 
                the lower the risk that a young person will become a 
                regular substance abuser. As a result, the age of first 
                illegal drug use increased from 9.4 years in 1992 to 
                13.5 years in 1997.
                    (H) In 1990, multiple data sources confirmed a trend 
                of increased alcohol use by teenagers in the Troy 
                community. Using its ``multiple strategies over multiple 
                sectors'' approach, the Troy Coalition worked with 
                parents, physicians, students, coaches, and others to 
                address this problem from several angles. As a result, 
                the rate of twelfth grade students who had consumed 
                alcohol in the past month

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                decreased from 62.1 percent to 53.3 percent between 1991 
                and 1998, and the rate of eighth grade students 
                decreased from 26.3 percent to 17.4 percent. The Troy 
                Coalition believes that this decline represents not only 
                a change in behavior on the part of students, but also a 
                change in the norms of the community.
            (6) Despite these successes, drug use continues to be a 
        serious problem facing communities across the United States. For 
        example:
                    (A) According to the Pulse Check: Trends in Drug 
                Abuse Mid-Year 2000 report--
                          (i) crack and powder cocaine remains the most 
                      serious drug problem;
                          (ii) marijuana remains the most widely 
                      available illicit drug, and its potency is on the 
                      rise;
                          (iii) treatment sources report an increase in 
                      admissions with marijuana as the primary drug of 
                      abuse--and adolescents outnumber other age groups 
                      entering treatment for marijuana;
                          (iv) 80 percent of Pulse Check sources 
                      reported increased availability of club drugs, 
                      with ecstasy (MDMA) and ketamine the most widely 
                      cited club drugs and seven sources reporting that 
                      powder cocaine is being used as a club drug by 
                      young adults;
                          (v) ecstasy abuse and trafficking is 
                      expanding, no longer confined to the ``rave'' 
                      scene;
                          (vi) the sale and use of club drugs has grown 
                      from nightclubs and raves to high schools, the 
                      streets, neighborhoods, open venues, and younger 
                      ages;
                          (vii) ecstasy users often are unknowingly 
                      purchasing adulterated tablets or some other 
                      substance sold as MDMA; and
                          (viii) along with reports of increased heroin 
                      snorting as a route of administration for 
                      initiates, there is also an increase in injecting 
                      initiates and the negative health consequences 
                      associated with injection (for example, increases 
                      in HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C) suggesting that there 
                      is a generational forgetting of the dangers of 
                      injection of the drug.
                    (B) The 2000 Parent's Resource Institute for Drug 
                Education study reported that 23.6 percent of children 
                in the sixth through twelfth grades used illicit drugs 
                in the past year. The same study found that monthly 
                usage among this group was 15.3 percent.
                    (C) According to the 2000 Monitoring the Future 
                study, the use of ecstasy among eighth graders increased 
                from 1.7 percent in 1999 to 3.1 percent in 2000, among 
                tenth graders from 4.4 percent to 5.4 percent, and from 
                5.6 percent to 8.2 percent among twelfth graders.
                    (D) A 1999 Mellman Group study found that--
                          (i) 56 percent of the population in the United 
                      States believed that drug use was increasing in 
                      1999;
                          (ii) 92 percent of the population viewed 
                      illegal drug use as a serious problem in the 
                      United States; and
                          (iii) 73 percent of the population viewed 
                      illegal drug use as a serious problem in their 
                      communities.

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            (7) According to the 2001 report of the National Center on 
        Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University entitled 
        ``Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State 
        Budgets'', using the most conservative assumption, in 1998 
        States spent $77,900,000,000 to shovel up the wreckage of 
        substance abuse, only $3,000,000,000 to prevent and treat the 
        problem and $433,000,000 for alcohol and tobacco regulation and 
        compliance. This $77,900,000,000 burden was distributed as 
        follows:
                    (A) $30,700,000,000 in the justice system (77 
                percent of justice spending).
                    (B) $16,500,000,000 in education costs (10 percent 
                of education spending).
                    (C) $15,200,000,000 in health costs (25 percent of 
                health spending).
                    (D) $7,700,000,000 in child and family assistance 
                (32 percent of child and family assistance spending).
                    (E) $5,900,000,000 in mental health and 
                developmental disabilities (31 percent of mental health 
                spending).
                    (F) $1,500,000,000 in public safety (26 percent of 
                public safety spending) and $400,000,000 for the state 
                workforce.
            (8) Intergovernmental cooperation and coordination through 
        national, State, and local or tribal leadership and partnerships 
        are critical to facilitate the reduction of substance abuse 
        among youth in communities across the United States.
            (9) Substance abuse is perceived as a much greater problem 
        nationally than at the community level. According to a 2001 
        study sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts, between 1994 and 
        2000--
                    (A) there was a 43 percent increase in the 
                percentage of Americans who felt progress was being made 
                in the war on drugs at the community level;
                    (B) only 9 percent of Americans say drug abuse is a 
                ``crisis'' in their neighborhood, compared to 27 percent 
                who say this about the nation; and
                    (C) the percentage of those who felt we lost ground 
                in the war on drugs on a community level fell by more 
                than a quarter, from 51 percent in 1994 to 37 percent in 
                2000.

    (b) Extension and Increase of Program.--Section 1024(a) of the 
National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 1524(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4); and
            (2) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following 
        new paragraphs:
            ``(5) $50,600,000 for fiscal year 2002;
            ``(6) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;
            ``(7) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
            ``(8) $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
            ``(9) $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
            ``(10) $99,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.''.

    (c) Extension of Limitation on Administrative Costs.--Section 
1024(b) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 1524(b)) is amended by striking paragraph 
(5) and inserting the following new paragraph (5):
            ``(5) 6 percent for each of fiscal years 2002 through 
        2007.''.

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    (d) Additional Grants.--Section 1032(b) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 
1533(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph 
(3):
            ``(3) Additional grants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (F), the 
                Administrator may award an additional grant under this 
                paragraph to an eligible coalition awarded a grant under 
                paragraph (1) or (2) for any first fiscal year after the 
                end of the 4-year period following the period of the 
                initial grant under paragraph (1) or (2), as the case 
                may be.
                    ``(B) Scope of grants.--A coalition awarded a grant 
                under paragraph (1) or (2), including a renewal grant 
                under such paragraph, may not be awarded another grant 
                under such paragraph, and is eligible for an additional 
                grant under this section only under this paragraph.
                    ``(C) No priority for applications.--The 
                Administrator may not afford a higher priority in the 
                award of an additional grant under this paragraph than 
                the Administrator would afford the applicant for the 
                grant if the applicant were submitting an application 
                for an initial grant under paragraph (1) or (2) rather 
                than an application for a grant under this paragraph.
                    ``(D) Renewal grants.--Subject to subparagraph (F), 
                the Administrator may award a renewal grant to a grant 
                recipient under this paragraph for each of the fiscal 
                years of the 4-fiscal-year period following the fiscal 
                year for which the initial additional grant under 
                subparagraph (A) is awarded in an amount not to exceed 
                amounts as follows:
                          ``(i) For the first and second fiscal years of 
                      that 4-fiscal-year period, the amount equal to 80 
                      percent of the non-Federal funds, including in-
                      kind contributions, raised by the coalition for 
                      the applicable fiscal year.
                          ``(ii) For the third and fourth fiscal years 
                      of that 4-fiscal-year period, the amount equal to 
                      67 percent of the non-Federal funds, including in-

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