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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 117–99: To designate methamphetamine as an emerging threat, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2022-03-14</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 117–99—MAR. 14, 2022</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/136/43">136 STAT. 43</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>117–99</docNumber>
<congress value="117">117th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To designate methamphetamine as an emerging threat, and for other purposes.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xdf1811fd-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2022-03-14">Mar. 14, 2022</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xdf1811fe-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/117/s/854">S. 854</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xdf1811ff-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Methamphet-</p><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xdf181200-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">amine Response </p><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xdf181201-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Act of 2021.</p><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xdf181202-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t21/s1708">21 USC 1708 note</ref>.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d31018e96" identifier="/us/pl/117/99/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Methamphetamine Response Act of 2021</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d31018e106" identifier="/us/pl/117/99/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>DECLARATION OF EMERGING THREAT.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydf186023-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/117/99/s2/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Congress declares methamphetamine an emerging drug threat, as defined in section 702 of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (<ref href="/us/usc/t21/s1701">21 U.S.C. 1701</ref>), in the United States.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydf186024-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/117/99/s2/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xdf186025-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Deadline.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Required Emerging Threat Response Plan</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall establish and implement an Emerging Threat Response Plan that is specific to methamphetamine in accordance with section 709(d) of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (<ref href="/us/usc/t21/s1708/d">21 U.S.C. 1708(d)</ref>).</content></subsection>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2022-03-14">March 14, 2022</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/117/s/854">S. 854</ref>:</heading>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:</heading>
<subheading style="-uslm-lc:I658033">Vol. 167 (2021):</subheading>
<p class="indentUp2 firstIndent-1" id="xdf186026-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658034">Dec. 13, considered and passed Senate.</p><subheading style="-uslm-lc:I658033">Vol. 168 (2022):</subheading>
<p class="indentUp2 firstIndent-1" id="xdf186027-e811-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658034">Feb. 28, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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