[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 2522 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2522

  To support enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit 
   countries and support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop 
               substitution program in source countries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           Setember 28, 1998

Mr. DeWine (for himself, Mr. Coverdell, Mr. Graham, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. 
Bond, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Helms, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Mack, Mr. 
 Hatch, Mr. Craig, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Allard, Mr. Frist, 
Mr. Murkowski, Mrs. Hutchison, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Burns, 
   Mr. Bennett, Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Smith of 
  Oregon, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Cleland, and Mr. Grassley) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  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 radar coverage and operation in source and 
                            transit countries.
Sec. 102. Expansion of Coast Guard drug interdiction.
Sec. 103. Expansion of aircraft 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. Miscellaneous additional eradication resources.
Sec. 205. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
                            Affairs.
TITLE III--ENHANCED ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN SOURCE ZONE

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; report.
Sec. 502. Funding for computer software and hardware to facilitate 
                            direct communication between drug 
                            enforcement agencies.
Sec. 503. Sense of Congress regarding priority of drug interdiction and 
                            counterdrug activities.
                  TITLE VI--RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS

Sec. 601. Authorizations of appropriations.
        TITLE VII--CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PORT EMPLOYEES

Sec. 701. Background checks.
                 TITLE VIII--DRUG CURRENCY FORFEITURES

Sec. 801. Short title.
Sec. 802. Drug currency forfeitures.

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) develop and establish comprehensive drug interdiction 
        and drug eradication strategies, and dedicate the required 
        resources, to achieve the goal of reducing the flow of illegal 
        drugs into the United States by 80 percent by as early as 
        December 31, 2001.

         TITLE I--ENHANCED SOURCE AND TRANSIT COUNTRY COVERAGE

SEC. 101. EXPANSION OF RADAR COVERAGE AND OPERATION IN SOURCE AND 
              TRANSIT COUNTRIES.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Funds are authorized to be 
appropriated for the Department of the Treasury for fiscal years 1999, 
2000, and 2001 for the enhancement of radar coverage in drug source and 
transit countries in the total amount of $14,300,000 which shall be 
available for the following purposes:
            (1) For restoration of radar, and operation and maintenance 
        of radar, in the Bahamas.
            (2) For operation and maintenance of ground-based radar at 
        Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
    (b) Report.--Not later than January 31, 1999, the Secretary of 
Defense, in conjunction with the Director of Central Intelligence, 
shall submit to the Committee on National Security and the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the Senate a report examining the options available to 
the United States for improving Relocatable Over the Horizon (ROTHR) 
capability to provide enhanced radar coverage of narcotics source zone 
countries in South America and transit zones in the Eastern Pacific. 
The report shall include--
            (1) a discussion of the need and costs associated with the 
        establishment of a proposed fourth ROTHR site located in the 
        source or transit zones; and
            (2) an assessment of the intelligence specific issues 
        raised if such a ROTHR facility were to be established in 
        conjunction with a foreign government.

SEC. 102. EXPANSION OF COAST GUARD DRUG INTERDICTION.

    (a) Operating Expenses.--For operating expenses of the Coast Guard 
associated with expansion of drug interdiction activities around Puerto 
Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and other transit zone areas of 
operation, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
Transportation $151,500,000 for each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 
2001. Such amounts shall include (but are not limited to) amounts for 
the following:
            (1) For deployment of intelligent acoustic detection buoys 
        in the Florida Straits and Bahamas.
            (2) For a nonlethal technology program to enhance 
        countermeasures against the threat of transportation of drugs 
        by so-called Go-Fast boats.
    (b) Acquisition, Construction, and Improvement.--
            (1) In general.--For acquisition, construction, and 
        improvement of facilities and equipment to be used for 
        expansion of Coast Guard drug interdiction activities, there is 
        authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
        Transportation for fiscal year 1999 the total amount of 
        $630,300,000 which shall be available for the following 
        purposes:
                    (A) For maritime patrol aircraft sensors.
                    (B) For acquisition of deployable pursuit boats.
                    (C) For the acquisition and construction of up to 
                15 United States Coast Guard 87-foot Coastal Patrol 
                Boats.
                    (D) For--
                            (i) the reactivation of up to 3 United 
                        States Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jets;
                            (ii) the procurement of up to 3 C-37A 
                        aircraft; or
                            (iii) the procurement of up to 3 C-20H 
                        aircraft.
                    (E) For acquisition of installed or deployable 
                electronic sensors and communications systems for Coast 
                Guard Cutters.
                    (F) For acquisition and construction of facilities 
                and equipment to support regional and international law 
                enforcement training and support in Puerto Rico, the 
                United States Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Basin.
                    (G) For acquisition or conversion of maritime 
                patrol aircraft.
                    (H) For acquisition or conversion of up to 2 
                vessels to be used as Coast Guard Medium or High 
                Endurance Cutters.
                    (I) For acquisition or conversion of up to 2 
                vessels to be used as Coast Guard Cutters as support, 
                command, and control platforms for drug interdiction 
                operations.
                    (J) For acquisition of up to 6 Coast Guard Medium 
                Endurance Cutters.
                    (K) For acquisition of up to 6 HC-130J aircraft.
            (2) Continued availability.--Amounts appropriated under 
        this subsection may remain available until expended.
    (c) Requirement To Accept Patrol Craft From Department of 
Defense.--The Secretary of Transportation shall accept, for use by the 
Coast Guard for expanded drug interdiction activities, 7 PC-170 patrol 
craft offered by the Department of Defense.

SEC. 103. 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 in the total amount of $886,500,000 
which shall be available for the following purposes:
            (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.
            (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.
            (3) In 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.
            (4) 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.
            (5) In 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.
            (6) 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.
            (7) For construction and furnishing of an additional 
        facility for the P-3B aircraft.
            (8) For operation and maintenance for overhead air coverage 
        for source countries.
            (9) For operation and maintenance for overhead coverage for 
        the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific regions.
            (10) For purchase and for operation and maintenance of 3 
        RU-38A observation aircraft (to be piloted by pilots under 
        contract with the United States).
    (b) Report.--Not later than January 31, 1999, the Secretary of 
Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director 
of Central Intelligence, shall submit to the Committee on National 
Security, the Committee on International Relations, and the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and to 
the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate a report 
examining the options available in the source and transit zones to 
replace Howard Air Force Base in Panama and specifying the requirements 
of the United States to establish an airbase or airbases for use in 
support of counternarcotics operations to optimize operational 
effectiveness in the source and transit zones. The report shall 
identify the following:
            (1) The specific requirements necessary to support the 
        national drug control policy of the United States.
            (2) The estimated construction, operation, and maintenance 
        costs for a replacement counterdrug airbase or airbases in the 
        source and transit zones.
            (3) Possible interagency cost sharing arrangements for a 
        replacement airbase or airbases.
            (4) Any legal or treaty-related issues regarding the 
        replacement airbase or airbases.
            (5) A summary of completed alternative site surveys for the 
        airbase or airbases.
    (c) Transfer of Aircraft.--The Secretary of the Navy shall transfer 
to the United States Customs Service--
            (1) ten currently retired and previously identified 
        heavyweight P-3B aircraft for modification into P-3 AEW&C 
        aircraft; and
            (2) ten currently retired and previously identified 
        heavyweight P-3B aircraft for modification into P-3 Slick 
        aircraft.

  TITLE II--ENHANCED ERADICATION AND INTERDICTION STRATEGY IN SOURCE 
                               COUNTRIES

SEC. 201. ADDITIONAL ERADICATION RESOURCES FOR COLOMBIA.

    (a) Department of State.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated 
for the Department of State for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
the enhancement of drug-related eradication efforts in Colombia in the 
total amount of $201,250,000 which shall be available for the following 
purposes:
            (1) For each such fiscal year for sustaining support of the 
        helicopters and fixed wing fleet of the national police of 
        Colombia.
            (2) For the purchase of DC-3 transport aircraft for the 
        national police of Colombia.
            (3) For acquisition of resources needed for prison security 
        in Colombia.
            (4) For the purchase of minigun systems for the national 
        police of Colombia.
            (5) For the purchase of 6 UH-60L Black Hawk utility 
        helicopters for the national police of Colombia and for 
        operation, maintenance, and training relating to such 
        helicopters.
            (6) For procurement, for upgrade of 50 UH-1H helicopters to 
        the Huey II configuration equipped with miniguns for the use of 
        the national police of Colombia.
            (7) For the repair and rebuilding of the antinarcotics base 
        in southern Colombia.
            (8) For providing sufficient and adequate base and force 
        security for any rebuilt facility in southern Colombia, and the 
        other forward operating antinarcotics bases of the Colombian 
        National Police antinarcotics unit.
    (b) Counternarcotics Assistance.--United States counternarcotics 
assistance may not be provided for the Government of Colombia under 
this Act or under any other provision of law on or after the date of 
enactment of this Act if the Government of Colombia negotiates or 
permits the establishment of any demilitarized zone in which the 
eradication of drug production by the security forces of Colombia, 
including the Colombian National Police antinarcotics unit, is 
prohibited.

SEC. 202. ADDITIONAL ERADICATION RESOURCES FOR PERU.

    (a) Department of State.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated 
for the Department of State for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
the establishment of a third drug interdiction site in Peru to support 
air bridge and riverine missions for enhancement of drug-related 
eradication efforts in Peru, in the total amount of $3,000,000, and an 
additional amount of $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2000 and 2001 
for operation and maintenance.
    (b) Department of Defense Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
conduct a study of Peruvian counternarcotics air interdiction 
requirements and, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, submit to Congress a report on the results of the study. The 
study shall include a review of the Peruvian Air Force's current and 
future requirements for counternarcotics air interdiction to complement 
the Peruvian Air Force's A-37 capability.

SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL ERADICATION RESOURCES FOR BOLIVIA.

    Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State 
for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for enhancement of drug-related 
eradication efforts in Bolivia in the total amount of $17,000,000 which 
shall be available for the following purposes:
            (1) For support of air operations in Bolivia.
            (2) For support of riverine operations in Bolivia.
            (3) For support of coca eradication programs.
            (4) For procurement of 2 mobile x-ray machines, with 
        operation and maintenance support.

SEC. 204. MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIONAL ERADICATION RESOURCES.

    Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State 
for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for enhanced precursor chemical 
control projects, in the total amount of $500,000.

SEC. 205. BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              AFFAIRS.

    (a) Sense of Congress Relating to Professional Qualifications of 
Officials Responsible for International Narcotics Control.--It is the 
sense of Congress that any individual serving in the position of 
assistant secretary in any department or agency of the Federal 
Government who has primary responsibility for international narcotics 
control and law enforcement, and the principal deputy of any such 
assistant secretary, shall have substantial professional qualifications 
in the fields of--
            (1) management; and
            (2) Federal law enforcement or intelligence.
    (b) Foreign Military Sales.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, upon the receipt by the Department of State of a formal 
        letter of request for any foreign military sales 
        counternarcotics-related assistance from the head of any 
        police, military, or other appropriate security agency 
        official, the principle agency responsible for the 
        implementation and processing of the counternarcotics foreign 
        military sales request shall be the Department of Defense.
            (2) Role of state department.--The Department of State 
        shall continue to have a consultative role with the Department 
        of Defense in the processing of the request described in 
        paragraph (1), after receipt of the letter of request, for all 
        counternarcotics-related foreign military sales assistance.
    (c) Sense of Congress Relating to Deficiencies in International 
Narcotics Assistance Activities.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
responsiveness and effectiveness of international narcotics assistance 
activities under the Department of State have been severely hampered 
due, in part, to the lack of law enforcement expertise by responsible 
personnel in the Department of State.

TITLE III--ENHANCED ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN SOURCE ZONE

SEC. 301. ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT.

    Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the United States 
Agency for International Development for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 
2001 for alternative development programs in the total amount of 
$180,000,000 which shall be available as follows:
            (1) In the Guaviare, Putumayo, and Caqueta regions in 
        Colombia.
            (2) In the Ucayali, Apurimac, and Huallaga Valley regions 
        in Peru.
            (3) In the Chapare and Yungas regions in Bolivia.

SEC. 302. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 
              SERVICE COUNTERDRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of Agriculture for each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, 
$23,000,000 to support the counternarcotics research efforts of the 
Agricultural Research Service of the Department of Agriculture. Of that 
amount, funds are authorized as follows:
            (1) $5,000,000 shall be used for crop eradication 
        technologies.
            (2) $2,000,000 shall be used for narcotics plant 
        identification, chemistry, and biotechnology.
            (3) $1,000,000 shall be used for worldwide crop 
        identification, detection tagging, and production estimation 
        technology.
            (4) $5,000,000 shall be used for improving the disease 
        resistance, yield, and economic competitiveness of commercial 
        crops that can be promoted as alternatives to the production of 
        narcotics plants.
            (5) $10,000,000 to contract with entities meeting the 
        criteria described in subsection (b) for the product 
        development, environmental testing, registration, production, 
        aerial distribution system development, product effectiveness 
        monitoring, and modification of multiple mycoherbicides to 
        control narcotic crops (including coca, poppy, and cannabis) in 
        the United States and internationally.
    (b) Criteria for Eligible Entities.--An entity under this 
subsection is an entity which possesses--
            (1) experience in diseases of narcotic crops;
            (2) intellectual property involving seed-borne dispersal 
        formulations;
            (3) the availability of state-of-the-art containment or 
        quarantine facilities;
            (4) country-specific mycoherbicide formulations;
            (5) specialized fungicide resistant formulations; or
            (6) special security arrangements.

SEC. 303. MASTER PLAN FOR MYCOHERBICIDES TO CONTROL NARCOTIC CROPS.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy shall develop a 10-year master plan for the use of 
mycoherbicides to control narcotic crops (including coca, poppy, and 
cannabis) in the United States and internationally.
    (b) Coordination.--The Director shall develop the plan in 
coordination with--
            (1) the Department of Agriculture;
            (2) the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department 
        of Justice;
            (3) the Department of Defense;
            (4) the Environmental Protection Agency;
            (5) the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law 
        Enforcement Activities of the Department of State;
            (6) the United States Information Agency; and
            (7) other appropriate agencies.
    (c) Report.--Not later than March 1, 1999, the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy shall submit to Congress a 
report describing the activities undertaken to carry out this section.

       TITLE IV--ENHANCED INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING

SEC. 401. ENHANCED INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY TRAINING.

    (a) Enhanced International Law Enforcement Academy Training.--Funds 
are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Justice for 
fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for the establishment and operation 
of international law enforcement academies to carry out law enforcement 
training activities in the total amount of $13,400,000 which shall be 
available for the following purposes:
            (1) For the establishment and operation of an academy which 
        shall serve Latin America and the Caribbean.
            (2) For the establishment and operation of an academy in 
        Bangkok, Thailand, which shall serve Asia.
            (3) For the establishment and operation of an academy in 
        South Africa which shall serve Africa.
    (b) Maritime Law Enforcement Training Center.--Funds are authorized 
to be appropriated for the Department of Transportation and the 
Department of the Treasury for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
the joint establishment, operation, and maintenance in San Juan, Puerto 
Rico, of a center for training law enforcement personnel of countries 
located in the Latin American and Caribbean regions in matters relating 
to maritime law enforcement, including customs-related ports management 
matters, as follows:
            (1) For each such fiscal year for funding by the Department 
        of Transportation, $1,500,000.
            (2) For each such fiscal year for funding by the Department 
        of the Treasury, $1,500,000.
    (c) United States Coast Guard International Maritime Training 
Vessel.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of 
Transportation for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for the 
establishment, operation, and maintenance of maritime training vessels 
in the total amount of $15,000,000 which shall be available for the 
following purposes:
            (1) For a vessel for international maritime training, which 
        shall visit participating Latin American and Caribbean nations 
        on a rotating schedule in order to provide law enforcement 
        training and to perform maintenance on participating national 
        assets.
            (2) For support of the United States Coast Guard Balsam 
        Class Buoy Tender training vessel.

SEC. 402. ENHANCED UNITED STATES DRUG ENFORCEMENT INTERNATIONAL 
              TRAINING.

    (a) Mexico.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Justice for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
substantial exchanges for Mexican judges, prosecutors, and police, in 
the total amount of $2,000,000 for each such fiscal year.
    (b) Brazil.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Justice for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
enhanced support for the Brazilian Federal Police Training Center, in 
the total amount of $1,000,000 for each such fiscal year.
    (c) Panama.--
            (1) In general.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated 
        for the Department of Transportation for fiscal years 1999, 
        2000, and 2001 for operation and maintenance, for locating and 
        operating Coast Guard assets so as to strengthen the capability 
        of the Coast Guard of Panama to patrol the Atlantic and Pacific 
        coasts of Panama for drug enforcement and interdiction 
        activities, in the total amount of $1,000,000 for each such 
        fiscal year.
            (2) Eligibility to receive training.--Notwithstanding any 
        other provision of law, members of the national police of 
        Panama shall be eligible to receive training through the 
        International Military Education Training program.
    (d) Venezuela.--There are authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Justice for each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, 
$1,000,000 for operation and maintenance, for support for the 
Venezuelan Judicial Technical Police Counterdrug Intelligence Center.
    (e) Ecuador.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Transportation and the Department of the Treasury for 
each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for the buildup of local 
coast guard and port control in Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, Ecuador, as 
follows:
            (1) For each such fiscal year for the Department of 
        Transportation, $500,000.
            (2) For each such fiscal year for the Department of the 
        Treasury, $500,000.
    (f) Haiti and the Dominican Republic.--Funds are authorized to be 
appropriated for the Department of the Treasury for each of fiscal 
years 1999, 2000, and 2001, $500,000 for the buildup of local coast 
guard and port control in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
    (g) Central America.--There are authorized to be appropriated for 
the Department of the Treasury for each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 
2001, $12,000,000 for the buildup of local coast guard and port control 
in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

SEC. 403. PROVISION OF NONLETHAL EQUIPMENT TO FOREIGN LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              ORGANIZATIONS FOR COOPERATIVE ILLICIT NARCOTICS CONTROL 
              ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may 
transfer or lease each year nonlethal equipment, of which each piece of 
equipment may be valued at not more than $100,000, to foreign law 
enforcement organizations for the purpose of establishing and carrying 
out cooperative illicit narcotics control activities.
    (b) Additional Requirement.--The Administrator shall provide for 
the maintenance and repair of any equipment transferred or leased under 
subsection (a).
    (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) all United States law enforcement personnel serving in 
        Mexico should be accredited the same status under the Vienna 
        Convention on Diplomatic Immunity as other diplomatic personnel 
        serving at United States posts in Mexico; and
            (2) all Mexican narcotics law enforcement personnel serving 
        in the United States should be accorded the same diplomatic 
        status as Drug Enforcement Administration personnel serving in 
        Mexico.

    TITLE V--ENHANCED DRUG TRANSIT AND SOURCE ZONE LAW ENFORCEMENT 
                        OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT

SEC. 501. INCREASED FUNDING FOR OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT; REPORT.

    (a) Drug Enforcement Administration.--Funds are authorized to be 
appropriated for the Drug Enforcement Administration for fiscal years 
1999, 2000, and 2001 for enhancement of counternarcotic operations in 
drug transit and source countries in the total amount of $58,900,000 
which shall be available for the following purposes:
            (1) For support of the Merlin program.
            (2) For support of the intercept program.
            (3) For support of the Narcotics Enforcement Data Retrieval 
        System.
            (4) For support of the Caribbean Initiative.
            (5) For the hire of special agents, administrative and 
        investigative support personnel, and intelligence analysts for 
        overseas assignments in foreign posts.
    (b) Department of State.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated 
for the Department of State for fiscal year 1999, 2000, and 2001 for 
the deployment of commercial unclassified intelligence and imaging data 
and a Passive Coherent Location System for counternarcotics and 
interdiction purposes in the Western Hemisphere, the total amount of 
$20,000,000.
    (c) Department of the Treasury.--Funds are authorized to be 
appropriated for the United States Customs Service for fiscal years 
1999, 2000, and 2001 for enhancement of counternarcotic operations in 
drug transit and source countries in the total amount of $71,500,000 
which shall be available for the following purposes:
            (1) For refurbishment of up to 30 interceptor and Blue 
        Water Platform vessels in the Caribbean maritime fleet.
            (2) For purchase of up to 9 new interceptor vessels in the 
        Caribbean maritime fleet.
            (3) For the hire and training of up to 25 special agents 
        for maritime operations in the Caribbean.
            (4) For purchase of up to 60 automotive vehicles for ground 
        use in South Florida.
            (5) For each such fiscal year for operation and maintenance 
        support for up to 10 United States Customs Service Citations 
        Aircraft to be dedicated for the source and transit zone.
            (6) For purchase of non-intrusive inspection systems 
        consistent with the United States Customs Service 5-year 
        technology plan, including truck x-rays and gamma-imaging for 
        drug interdiction purposes at high-threat seaports and land 
        border ports of entry.
    (d) Department of Defense Report.--Not later than January 31, 1999, 
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy, shall submit to the Committee 
on National Security and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services and 
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate a report examining 
and proposing recommendations regarding any organizational changes to 
optimize counterdrug activities, including alternative cost-sharing 
arrangements regarding the following facilities:
            (1) The Joint Inter-Agency Task Force, East, Key West, 
        Florida.
            (2) The Joint Inter-Agency Task Force, West, Alameda, 
        California.
            (3) The Joint Inter-Agency Task Force, South, Panama City, 
        Panama.
            (4) The Joint Task Force 6, El Paso, Texas.

SEC. 502. FUNDING FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TO FACILITATE 
              DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

    (a) Authorization.--Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the 
development and purchase of computer software and hardware to 
facilitate direct communication between agencies that perform work 
relating to the interdiction of drugs at United States borders, 
including the United States Customs Service, the Border Patrol, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, in the total amount of 
$50,000,000.
    (b) Availability.--Funds authorized pursuant to the authorization 
of appropriations in subsection (a) shall remain available until 
expended.

SEC. 503. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PRIORITY OF DRUG INTERDICTION AND 
              COUNTERDRUG ACTIVITIES.

    It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should 
revise the Global Military Force Policy of the Department of Defense in 
order--
            (1) to treat the international drug interdiction and 
        counter-drug activities of the Department as a military 
        operation other than war, thereby elevating the priority given 
        such activities under the Policy to the next priority below the 
priority given to war under the Policy and to the same priority as is 
given to peacekeeping operations under the Policy; and
            (2) to allocate the assets of the Department to drug 
        interdiction and counter-drug activities in accordance with the 
        priority given those activities.

                  TITLE VI--RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS

SEC. 601. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    The funds authorized to be appropriated for any department or 
agency of the Federal Government for fiscal years 1999, 2000, or 2001 
by this Act are in addition to funds authorized to be appropriated for 
that department or agency for fiscal year 1999, 2000, or 2001 by any 
other provision of law.

        TITLE VII--CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PORT EMPLOYEES

SEC. 701. BACKGROUND CHECKS.

    (a) Background Checks.--Upon the request of any State, county, port 
authority, or other local jurisdiction of a State, the Attorney General 
shall grant to such State, county, port authority, or other local 
jurisdiction access to information collected by the Attorney General 
pursuant to section 534 of title 28, United States Code, for the 
purpose of allowing such State, county, port authority, or other local 
jurisdiction to conduct criminal background checks on employees, or 
applicants for employment, at any port under the jurisdiction of such 
State, county, port authority, or other local jurisdiction.
    (b) Port Defined.--In this section, the term ``port'' means any 
place at which vessels may resort to load or unload cargo.

                 TITLE VIII--DRUG CURRENCY FORFEITURES

SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Drug Currency Forfeitures Act''.

SEC. 802. DRUG CURRENCY FORFEITURES.

    (a) In General.--Section 511 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 881) is amended by inserting after subsection (j) the following:
    ``(k) Rebuttable Presumption.--
            ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection--
                    ``(A) the term `drug trafficking offense' means--
                            ``(i) with respect to an action under 
                        subsection (a)(6), any illegal exchange 
                        involving a controlled substance or other 
                        violation for which forfeiture is authorized 
                        under that subsection; and
                            ``(ii) with respect to an action under 
                        section 981(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States 
                        Code, any offense against a foreign nation 
                        involving the manufacture, importation, sale, 
                        or distribution of a controlled substance for 
                        which forfeiture is authorized under that 
                        section; and
                    ``(B) the term `shell corporation' means any 
                corporation that does not conduct any ongoing and 
                significant commercial or manufacturing business or any 
                other form of commercial operation.
            ``(2) Presumption.--In any action with respect to the 
        forfeiture of property described in subsection (a)(6) of this 
        section, or section 981(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States 
        Code, there is a rebuttable presumption that property is 
        subject to forfeiture, if the Government offers a reasonable 
        basis to believe, based on any circumstance described in 
        subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (3), that there 
        is a substantial connection between the property and a drug 
        trafficking offense.
            ``(3) Circumstances.--The circumstances described in this 
        paragraph are that--
                    ``(A) the property at issue is currency in excess 
                of $10,000 that was, at the time of seizure, being 
                transported through an airport, on a highway, or at a 
                port-of-entry, and--
                            ``(i) the property was packaged or 
                        concealed in a highly unusual manner;
                            ``(ii) the person transporting the property 
                        (or any portion thereof) provided false 
                        information to any law enforcement officer or 
                        inspector who lawfully stopped the person for 
                        investigative purposes or for purposes of a 
                        United States border inspection;
                            ``(iii) the property was found in close 
                        proximity to a measurable quantity of any 
                        controlled substance; or
                            ``(iv) the property was the subject of a 
                        positive alert by a properly trained dog;
                    ``(B) the property at issue was acquired during a 
                period of time when the person who acquired the 
                property was engaged in a drug trafficking offense or 
                within a reasonable time after such period, and there 
                is no likely source for such property other than that 
                offense;
                    ``(C)(i) the property at issue was, or was intended 
                to be, transported, transmitted, or transferred to or 
                from a major drug-transit country, a major illicit drug 
                producing country, or a major money laundering country, 
                as determined pursuant to section 481(e) or 490(h) of 
                the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(e) 
                and 2291j(h)), as applicable; and
                    ``(ii) the transaction giving rise to the 
                forfeiture--
                            ``(I) occurred in part in a foreign country 
                        whose bank secrecy laws render the United 
                        States unable to obtain records relating to the 
                        transaction by judicial process, treaty, or 
                        executive agreement; or
                            ``(II) was conducted by, to, or through a 
                        shell corporation that was not engaged in any 
                        legitimate business activity in the United 
                        States; or
                    ``(D) any person involved in the transaction giving 
                rise to the forfeiture action--
                            ``(i) has been convicted in any Federal, 
                        State, or foreign jurisdiction of a drug 
                        trafficking offense or a felony involving money 
                        laundering; or
                            ``(ii) is a fugitive from prosecution for 
                        any offense described in clause (i).
            ``(4) Other presumptions.--The establishment of the 
        presumption in this subsection shall not preclude the 
        development of other judicially created presumptions, or the 
        establishment of probable cause based on criteria other than 
        those set forth in this subsection.''.
    (b) Money Laundering Forfeitures.--Section 981 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) Rebuttable Presumption.--In any action with respect to the 
forfeiture of property described in subsection (a)(1)(A), there is a 
rebuttable presumption that the property is the proceeds of an offense 
involving the felonious manufacture, importation, receiving, 
concealment, buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in a controlled 
substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act), 
and thus constitutes the proceeds of specified unlawful activity (as 
defined in section 1956(c)), if any circumstance set forth in 
subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) section 511(k)(3) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 881(k)(3)) is present.''.
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