[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 259 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 259

To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up 
                     methamphetamine laboratories.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2005

Mr. Johnson (for himself and Mr. Thomas) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up 
                     methamphetamine laboratories.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup 
Funding Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FROM TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND.

    Chapter 97 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 9703 (as added by Public Law 
        103-62) as section 9703A;
            (2) by moving section 9703 (as added by Public Law 102-393) 
        so as to appear after section 9702; and
            (3) in section 9703(a)(1), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(K)(i) Payment to the designated State, local, or 
                tribal law enforcement, environmental, or health entity 
                for experts and consultants needed to clean up any area 
                formerly used as a methamphetamine laboratory.
                    ``(ii) If a methamphetamine laboratory is located 
                on private property, not more than 90 percent of the 
                costs may be paid only if--
                            ``(I) the property owner did not have 
                        knowledge of the existence or operation of such 
                        laboratory before the law enforcement action to 
                        close it; or
                            ``(II) the property owner notifies law 
                        enforcement not later than 24 hours after 
                        discovering the existence of such 
                        laboratory.''.
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