[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 42 (Wednesday, April 5, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2914-S2915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. McCAIN (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, and Ms. Cantwell):
  S. 2552. A bill to amend the Omnibus Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to clarify that Indian tribes are eligible to receive grants for 
confronting the use of methamphetamine, and for other purposes; to the 
Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I am joined today by Senators Dorgan and 
Cantwell in introducing a bill to amend the recently passed PATRIOT Act 
reauthorization to ensure that Indian tribes are eligible for Federal 
methamphetamine-related grants. The legislation would allow tribes, 
like States, to receive grants to reduce the availability of meth in 
hot spot areas; grants for programs for drug-endangered children; and 
grants to address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women 
offenders.
  The scourge of methamphetamine has afflicted much of our Nation, and 
it has had particularly devastating effects on Indian reservations. The 
problem of meth in Indian country, which the National Congress of 
American Indians identified this year as its top priority, is 
ubiquitous, and has strained already overburdened law enforcement, 
health, social welfare, housing, and child protective and placement 
services on Indian reservations. Last week a former tribal judge on the 
Wind River Reservation in Wyoming pled guilty to conspiracy to 
distribute methamphetamine and other drugs. The day before, the Navajo 
Nation police arrested an 81 year old grandmother, her daughter, and 
her granddaughter, for selling meth. One tribe in Arizona had over 60 
babies born last year with meth in their systems. At a hearing in the 
Senate Indian Affairs Committee last month on child abuse, witnesses 
testified that methamphetamine is a significant cause of abuse and 
neglect of Indian children. Last year, the National Indian Housing 
Council expanded its training for dealing with meth in tribal housing: 
the average cost of decontaminating a single residence that has been 
used a meth lab is $10,000. Meth is affecting every aspect of tribal 
life and something must be done.
  The measure I am introducing today takes but a small step on the long 
journey toward ridding Indian country of the blight of methamphetamine. 
I encourage my colleagues to support it. I ask unanimous consent that 
the text of the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 2552

       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 ``Indian Tribes 
     Methamphetamine Reduction Grants Act of 2006''.

     SEC. 2. INDIAN TRIBES PARTICIPATION IN METHAMPHETAMINE 
                   GRANTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 2996(a) of the Omnibus Crime 
     Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting 
     ``and Indian tribes (as defined in section 2704)'' after ``to 
     assist States''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, Tribal,'' before 
     ``and local'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``and Indian tribes'' 
     after ``make grants to States''; and
       (3) in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting ``, Tribal,'' after 
     ``support State''.
       (b) Grant Programs for Drug Endangered Children.--Section 
     755(a) of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act 
     of 2005 (Public Law 109-177) is amended by inserting ``and 
     Indian tribes (as defined in section 2704 of the Omnibus 
     Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
     3797d))'' after ``make grants to States''.
       (c) Grant Programs to Address Methamphetamine Use by 
     Pregnant and Parenting Women Offenders.--Section 756 of the 
     USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 
     (Public Law 109-177) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting ``, territorial, or 
     Tribal'' after ``State'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by inserting ``, territorial, or Tribal'' after 
     ``State''; and
       (ii) by striking ``and/or'' and inserting ``or'';
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) by inserting ``, territory, or Indian tribe'' after 
     ``agency of the State''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``, territory, or Indian tribe'' after 
     ``criminal laws of that State''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Indian tribe.--The term `Indian tribe' has the same 
     meaning as in section 2704 of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
     Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797d)).''; and
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``Indian Tribe'' and 
     inserting ``Indian tribe''; and
       (B) in paragraph (4)--
       (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--

       (I) by striking ``State's services'' and inserting 
     ``services of the State, territory, or Tribe''; and

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       (II) by striking ``and/or'' and inserting ``or'';

       (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``State'';
       (iii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, Indian 
     tribes,'' after ``involved counties''; and
       (iv) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ``, Tribal'' after 
     ``Federal, State''.
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