[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 11, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 47973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-19661]


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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Office of National Drug Control Policy


Designation of Eleven Areas as High Intensity Drug Trafficking 
Areas

AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

ACTION: Notice of HIDTA Designations.

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SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
designated 13 additional areas as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas 
(HIDTA) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 1706(b)(1). The new areas are (1) 
Anderson County in Tennessee, Boyd County in Kentucky, and Fayette 
County in West Virginia as part of the Appalachia HIDTA; (2) Floyd 
County in Georgia as part of the Atlanta/Carolinas HIDTA; (3) Allen 
County in Indiana as part of the Indiana HIDTA (4) Gloucester County in 
New Jersey and Bucks County in Pennsylvania as part of the Liberty Mid-
Atlantic HIDTA; (5) Oswego County in New York as part of the New York/
New Jersey HIDTA; (6) Olmsted and St. Louis Counties in Minnesota as 
part of the North Central HIDTA (7) Josephine County in Oregon as part 
of the Oregon/Idaho HIDTA and (8) Worcester County in Maryland and 
Warren County in Virginia as part of the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA. 
The Director of ONDCP also removed six areas as HIDTAs pursuant to 21 
U.S.C. 1706(c), effective September 10, 2019. The six areas removed 
from HIDTA designation are (1) Breathitt and McCreary Counties in 
Kentucky and Macon and Unicoi Counties in Tennessee as part of the 
Appalachia HIDTA; (2) Marion County in Missouri as part of the Midwest 
HIDTA; and (3) the Confederated Tribe of Warm Springs Reservation in 
Oregon as part of the Oregon-Idaho HIDTA. The Executive Boards of each 
of these HIDTAs requested removal of these areas from designation after 
assessing the threat and determining that these areas no longer met the 
statutory criteria necessary for designation as HIDTA counties. ONDCP 
evaluated and accepted the request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding this notice should 
be directed to Shannon Kelly, National HIDTA Program Director, Office 
of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, 
Washington, DC 20503; (202) 395-5872.

    Dated: September 6, 2019.
Michael J. Passante,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2019-19661 Filed 9-10-19; 8:45 am]
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