[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 46 (Monday, November 22, 1993)]
[Pages 2386-2388]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12880--National Drug Control Program

 November 16, 1993

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy has the lead 
responsibility within the Executive Office of the President to establish 
policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control 
program, with the goal of

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reducing the production, availability, and use of illegal drugs. All 
lawful and reasonable means must be used to ensure that the United 
States has a comprehensive and effective National Drug Control Strategy.
    Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the 
National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988, as amended (21 U.S.C. 1501 et 
seq.), and in order to provide for the effective management of the drug 
abuse policies of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. General Provisions. (a) Because the United States 
considers the operations of international criminal narcotics syndicates 
as a national security threat requiring an extraordinary and coordinated 
response by civilian and military agencies involved in national 
security, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
(Director), in his role as the principal adviser to the National 
Security Council on national drug control policy (50 U.S.C. 402(f)), 
shall provide drug policy guidance and direction in the development of 
related national security programs.
    (b) The Director shall provide oversight and direction for all 
international counternarcotics policy development and implementation, in 
coordination with other concerned Cabinet members, as appropriate.
    (c) An Interagency Working Group (IWG) on international 
counternarcotics policy, chaired by the Department of State, shall 
develop and ensure coordinated implementation of an international 
counternarcotics policy. The IWG shall report its activities and 
differences of views among agencies to the Director for review, 
mediation, and resolution with concerned Cabinet members, and if 
necessary, by the President.
    (d) A coordinator for drug interdiction shall be designated by the 
Director to ensure that assets dedicated by Federal drug program 
agencies for interdiction are sufficient and that their use is properly 
integrated and optimized. The coordinator shall ensure that interdiction 
efforts and priorities are consistent with overall U.S. international 
counternarcotics policy.
    (e) The Director shall examine the number and structure of command/
control and drug intelligence centers operated by drug control program 
agencies involved in international counternarcotics and suggest 
improvements to the current structure for consideration by the President 
and concerned members of the Cabinet.
    (f) The Director, utilizing the services of the Drugs and Crime Data 
Center and Department of Justice Clearinghouse, shall assist in 
coordinating and enhancing the dissemination of statistics and studies 
relating to anti-drug abuse policy.
    (g) The Director shall provide advice to agencies regarding ways to 
achieve efficiencies in spending and improvements to interagency 
cooperation that could enhance the delivery of drug control treatment 
and prevention services to the public. The Director may request agencies 
to provide studies, information, and analyses in support of this order.
    Sec. 2. Goals, Direction, Duties and Responsibilities with Respect 
to the National Drug Control Program. (a) Budget Matters. (1) In 
addition to the budgetary authorities and responsibilities provided to 
the Director by statute, 21 U.S.C. 1502, for those agency budget 
requests that are not certified as adequate to implement the objectives 
of the National Drug Control Strategy, the Director shall include in 
such certifications initiatives or funding levels that would make such 
requests adequate.
    (2) The Director shall provide, by July 1 of each year, budget 
recommendations to the heads of departments and agencies with 
responsibilities under the National Drug Control Program. The 
recommendations shall apply to the second following fiscal year and 
address funding priorities developed in the annual National Drug Control 
Strategy.
    (b) Measurement of National Drug Control Strategy Outcomes. (1) The 
National Drug Control Strategy shall include long-range goals for 
reducing drug use and the consequences of drug use in the United States, 
including burdens on hospital emergency rooms, drug use among arrestees, 
the extent of drug-related crime, high school dropout rates, the number 
of infants exposed annually to illicit drugs in utero, national drug 
abuse treatment capacity, and the annual national health care costs of 
drug use.

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    (2) The National Drug Control Strategy shall also include an 
assessment of the quality of techniques and instruments to measure 
current drug use and supply and demand reduction activities, and the 
adequacy of the coverage of existing national drug use instruments and 
techniques to measure the total illicit drug user population and groups 
at-risk for drug use.
    (3) The Director shall coordinate an effort among the relevant drug 
control program agencies to assess the quality, access, management, 
effectiveness, and standards of accountability of drug abuse treatment, 
prevention, education, and other demand reduction activities.
    (c) Provision of Reports. To the extent permitted by law, heads of 
departments and agencies with responsibilities under the National Drug 
Control Program shall make available to the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, appropriate statistics, studies, and reports, pertaining 
to Federal drug abuse control.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 16, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:49 a.m., November 17, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on November 18, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on November 18.