§1505a — Title 21 Food and Drugs | U.S. Code

Summary

By December 1 each year, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy must send a report to the President and Congress about how federal agencies are developing and using narcotics detection technology. The Director must prepare the report with input from the Secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, and the Treasury. The report must describe every federal project on narcotics detection tech, say which agency runs each project, show money already spent (in the current or earlier fiscal years) and money expected to be spent in future fiscal years, and give a detailed timeline for putting each project into place.

Title 21, §1505a

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(a)Not later than December 1st of each year, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall submit to Congress and the President a report on the development and deployment of narcotics detection technologies by Federal agencies. Each such report shall be prepared in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of the Treasury.

(b)Each report under subsection (a) shall include—

(1)a description of each project implemented by a Federal agency relating to the development or deployment of narcotics detection technology;

(2)the agency responsible for each project described in paragraph (1);

(3)the amount of funds obligated or expended to carry out each project described in paragraph (1) during the fiscal year in which the report is submitted or during any fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is submitted;

(4)the amount of funds estimated to be obligated or expended for each project described in paragraph (1) during any fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the report is submitted to Congress; and

(5)a detailed timeline for implementation of each project described in paragraph (1).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, and not as part of the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–296 substituted “of Homeland Security” for “of Transportation”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2002 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 107–296 effective on the date of transfer of the Coast Guard to the Department of Homeland Security, see section 1704(g) of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as a note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

§1505a Annual report on development and deployment of narcotics detection technologies