§1494a — Title 48 Territories and Insular Possessions | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must send Congress a yearly report about how well federal agencies are stopping illegal drugs. The report has two parts: one about illegal drug entry from U.S. insular areas outside the U.S. customs territory, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and states freely associated with the United States; and one about illegal drug entry from other countries (including those same freely associated states) into U.S. territories, the Trust Territory, and commonwealths, whether the drugs are used there or shipped on to the United States. The report says what kinds of entries happen and how much. These annual reports must go to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources by October 1 each year.

Title 48, §1494a

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(a)The President shall report annually to the Congress as to—

(1)the efforts and success of Federal agencies in preventing the illegal entry into the United States of controlled substances from the insular areas of the United States outside the customs territory of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and states freely associated with the United States and the nature and extent of such illegal entry, and

(2)the efforts and success of Federal agencies in preventing the illegal entry from other nations, including states freely associated with the United States, of controlled substances into the United States territories, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the commonwealths for use in the territories, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and commonwealths or for transshipment to the United States and the nature and extent of such illegal entry and use.

(b)The annual reports required by subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate not later than the first day of October each year.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” before “of the United States House”. 1988—Pub. L. 100–690 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and inserted heading, inserted “, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,” before “and states” in par. (1) and after “territories” in two places in par. (2), and added subsec. (b).

Executive Documents

Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of this title.

§1494a Annual reports to Congress