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§886a Diversion Control Fee Account

Title 21 › Chapter 13— DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter I— CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT › Part E— Administrative and Enforcement Provisions › § 886a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

A separate Treasury account called the Diversion Control Fee Account must hold DEA fees starting in fiscal year 1993. All fees the Drug Enforcement Administration collects for running its diversion control program that are over $15,000,000 must be put into that account. The money stays there until spent. Treasury must refund the account at least quarterly to reimburse the DEA for running the program, without separating controlled-substance and chemical expenses. DEA must set fees to cover the full cost of the program. Beginning in fiscal year 1994, refund amounts must follow the Attorney General’s budget estimates, and any changes need 15 days’ notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Diversion control program: DEA’s work on controlling diversion. Controlled substance and chemical diversion control activities: work on registering and controlling manufacture, distribution, dispensing, import, and export of controlled substances and listed chemicals.

Full Legal Text

Title 21, §886a

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(1)There is established in the general fund of the Treasury a separate account which shall be known as the Diversion Control Fee Account. For fiscal year 1993 and thereafter:
(A)There shall be deposited as offsetting receipts into that account all fees collected by the Drug Enforcement Administration, in excess of $15,000,000, for the operation of its diversion control program.
(B)Such amounts as are deposited into the Diversion Control Fee Account shall remain available until expended and shall be refunded out of that account by the Secretary of the Treasury, at least on a quarterly basis, to reimburse the Drug Enforcement Administration for expenses incurred in the operation of the diversion control program. Such reimbursements shall be made without distinguishing between expenses related to controlled substance activities and expenses related to chemical activities.
(C)Fees charged by the Drug Enforcement Administration under its diversion control program shall be set at a level that ensures the recovery of the full costs of operating the various aspects of that program.
(D)The amount required to be refunded from the Diversion Control Fee Account for fiscal year 1994 and thereafter shall be refunded in accordance with estimates made in the budget request of the Attorney General for those fiscal years. Any proposed changes in the amounts designated in said budget requests shall only be made after notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate fifteen days in advance.
(2)In this section:
(A)The term “diversion control program” means the controlled substance and chemical diversion control activities of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
(B)The term “controlled substance and chemical diversion control activities” means those activities related to the registration and control of the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, importation, and exportation of controlled substances and listed chemicals.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993, and not as part of the Controlled Substances Act which comprises this subchapter.

Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–447, § 633(a)(2) to (4), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and inserted heading, substituted “program. Such reimbursements shall be made without distinguishing between expenses related to controlled substance activities and expenses related to chemical activities” for “program” in par. (1)(B), and added par. (2). Pub. L. 108–447, § 633(a)(1), which directed redesignation of pars. (1) to (5) as subpars. (A) to (E) and adjustment of margins, was executed by redesignating pars. (1) to (4) as (A) to (D), respectively, to reflect the probable intent of Congress, because Pub. L. 105–362 struck out par. (5). See 1998 Amendment note below. 1998—Par. (5). Pub. L. 105–362 struck out par. (5) which read as follows: “The Attorney General shall prepare and submit annually to the Congress, statements of financial condition of the account, including the beginning balance, receipts, refunds to appropriations, transfers to the general fund, and the ending balance.”

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Citation

21 U.S.C. § 886a

Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60