22 U.S.C. § 262p–4a: Loan programs to reduce…

Summary

Requires the Treasury Secretary to tell the U.S. representatives at the World Bank (IBRD) and the Inter‑American Development Bank to start talks with other board members and push for country loan programs that help places that grow or traffic illegal drugs stop relying on that work. Examples of the kinds of loans and projects to support include crop replacement, roads that open markets for legal goods, basic infrastructure, job‑creating development projects, farm support services, and region‑specific development plans. Congress says illegal narcotics threaten Americans and that international development banks should fund and coordinate economic alternatives in producer and trafficking areas. The Treasury must also ask those U.S. bank directors to encourage coordination with other international and bilateral aid programs aimed at reducing local dependence on drug production and trafficking.

Title 22, §262p–4a

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(a)Findings

The Congress finds that—

(1)the illicit narcotics epidemic currently afflicting the United States represents a direct threat to the well-being of every United States citizen;

(2)every effective means must be pursued to reduce the foreign production and subsequent importation into the United States of illicit narcotics;

(3)the multilateral development banks can play an integral role in efforts to control the production of illicit narcotics;

(4)producer country narcotics eradication programs will not be effective unless such programs provide an economic alternative to the production of narcotics;

(5)efforts to address the illicit narcotics epidemic through production control are doomed to failure unless greater effort is applied to curb use of and demand for illicit narcotics; and

(6)the appropriate role for the multilateral development banks in the “War Against Drugs” is through coordinating and financing alternative economic opportunities in producer and trafficking countries.

(b)Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit narcotics

The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank to initiate discussions with other executive directors of such institutions and to advocate and support the creation, within such institutions, of specific country lending programs and policies (including crop substitution, creation of roads conducive to the expansion of markets for licit goods, other infrastructure development measures such as development projects generating employment, agricultural extension assistance, and region-specific development plans) which are particularly oriented to reducing or eliminating the economic dependence of regions of borrowing countries known to be areas in which illicit narcotics are produced or trafficked, on such production and trafficking.

(c)Coordination among assistance programs designed to reduce economic dependency on illicit narcotics

In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank to encourage such institutions to provide coordination among other multilateral and bilateral assistance programs designed to reduce the economic dependence of regions of borrowing countries known to be areas in which illicit narcotics are produced or trafficked, on such production and trafficking.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification section 1606 of Pub. L. 95–118 is based on section 6 of H.R. 4645, One Hundredth Congress, as reported Sept. 28, 1988, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–461.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1606 of Pub. L. 95–118 was renumbered section 1622 and is classified to section 262p–5 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions The definitions in section 262p–5 of this title apply to this section.

§262p–4a Loan Programs to Reduce Economic Dependence on Illicit Narcotics