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21 USC Sec. 886 01/22/02
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TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION
AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND
ENFORCEMENT
Part E - Administrative and
Enforcement Provisions
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Sec. 886. Payments and advances
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(a) Payment
to informers
The Attorney General
is authorized to pay any person, from funds appropriated
for the Drug Enforcement Administration, for information
concerning a violation of this subchapter, such sum or sums
of money as he may deem appropriate, without reference to any moieties
or rewards to which such person may otherwise be entitled by
law.
(b) Reimbursement
for purchase of controlled substances
Moneys expended from
appropriations of the Drug Enforcement Administration
for purchase of controlled substances and subsequently
recovered shall be reimbursed to the current appropriation
for the Administration. (FOOTNOTE 1)
(FOOTNOTE 1) See Codification
note below.
(c) Advance
of funds for enforcement purposes
The Attorney General
is authorized to direct the advance of funds by
the Treasury Department in connection with the enforcement of this
subchapter.
(d) Drug Pollution
Fund
(1) There is established
in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the ''Drug Pollution Fund''
(hereinafter referred to in this subsection as the ''Fund''), consisting
of amounts appropriated or credited to such Fund under section 841(b)(6)
of this title.
(2) There are hereby appropriated
to the Fund amounts equivalent to the fines imposed under section
841(b)(6) of this title.
(3) Amounts in the Fund
shall be available, as provided in appropriations Acts, for the purpose
of making payments in accordance with paragraph (4) for the clean
up of certain pollution resulting from the actions referred to in
section 841(b)(6) of this title.
(4)(A) The Secretary of
the Treasury, after consultation with the Attorney
General, shall make payments under paragraph (3), in such amounts
as the Secretary determines appropriate, to the heads of executive
agencies or departments that meet the requirements of subparagraph
(B).
(B) In order to receive
a payment under paragraph (3), the head of an executive agency or
department shall submit an application in such form and containing
such information as the Secretary of the Treasury shall by regulation
require. Such application shall contain a description of the fine
imposed under section 841(b)(6) of this title, the circumstances
surrounding the imposition of such fine, and the type and severity
of pollution that resulted from the actions to which such fine applies.
(5) For purposes of subchapter
B of chapter 98 of title 26, the Fund
established under this paragraph shall be treated in the same manner
as a trust fund established under subchapter A of such chapter.
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(Pub. L. 91-513, title II,
Sec. 516, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1279; Pub.
L. 96-132, Sec. 16(b), Nov. 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 1049; Pub. L. 100-690,
title VI, Sec. 6254(i), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4367.)
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CODIFICATION
In subsec. (b), ''Administration''
substituted for ''Bureau'' as the
probable intent of Congress in view of amendment by Pub. L. 96-132,
which substituted references to the Drug Enforcement Administration
for references to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs wherever appearing in text.
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AMENDMENTS
1988 - Subsec. (d). Pub.
L. 100-690 added subsec. (d). 1979
- Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 96-132 substituted ''Drug Enforcement
Administration'' for ''Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs''.
REIMBURSEMENT
BY DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF EXPENSES
INCURRED TO REMEDIATE
METHAMPHETAMINE LABORATORIES
Pub. L. 106-310, div. B,
title XXXVI, Sec. 3672, Oct. 17, 2000, 114
Stat. 1246, provided that:
''(a) Reimbursement Authorized.
- The Attorney General, acting through
the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, may
reimburse States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments,
other public entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional
consortia thereof for expenses incurred to clean up and safely
dispose of substances associated with clandestine methamphetamine
laboratories which may present a danger to public health
or the environment.
''(b) Additional DEA Personnel.
- From amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General
may hire not more than five additional Drug Enforcement Administration
personnel to administer this section.
''(c) Authorization of
Appropriations. - There is authorized to be
appropriated to the Attorney General to carry out this section $20,000,000
for fiscal year 2001.''
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