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 PUBLIC LAW 99-570—OCT. 27, 1986

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and the Coast Guard, currently lack the aircraft, ships, radar, command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) system, and manpower resources necessary to mount a comprehensive attack on the narcotics traffickers who threaten the United States; (6) the civilian drug interdiction agencies of the United States are currently interdicting only a small percentage of the illegal, drug smuggler penetrations in the United States every year; (7) the budgets for our civilian drug interdiction agencies, primarily the United States Customs Service and the Coast Guard, have not kept pace with those of the traditional investigative law enforcement agencies of the Department of Justice; and (8) since the amendment of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. 1385) in 1981, the Department of Defense has assisted in the effort to interdict drugs, but they can do more.

SEC. 3003. PURPOSES.



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21 USC 801 note.

It is the purpose of this title— (1) to increase the level of funding and resources available to j; civilian drug interdiction agencies of the Federal Government; (2) to increase the level of support from the Department of Defense as consistent with the Posse Comitatus Act, for interdiction of the narcotics traffickers before such traffickers penetrate the borders of the United States; and (3) to improve other drug interdiction programs of the Federal Government. Subtitle A—Department of Defense Drug Interdiclion Assistance SEC. 3051. SHORT TITLE.

This subtitle may be cited as the "Defense Drug Interdiction Assistance Act". SEC. 3052. AUTHORIZATION. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR ENHANCED DRUG INTERDICTION ACTIVITIES.—Funds are hereby authorized to be appro-

priated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1987 for enhancement of drug interdiction assistance activities of the Department as follows: (1) For procurement of aircraft for the Navy, $138,000,000, to be available for (A) the refurbishment and upgrading, for drug interdiction purposes, of four existing E-2C Hawkeye surveillance aircraft or any other aircraft of the Navy which the Secretary considers better suited than E-2C Hawkeye surveil& lance aircraft to perform the drug interdiction mission, and (B) > f the procurement of four replacement aircraft (of the same type of aircraft refurbished and upgraded under the authorization in »( this paragraph) and related spares for the Navy. f (2) For procurement of seven radar aerostats, $99,500,000. sr (3) For procurement of eight Blackhawk helicopters, $40,000,000. (b) LOAN OF EQUIPMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.—(1)(A)

The Secretary of Defense shall make two of the existing aircraft refurbished and upgraded under subsection (a)(1) available to the Customs Service and the other two of such existing aircraft available to the Coast Guard.

Defense Drug Interdiction f.^^l^^^'VS?. note. 10 USC 371 ^^^:

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