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The President has sent the Congress a request for $250 million
in supplemental appropriations this year to intensify our
Nation's drug law enforcement, treatment, and prevention
efforts. The request for fiscal 1996 would fund the following
high impact initiatives focusing on emerging drug problems and
issues:
$202 million to reinforce drug supply reduction
programs including: $42 million to enhance
source-nation interdiction efforts, especially along
the air bridge linking the coca growing areas in Peru
with the processing labs in Colombia; $98 million to
upgrade two excess Navy P-3B aircraft to patrol both
the air bridge and transit zone; $15 million to
increase patrols around Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands; $6 million to place nonintrusive inspection
devices along the Southwest Border to detect drugs
hidden in vehicle compartments; $27 million to augment
domestic law enforcement activities, such as
methamphetamine enforcement and crushing open air drug
markets; and $14 million to enhance drug intelligence
activities and emerging requirements; and
$48 million to enhance drug demand reduction programs,
including: implementing a media campaign and outreach
program to increase youth awareness on drug abuse;
linking the criminal justice system with drug
treatment programs, so that criminal offenders can
receive immediate drug treatment; and accelerating
promising medical cocaine research, particularly the
development of a vaccine that destroys cocaine in the
blood stream.
This request comes pursuant to the plan developed by General
Barry McCaffrey of the Office of National Drug Control Policy,
consistent with the President's instructions to him at his
swearing-in ceremony.
The Administration proposes to fully offset the $250 million
requested by rescissions from funds available to the Department
of Defense. The funds proposed for rescission, totaling
$400 million, exceed DOD's requirements. There will be no
impact on defense readiness.