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[CITE: 21USC886]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
              CHAPTER 13--DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
 
            Part E--Administrative and Enforcement Provisions
 
Sec. 886. Payments and advances


(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.\1\
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(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.

(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.)

                          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.


                               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.''
