§ 1713. Authorization of use of environmentally-approved herbicides to eliminate illicit narcotics crops

Statutory text

The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are authorized to support the development and use of environmentally-approved herbicides to eliminate illicit narcotics crops, including coca, cannabis, and opium poppy, both in the United States and in foreign countries.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1998
Pub. L. 105–277 div. C title VIII § 834 · 112 Stat. 2681
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 1713
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VIII, § 834, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–702.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VIII, § 834, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–702.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 834. AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY-APPROVED HERBICIDES TO ELIMINATE ILLICIT NARCOTICS CROPS. The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are authorized to support the development and use of environmentally-approved herbicides to eliminate illicit narcotics crops, including coca, cannabis, and opium poppy, both in the United States and in foreign countries.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act, and not as part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VIII, § 834, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–702.)