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113 STAT. 1626 PUBLIC LAW 106-120—DEC. 3, 1999 50 USC 401 note. SEC. 712. CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES DEFINED. In this title, the term "congressional intelligence committees" means the following: (1) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. (2) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. TITLE VIII—INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING 21 USC 1901 note. 21 USC 1901. 21 USC 1902. President. 21 USC 1903. SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act". SEC. 802. FINDINGS AND POLICY. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress makes the following findings: (1) Presidential Decision Directive 42, issued on October 21, 1995, ordered agencies of the executive branch of the United States Government to, inter alia, increase the priority and resources devoted to the direct and immediate threat international crime presents to national security, work more closely with other governments to develop a global response to this threat, and use aggressively and creatively all legal means available to combat international crime. (2) Executive Order No. 12978 of October 21, 1995, provides for the use of the authorities in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (lEEPA) (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to target and apply sanctions to four international narcotics traffickers and their organizations that operate from Colombia. (3) lEEPA was successfully applied to international narcotics traffickers in Colombia and based on that successful case study. Congress believes similar authorities should be applied worldwide. (4) There is a national emergency resulting from the activities of international narcotics traffickers and their organizations that threatens the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. (b) POLICY.— It shall be the policy of the United States to apply economic and other financial sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations worldwide to protect the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States from the threat described in subsection (a)(4). SEC. 803. PURPOSE. The purpose of this title is to provide authority for the identification of, and application of sanctions on a worldwide basis to, significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and the foreign persons who provide support to those significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations, whose activities threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. SEC. 804. PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION OF SIGNIFICANT FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND REQUIRED REPORTS. (a) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE PRESIDENT.— The Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary