118 STAT. 3852 PUBLIC LAW 108–458—DEC. 17, 2004 ‘‘(2) LIAISONS.—The Secretary shall designate senior employees from each appropriate subdivision of the Department that has significant counternarcotics responsibilities to act as a liaison between that subdivision and the Office of Counter- narcotics Enforcement. ‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON CONCURRENT EMPLOYMENT.—Except as pro- vided in subsection (d), the Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement shall not be employed by, assigned to, or serve as the head of, any other branch of the Federal Government, any State or local government, or any subdivision of the Department other than the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement. ‘‘(d) ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS THE UNITED STATES INTERDICTION COORDINATOR.—The Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement may be appointed as the United States Interdiction Coordinator by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and shall be the only person at the Department eligible to be so appointed. ‘‘(e) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Secretary shall direct the Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement— ‘‘(1) to coordinate policy and operations within the Depart- ment, between the Department and other Federal departments and agencies, and between the Department and State and local agencies with respect to stopping the entry of illegal drugs into the United States; ‘‘(2) to ensure the adequacy of resources within the Depart- ment for stopping the entry of illegal drugs into the United States; ‘‘(3) to recommend the appropriate financial and personnel resources necessary to help the Department better fulfill its responsibility to stop the entry of illegal drugs into the United States; ‘‘(4) within the Joint Terrorism Task Force construct to track and sever connections between illegal drug trafficking and terrorism; and ‘‘(5) to be a representative of the Department on all task forces, committees, or other entities whose purpose is to coordi- nate the counternarcotics enforcement activities of the Depart- ment and other Federal, State or local agencies. ‘‘(f) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this section shall be con- strued to authorize direct control of the operations conducted by the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security, the Coast Guard, or joint terrorism task forces. ‘‘(g) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— ‘‘(1) ANNUAL BUDGET REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement shall, not later than 30 days after the submission by the President to Congress of any request for expenditures for the Department, submit to the Committees on Appropriations and the authorizing committees of jurisdiction of the House of Representatives and the Senate a review and evaluation of such request. The review and evalua- tion shall— ‘‘(A) identify any request or subpart of any request that affects or may affect the counternarcotics activities of the Department or any of its subdivisions, or that affects the ability of the Department or any subdivision of the Department to meet its responsibility to stop the entry of illegal drugs into the United States; VerDate 11-MAY-2000 13:54 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00386 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.001 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4
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