118 STAT. 3853 PUBLIC LAW 108–458—DEC. 17, 2004 ‘‘(B) describe with particularity how such requested funds would be or could be expended in furtherance of counternarcotics activities; and ‘‘(C) compare such requests with requests for expendi- tures and amounts appropriated by Congress in the pre- vious fiscal year. ‘‘(2) EVALUATION OF COUNTERNARCOTICS ACTIVITIES.—The Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement shall, not later than February 1 of each year, submit to the Commit- tees on Appropriations and the authorizing committees of juris- diction of the House of Representatives and the Senate a review and evaluation of the counternarcotics activities of the Depart- ment for the previous fiscal year. The review and evaluation shall— ‘‘(A) describe the counternarcotics activities of the Department and each subdivision of the Department (whether individually or in cooperation with other subdivi- sions of the Department, or in cooperation with other branches of the Federal Government or with State or local agencies), including the methods, procedures, and systems (including computer systems) for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and disseminating information concerning nar- cotics activity within the Department and between the Department and other Federal, State, and local agencies; ‘‘(B) describe the results of those activities, using quan- tifiable data whenever possible; ‘‘(C) state whether those activities were sufficient to meet the responsibility of the Department to stop the entry of illegal drugs into the United States, including a descrip- tion of the performance measures of effectiveness that were used in making that determination; and ‘‘(D) recommend, where appropriate, changes to those activities to improve the performance of the Department in meeting its responsibility to stop the entry of illegal drugs into the United States. ‘‘(3) CLASSIFIED OR LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE INFORMA- TION.—Any content of a review and evaluation described in the reports required in this subsection that involves information classified under criteria established by an Executive order, or whose public disclosure, as determined by the Secretary, would be detrimental to the law enforcement or national secu- rity activities of the Department or any other Federal, State, or local agency, shall be presented to Congress separately from the rest of the review and evaluation.’’. (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 103(a) of the Home- land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 113(a)) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (8) and (9) as paragraphs (9) and (10), respectively; and (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following: ‘‘(8) A Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforce- ment.’’. (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Of the amounts appro- priated for the Department of Homeland Security for Departmental management and operations for fiscal year 2005, there is authorized up to $6,000,000 to carry out section 878 of the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2002. Deadline. VerDate 11-MAY-2000 13:54 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00387 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.001 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4
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