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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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)
(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.
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