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Agency Budget Summary
Department of the Interior
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- Budget requests for drug enforcement are based on necessary funding to support staffing, training, equipment, aircraft surveillance, and other related operational costs. Funding is requested to maintain a level of presence on Service-owned lands in order to detect, eradicate, and provide a level of deterrence. Funds also help support interdiction efforts at Southwest refuges and by wildlife inspection at ports of entry.
III. Program Summary
- Refuge officers, to include wildlife inspectors, work closely with other agencies and task forces on the Southwest Border National Wildlife Refuges. Cooperation is especially close with the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs, and Drug Enforcement Administration.
- Activities include the following:
- Work together with local law enforcement agencies to apprehend persons cultivating marijuana on National Wildlife Refuge lands.
- Investigations target methamphetamine laboratory activity detected on Southwest Border refuges.
- Emphasis is placed on locating and eliminating drug use on National Wildlife Refuges, including emphasis on drug use among hunters.
- Coordinate special checkpoints on refuge tour routes and during hunting programs with local law enforcement agencies.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The FY 1999 program includes $0.625 million to support Goal 4 of the Strategy. Refuge officers will work closely with other agencies and task forces on the Southwest Border National Wildlife Refuges and wildlife inspectors work closely with U.S. Customs at port of entry.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The FY 1999 program includes $0.375 million to support Goal 5 of the Strategy. Service refuge officers and special agents will focus their efforts on marijuana eradication. Investigations of methamphetamine laboratory activity on Southwest Border National Wildlife Refuges will be initiated.
2000 Request
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The total drug control request for Goal 4 activities for FY 2000 is $0.625 million, the same as the FY 1999 enacted level.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The total drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 2000 is $0.375 million, the same as the FY 1999 enacted level.
V. Program Accomplishments
- During FY 1998, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, utilizing its own Refuge officers along with support from other federal agencies, conducted 346 drug investigations which resulted in the arrest of 193 people charged with drug violations, and in the seizure of 3,884 pounds of cocaine and 52,707 pounds of marijuana.
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