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Agency Budget Summary
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Operations
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- All resources are 100 percent drug-related.
III. Program Summary
- The ONDCP provides the President's primary Executive Branch support for drug policy development and program oversight. ONDCP advises the President on national and international drug control policies and strategies, and works to ensure the effective coordination of drug programs within the federal Agencies and Departments. ONDCP responsibilities include:
- Developing an annual Strategy.
- Developing a consolidated National Drug Control Budget for presentation to the President and the Congress (including budget certifications).
- The PME system will be refined as data inputs improve in quality. Trend data will be reported and preliminary identifications made of areas in need of in-depth evaluation. New databases will result in new information for the Information Management System. Implementation plans will be refined as collaborative intergovernmental efforts come into play as we draw on experiences learned through our Performance Partnerships.
- Certifying the budgets of programs, Bureaus, Agencies, and Departments.
- Evaluating Program Effectiveness -- ONDCP is required to include in each Strategy an evaluation of the effectiveness of federal drug control during the preceding year.
- Coordinating and overseeing federal anti-drug policies and programs involving approximately 50 federal agencies and the programs they administer.
- Encouraging private-sector, state, and local drug prevention and control programs.
- Conducting policy analysis and research to determine the effectiveness of drug programs and policies in addressing the Strategy's goals, priorities, and objectives.
- Designating High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) and providing overall policy guidance and oversight for the award of resources to federal, state, and local law enforcement partnerships in these areas.
- Operating the Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC) to serve as the central counterdrug enforcement research and development center for the federal government.
- Developing and overseeing a National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign that will be a multi-faceted communications campaign that harnesses the energies of parents, mass media, corporate America, and community anti-drug coalitions. This campaign will emphasize that prevention can work and will seek to empower parents to discuss this critical subject with their children.
- Overseeing the Drug-Free Communities Program which will serve as a catalyst for increased citizen participation to reduce substance abuse among our youth and provide community anti-drug coalitions with much needed funds to carry out their important missions.
- Funds for the HIDTA program and the Special Forfeiture Fund (SFF) are discussed elsewhere in this volume.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The FY 1999 program includes $50.2 million which supports all five goals of the Strategy.
- The Office of Supply Reduction is responsible for advising the Director on policies and programs to reduce the supply of drugs and ensuring the implementation of the supply reduction programs in support of the goals and objectives of the Strategy. The Office of Supply Reduction supports the interdiction and international functions.
- The Office of Demand Reduction is responsible for advising the Director on policies and programs to reduce the demand for drugs and ensuring the implementation of the demand-related portions of the Strategy. The Office of Demand Reduction supports the prevention and treatment functions.
- The Bureau of State and Local Affairs (BSLA) coordinates ONDCP relationship and outreach efforts to state and local government agencies as well as public interest groups. In addition, BSLA promotes coordination among federal programs in cooperation with State and local counter-drug programs, including overseeing the HIDTA Program. Specifically, the Bureau of State and Local Affairs supports the state and local assistance function.
- The Office of Programs, Budget, Research, and Evaluation is responsible for coordinating the Performance Measurement System and conducting research and analysis on drug-related program and policy issues. OPBRE is also responsible for developing and monitoring implementation of a government-wide consolidated Drug Control Budget and presenting the Drug Control Budget to the President, the Congress, and the public.
- Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC) provides new technology to improve federal agency counter-drug enforcement operations, as well as drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation research missions. CTAC supports the research and development function.
- Other offices within ONDCP which support the counter-drug efforts include: the Office of Administration; the Office of Financial Management (FMO); the Office of Public Affairs (OPA); the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); the Office of Strategic Planning (OSP); the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA); and the Office of Intelligence (OI). The Office of Administration (OA) provides administrative support for ONDCP. The Office of Financial Management is responsible for the oversight of all ONDCP financial related areas. TheOffice of Public Affairs serves as a liaison between ONDCP and the media. The Office of Legal Counsel is responsible for advising the Director and ONDCP staff regarding the scope and effect of the legal authority of the Director and the agency. The Office of Strategic Planning coordinates the Strategy, develops or reviews all significant public policy statements, prepares the Director's briefings and supports his public speaking engagements. The Office of Legislative Affairs is ONDCP's liaison with the Congress, the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, and the legislative offices of more than fifty federal agencies involved in implementing the Strategy.
2000 Request
- The total FY 2000 ONDCP budget request is $43.1 million, a decrease of $7.1 million from the FY 1999 enacted level. This change in funding consists of an increase of $2.8 million to support continuing office operations, and a reduction of $10.0 million in funding associated with CTAC's technology transfer program.
V. Program Accomplishments
- ONDCP has led the interagency development and implementation of the comprehensive long-term Strategy.
- ONDCP has worked with other federal agencies and has developed a supporting five-year budget plan for ONDCP's ten year strategy.
- Ongoing ONDCP initiatives with the objective of reversing negative youth drug use include:
- National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. ONDCP will continue the initiative begun in FY 1998 that uses paid media messages to change youth attitudes about drug use and its consequences. Targeted, high impact, paid media ads -- at both the national and local levels -- are the most cost effective, quickest means of changing drug use behavior through changes in adolescent perceptions of the danger and social disapproval of drugs. Additional program accomplishments are detailed under the Special Forfeiture Fund section.
- Drug-Free Communities Act. ONDCP will award grants to community coalitions of representatives of youth, parents, businesses, the media, schools, youth organizations, law enforcement, religious or fraternal organizations, civic groups, health care professionals, local, or tribal government agencies, and other organizations. In carrying out the Program, the Director of ONDCP will: (1) make and track grants to grant recipients; (2) provide for technical assistance and training, data collection and dissemination of information on state-of-the-art practices that the Director determines to be effective in reducing substance abuse; and, (3) provide for the general administration of the Program. Additional program accomplishments are detailed under the Special Forfeiture Fund section.
- Ongoing ONDCP initiatives that support the initiative of shielding our air, land, and sea borders include:
- ONDCP and DOD are reviewing counterdrug Command and Control structure and procedures, as mandated by Congress.
- ONDCP has conducted an interagency review of the National Interdiction Command and Control Plan that combines Joint Interagency Task Forces East and South into one organization.
- ONDCP is following the development of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism sponsored by OAS/CICAD. This mechanism will provide for greater information sharing of drug trafficking data.
- ONDCP led an interagency review of the information sharing structural requirements for all U.S. agencies involved in international interdiction.
- The Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC) provides new technology to improve federal agency counter-drug enforcement operations, as well as drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation research missions. Current projects include:
- CTAC has developed and provided to the Customs Service evaluation prototype systems for detecting contraband in liquid transport containers and empty trucks with gamma rays, and detecting trace vapors using gas chromatography.
- CTAC has also developed and is testing a new generation of navigation, surveillance, and command systems for use by law enforcement officers to detect and track illegal drug trafficking.
- CTAC has also developed a research program designed to increase our knowledge of addiction causes. In the past year, two modern, state-of-the art brain imaging centers have been completed: the Brookhaven National Laboratories and the Addiction Research Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Research scientists are now identifying those preaddiction physiological and psychological characteristics that will identify "at risk" subjects who are most susceptible to substance abuse.
- Under CTAC funding, several research efforts are investigating candidate compounds which could lead to the production of therapeutic medicine to treat cocaine addiction.
- CTAC has also developed projects to support reducing drug related crime and violence. CTAC-sponsored technology testbeds were used to test, evaluate and improve the ability to track and locate both field units and drug trafficking suspects, conduct telephone surveillance, create more effective interoperable communications, and to detect suspicious financial transactions by identifying the underlying temporal patterns and trends associated with money laundering drug crimes.
- A CTAC sponsored prototype system using gamma-rays to detect drugs hidden in tanker trucks was successfully tested and employed operationally by the Customs Service along the Southwest Border.
- Development projects to support breaking foreign and domestic drug sources, sponsored by CTAC and led by the DEA, provided reliable estimates of cocaine production in the Andean region.
- Counterdrug R&D projects and the transfer of successful technology are backed by a support program of test and evaluation. This program includes a variety of technical assessments, support to science and technology initiatives, and an outreach program to promote the exchange of relevant information throughout the scientific and technical community. CTAC also uses the test and evaluation program to support a pilot program to transfer successful results to federal, state and local law enforcement organizations.
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