21 U.S.C. § 873 : US Code - Section 873: Cooperative arrangements

Search 21 U.S.C. § 873 : US Code - Section 873: Cooperative arrangements

(a) Cooperation of Attorney General with local, State, and Federal
agencies
The Attorney General shall cooperate with local, State, and
Federal agencies concerning traffic in controlled substances and in
suppressing the abuse of controlled substances. To this end, he is
authorized to -
(1) arrange for the exchange of information between
governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of controlled
substances;
(2) cooperate in the institution and prosecution of cases in
the courts of the United States and before the licensing boards
and courts of the several States;
(3) conduct training programs on controlled substance law
enforcement for local, State, and Federal personnel;
(4) maintain in the Department of Justice a unit which will
accept, catalog, file, and otherwise utilize all information and
statistics, including records of controlled substance abusers and
other controlled substance law offenders, which may be received
from Federal, State, and local agencies, and make such
information available for Federal, State, and local law
enforcement purposes;
(5) conduct programs of eradication aimed at destroying wild or
illicit growth of plant species from which controlled substances
may be extracted;
(6) assist State and local governments in suppressing the
diversion of controlled substances from legitimate medical,
scientific, and commercial channels by -
(A) making periodic assessments of the capabilities of State
and local governments to adequately control the diversion of
controlled substances;
(B) providing advice and counsel to State and local
governments on the methods by which such governments may
strengthen their controls against diversion; and
(C) establishing cooperative investigative efforts to control
diversion; and
(7) notwithstanding any other provision of law, enter into
contractual agreements with State and local law enforcement
agencies to provide for cooperative enforcement and regulatory
activities under this chapter.(!1)
(b) Requests by Attorney General for assistance from Federal
agencies or instrumentalities
When requested by the Attorney General, it shall be the duty of
any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government to furnish
assistance, including technical advice, to him for carrying out his
functions under this subchapter; except that no such agency or
instrumentality shall be required to furnish the name of, or other
identifying information about, a patient or research subject whose
identity it has undertaken to keep confidential.
(c) Descriptive and analytic reports by Attorney General to State
agencies of distribution patterns of schedule II substances
having highest rates of abuse
The Attorney General shall annually (1) select the controlled
substance (or controlled substances) contained in schedule II
which, in the Attorney General's discretion, is determined to have
the highest rate of abuse, and (2) prepare and make available to
regulatory, licensing, and law enforcement agencies of States
descriptive and analytic reports on the actual distribution
patterns in such States of each such controlled substance.
(d) Grants by Attorney General
(1) The Attorney General may make grants, in accordance with
paragraph (2), to State and local governments to assist in meeting
the costs of -
(A) collecting and analyzing data on the diversion of
controlled substances,
(B) conducting investigations and prosecutions of such
diversions,
(C) improving regulatory controls and other authorities to
control such diversions,
(D) programs to prevent such diversions,
(E) preventing and detecting forged prescriptions, and
(F) training law enforcement and regulatory personnel to
improve the control of such diversions.
(2) No grant may be made under paragraph (1) unless an
application therefor is submitted to the Attorney General in such
form and manner as the Attorney General may prescribe. No grant may
exceed 80 per centum of the costs for which the grant is made, and
no grant may be made unless the recipient of the grant provides
assurances satisfactory to the Attorney General that it will
obligate funds to meet the remaining 20 per centum of such costs.
The Attorney General shall review the activities carried out with
grants under paragraph (1) and shall report annually to Congress on
such activities.
(3) To carry out this subsection there is authorized to be
appropriated $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1985 and $6,000,000 for
fiscal year 1986.