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Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and with-
out regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III
or chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General
Schedule pay rates, except that no rate of pay fixed under this
subsection may exceed the equivalent of that payable to a person
occupying a position at level V of the Executive Schedule under
section 5316 of such title.
(2) Any Federal Government employee may be detailed to the
Commission without reimbursement from the Commission, and such
detailee shall retain the rights, status, and privileges of his or
her regular employment without interruption.
(3) All staff of the Commission shall possess a security clearance
in accordance with applicable laws and regulations concerning the
handling of classified information.
(b) CONSULTANT SERVICES.—(1) The Commission may procure
the services of experts and consultants in accordance with section
3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates not to exceed
the daily rate paid a person occupying a position at level IV of
the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title.
(2) All experts and consultants employed by the Commission
shall possess a security clearance in accordance with applicable
laws and regulations concerning the handling of classified informa-
tion.
SEC. 706. COMPENSATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSES.
(a) COMPENSATION.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2),
each member of the Commission may be compensated at not to
exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in
effect for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under
section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, for each day during
which that member is engaged in the actual performance of the
duties of the Commission under this title.
(2) Members of the Commission who are officers or employees
of the United States or Members of Congress shall receive no
additional pay by reason of their service on the Commission.
(b) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—While away from their homes or regular
places of business in the performance of services for the Commis-
sion, members of the Commission may be allowed travel expenses,
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner
as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are
allowed expenses under section 5703(b) of title 5, United States
Code.
SEC. 707. TREATMENT OF INFORMATION RELATING TO NATIONAL
SECURITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) The Director of Central Intelligence shall
assume responsibility for the handling and disposition of any
information related to the national security of the United States
that is received, considered, or used by the Commission under
this title.
(2) Any information related to the national security of the
United States that is provided to the Commission by a congressional
intelligence committee may not be further provided or released
without the approval of the chairman of such committee.
(b) ACCESS
AFTER TERMINATION
OF COMMISSION.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, after the termination of the
Commission under section 708, only the Members and designated
staff of the congressional intelligence committees, the Director of
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Central Intelligence and the designees of the Director, and such
other officials of the executive branch as the President may des-
ignate shall have access to information related to the national
security of the United States that is received, considered, or used
by the Commission.
SEC. 708. FINAL REPORT; TERMINATION.
(a) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than November 1, 2000, the
Commission shall submit to the congressional intelligence commit-
tees, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Secretary of
Defense a final report as required by section 703(a).
(b) TERMINATION.—(1) The Commission, and all the authorities
of this title, shall terminate at the end of the 120-day period
beginning on the date on which the final report under subsection
(a) is transmitted to the congressional intelligence committees.
(2) The Commission may use the 120-day period referred to
in paragraph (1) for the purposes of concluding its activities,
including providing testimony to committees of Congress concerning
the final report referred to in that paragraph and disseminating
the report.
SEC. 709. ASSESSMENTS OF FINAL REPORT.
Not later than 60 days after receipt of the final report under
section 708(a), the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary
of Defense shall each submit to the congressional intelligence
committees an assessment by the Director or the Secretary, as
the case may be, of the final report. Each assessment shall include
such comments on the findings and recommendations contained
in the final report as the Director or Secretary, as the case may
be, considers appropriate.
SEC. 710. INAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE PROVI-
SIONS.
(a) FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT.—The provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply
to the activities of the Commission under this title.
(b) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.—The provisions of section
552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the
Freedom of Information Act), shall not apply to the activities,
records, and proceedings of the Commission under this title.
SEC. 711. FUNDING.
(a) TRANSFER FROM NRO.—Of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated by this Act for the National Reconnaissance Office,
the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office shall transfer
to the Director of Central Intelligence $5,000,000 for purposes of
the activities of the Commission under this title.
(b) AVAILABILITY IN GENERAL.—The Director of Central Intel-
ligence shall make available to the Commission, from the amount
transferred to the Director under subsection (a), such amounts
as the Commission may require for purposes of the activities of
the Commission under this title.
(c) DURATION OF AVAILABILITY.—Amounts made available to
the Commission under subsection (b) shall remain available until
expended.
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SEC. 712. CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES DEFINED.
In this title, the term ‘‘congressional intelligence committees’’
means the following:
(1) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(2) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of
the House of Representatives.
TITLE VIII—INTERNATIONAL
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Narcotics Kingpin
Designation Act’’.
SEC. 802. FINDINGS AND POLICY.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Presidential Decision Directive 42, issued on October
21, 1995, ordered agencies of the executive branch of the United
States Government to, inter alia, increase the priority and
resources devoted to the direct and immediate threat inter-
national crime presents to national security, work more closely
with other governments to develop a global response to this
threat, and use aggressively and creatively all legal means
available to combat international crime.
(2) Executive Order No. 12978 of October 21, 1995, provides
for the use of the authorities in the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to target
and apply sanctions to four international narcotics traffickers
and their organizations that operate from Colombia.
(3) IEEPA was successfully applied to international nar-
cotics traffickers in Colombia and based on that successful
case study, Congress believes similar authorities should be
applied worldwide.
(4) There is a national emergency resulting from the activi-
ties of international narcotics traffickers and their organizations
that threatens the national security, foreign policy, and
economy of the United States.
(b) POLICY.—It shall be the policy of the United States to
apply economic and other financial sanctions to significant foreign
narcotics traffickers and their organizations worldwide to protect
the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United
States from the threat described in subsection (a)(4).
SEC. 803. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this title is to provide authority for the identi-
fication of, and application of sanctions on a worldwide basis to,
significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and
the foreign persons who provide support to those significant foreign
narcotics traffickers and their organizations, whose activities
threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the
United States.
SEC. 
804. 
PUBLIC 
IDENTIFICATION 
OF 
SIGNIFICANT 
FOREIGN
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND REQUIRED REPORTS.
(a) PROVISION
OF
INFORMATION
TO
THE
PRESIDENT.—The
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary
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of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Director of Central
Intelligence shall consult among themselves and provide the appro-
priate and necessary information to enable the President to submit
the report under subsection (b). This information shall also be
provided to the Director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy.
(b) PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION AND SANCTIONING OF SIGNIFICANT
FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS.—Not later than June 1, 2000,
and not later than June 1 of each year thereafter, the President
shall submit a report to the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, and the Committees on the Judiciary, International Rela-
tions, Armed Services, and Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and to the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the
Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Armed Services,
and Finance of the Senate—
(1) identifying publicly the foreign persons that the Presi-
dent determines are appropriate for sanctions pursuant to this
title; and
(2) detailing publicly the President’s intent to impose sanc-
tions upon these significant foreign narcotics traffickers pursu-
ant to this title.
The report required in this subsection shall not include information
on persons upon which United States sanctions imposed under
this title, or otherwise on account of narcotics trafficking, are
already in effect.
(c) UNCLASSIFIED REPORT REQUIRED.—The report required by
subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form and made
available to the public.
(d) CLASSIFIED REPORT.—(1) Not later than July 1, 2000, and
not later than July 1 of each year thereafter, the President shall
provide the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence
of the Senate with a report in classified form describing in detail
the status of the sanctions imposed under this title, including
the personnel and resources directed towards the imposition of
such sanctions during the preceding fiscal year, and providing back-
ground information with respect to newly-identified significant for-
eign narcotics traffickers and their activities.
(2) Such classified report shall describe actions the President
intends to undertake or has undertaken with respect to such signifi-
cant foreign narcotics traffickers.
(3) The report required under this subsection is in addition
to the President’s obligations to keep the intelligence committees
of Congress fully and currently informed pursuant to the provisions
of the National Security Act of 1947.
(e) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION.—
(1) INTELLIGENCE.—Notwithstanding any other provision
of this section, the reports described in subsections (b) and
(d) shall not disclose the identity of any person, if the Director
of Central Intelligence determines that such disclosure could
compromise an intelligence operation, activity, source, or
method of the United States.
(2) LAW ENFORCEMENT.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of this section, the reports described in subsections (b)
and (d) shall not disclose the name of any person if the Attorney
General, in coordination as appropriate with the Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of the