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‘‘(p) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy to carry out this section— 
‘‘(1) $240,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
‘‘(2) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(3) $260,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(4) $270,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
‘‘(5) $280,000,000 for each of fiscal year 
2011.’’. 
SEC. 302. FUNDING FOR CERTAIN HIGH INTENSITY DRUG 
TRAFFICKING AREAS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Dawson Family Community Protection Act’’. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) In the early morning hours of October 16, 
2002, the home of Carnell and Angela Dawson was 
firebombed 
in 
apparent 
retaliation 
for 
Mrs. 
Dawson’s notification to police about persistent drug 
distribution activity in their East Baltimore City 
neighborhood. 
(2) The arson claimed the lives of Mr. and Mrs. 
Dawson and their 5 young children, aged 9 to 14. 
(3) The horrific murder of the Dawson family 
is a stark example of domestic narco-terrorism. 
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(4) In all phases of counternarcotics law en-
forcement—from prevention to investigation to pros-
ecution to reentry—the voluntary cooperation of or-
dinary citizens is a critical component. 
(5) Voluntary cooperation is difficult for law en-
forcement officials to obtain when citizens feel that 
cooperation carries the risk of violent retaliation by 
illegal drug trafficking organizations and their affili-
ates. 
(6) Public confidence that law enforcement is 
doing all it can to make communities safe is a pre-
requisite for voluntary cooperation among people 
who may be subject to intimidation or reprisal (or 
both). 
(7) Witness protection programs are insufficient 
on their own to provide security because many indi-
viduals and families who strive every day to make 
distressed neighborhoods livable for their children, 
other relatives, and neighbors will resist or refuse of-
fers of relocation by local, State, and Federal pros-
ecutorial agencies and because, moreover, the contin-
ued presence of strong individuals and families is 
critical to preserving and strengthening the social 
fabric in such communities. 
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(8) Where (as in certain sections of Baltimore 
City) interstate trafficking of illegal drugs has severe 
ancillary local consequences within areas designated 
as high intensity drug trafficking areas, it is impor-
tant that supplementary High Intensity Drug Traf-
ficking Areas Program funds be committed to sup-
port initiatives aimed at making the affected com-
munities safe for the residents of those communities 
and encouraging their cooperation with tribal, local, 
State, and Federal law enforcement efforts to com-
bat illegal drug trafficking. 
(c) FUNDING FOR CERTAIN HIGH INTENSITY DRUG 
TRAFFICKING AREAS.—Section 707, as amended by sec-
tion 301, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(q) SPECIFIC PURPOSES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall ensure 
that, of the amounts appropriated for a fiscal year 
for the Program, at least $7,000,000 is used in high 
intensity drug trafficking areas with severe neigh-
borhood safety and illegal drug distribution prob-
lems. 
‘‘(2) REQUIRED USES.—The funds used under 
paragraph (1) shall be used— 
‘‘(A) to ensure the safety of neighborhoods 
and the protection of communities, including 
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the prevention of the intimidation of potential 
witnesses of illegal drug distribution and related 
activities; and 
‘‘(B) to combat illegal drug trafficking 
through such methods as the Director considers 
appropriate, such as establishing or operating 
(or both) a toll-free telephone hotline for use by 
the public to provide information about illegal 
drug-related activities.’’. 
SEC. 303. ASSESSMENT. 
The Director shall assess the ability of the HIDTA 
Program to respond to the so-called ‘‘balloon effect’’, 
whereby urban drug traffickers facing intensive law en-
forcement efforts expand and spread their trafficking and 
distribution into rural, suburban, and smaller urban areas 
by conducting a demonstration project examining the abil-
ity of the New York/New Jersey HIDTA, with its new sin-
gle colocated Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement 
Task Force/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Strike 
Force and HIDTA Regional Intelligence Center, to ad-
dress the movement of drug traffickers into the more 
rural, suburban, and smaller areas encompassed by the 
counties of Albany, Onondaga, Monroe, and Erie in New 
York State and by annexing these counties into the exist-
ing New York/New Jersey HIDTA. 
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TITLE IV—TECHNOLOGY 
SEC. 401. COUNTERDRUG TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CEN-
TER. 
(a) CHIEF SCIENTIST.—Section 708(b) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) CHIEF SCIENTIST.—There shall be at the head 
of the Center the Chief Scientist, who shall be appointed 
by the Director from among individuals qualified and dis-
tinguished in the area of science, medicine, engineering, 
or technology.’’. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(1) RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOPMENT.—Section 
708 is amended by— 
(A) redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(B) striking subsection (c) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(c) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBIL-
ITIES.—The Director, acting through the Chief Scientist, 
shall— 
‘‘(1) identify and define the short-, medium-, 
and long-term scientific and technological needs of 
Federal, State, local, and tribal drug supply reduc-
tion agencies, including— 
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