Information on Drug Control Programs 45.1. General. Information on drug control programs is required for oversight and review of agency requests and for Government-wide resource allocation. Drug control programs involve activities directed toward reducing the demand for and supply of drugs. They include programs that: --enforce, prosecute, and incarcerate individuals involved in the illegal distribution of drugs; --are aimed at discouraging the use of drugs; or --treat individuals for substance abuse. Agencies with budget authority or outlays for drug control programs that exceed $500,000 in any of the years from PY through BY+4 are required to submit the materials described in section 45.2. 45.2. Materials required. An original and two copies of the following materials are required with the initial submission (see section 10.3): --a schedule of drug control data by program; --a ranking of priorities; --a schedule providing account-level data on drug control programs; --a schedule providing Federal employee drug-free workplace cost data; and --a narrative statement. Budget authority and outlay amounts will be shown in millions and tenths. Data reported must be consistent with agency submissions to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (required by Public Law 100-690). Revised materials, reflecting final budget decisions and other changes in the initial submission, should be submitted promptly after such decisions and changes have been made. All required materials should have, in the lower right hand corner, the date of preparation and the name and telephone number of an individual responsible for answering questions concerning the information provided. Additional information may also be required by OMB representatives. (a) Drug control data by program.--Agencies will prepare a schedule, in the format of exhibit 45A, that provides for PY through BY+4: --the budget authority, outlays, and FTE levels for each program or program activity of the agency with drug control activities; --within the program, separate identification of the levels for drug control activities; and --the percentage of the program devoted to drug control activities. Programs or program activities listed in this schedule will be consistent with agency budget justification materials provided to OMB in last year's budget submission under section 15.2 of this circular. (b) Ranking.--A consolidated list, ranked in decreasing order of priority, of drug control programs or program activities and related funding levels for BY is required in a format that includes identification of the program or program activity and budget authority, outlays, and FTE levels associated with each item. (c) Drug control data by account.--Agencies will prepare a schedule in the format of exhibit 45B that provides budget authority, outlays, and FTE associated with drug control activities by account and drug control function for PY through BY+4. Drug control functions are defined as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Entry Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interdiction Activities designed to inhibit drugs or drug traffickers from infiltrating the borders of the United States by targeting the transportation link between the foreign supply and the U.S. border. Specifically, interdiction focuses on detecting, sorting, intercepting, tracking, and apprehending shipments of illegal drugs as they move from their departure zones in source countries along smuggling routes to the U.S. air, land, and sea borders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigations Activities designed to immobilize illegal drug trafficking organizations by arresting their leaders and seizing their drugs and assets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Activities primarily focused on or conducted in foreign countries whose purpose is to eradicate crops, seize drugs as close to the source as possible, arrest and prosecute major traffickers, destroy processing capabilities, provide alternative sources of income to farmers who abandon the cultivation of drug crops, reduce the demand for drugs, and/or broaden the response to the global drug problem by involving other nations in efforts to control the supply of and demand for drugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prosecution Activities designed to immobilize drug trafficking and money laundering organizations by prosecuting their members, forfeiting their assets, divesting them of their power, and, as appropriate, extraditing, deporting, and excluding their members. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections Activities associated with the incarceration and/or monitoring of individuals charged with violation of drug laws. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligence Activities or programs whose primary focus is to provide intelligence to law enforcement entities to further their ability to accomplish their mission. These include determining the drug intelligence needs of the drug enforcement agencies, improving intelligence collection efforts, maintaining and integrating systems for storage, retrieval, and sharing of intelligence information, improving intelligence analysis and estimation for tactical, operational, and strategic purposes, and ensuring the timely dissemination of drug intelligence products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- State and local Financial or technical assistance to State and assistance local law enforcement entities or Federal activities whose primary purpose is to assist State and local law enforcement entities in their efforts to investigate, arrest, prosecute, or incarcerate drug offenders, or otherwise reduce the supply of illegal drugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Law enforcement Activities intended to improve the capacity, research and efficiency, or quality of law enforcement development activities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regulatory and Activities focused on ensuring that Federal laws compliance and regulations governing the handling, manufacturing, distribution, etc., of controlled substances are properly followed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prevention Activities focused on discouraging the first-time use of controlled substances and encouraging those using illicit drugs to cease their use. These activities include supporting the collection of up-to-date information about trends in drug use and research findings, providing information to parents, schools, community groups, etc., to promote effective prevention efforts and to increase knowledge about drug abuse, providing financial or technical assistance to State, local, or private efforts to discourage drug use, encouraging communities to implement comprehensive responses to drug use, promoting individual responsibility and involvement in drug prevention, enlisting public figures as role models, and promoting the policy of drug-free workplaces. These activities also include drug testing. Amounts for prevention research should be identified separately under this function. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Treatment Activities focused on assisting users of controlled substances to end their addiction. These include counseling services, in-patient and out-patient treatment care, research into effective treatment modalities, etc. Amounts for treatment research should be identified separately under this function. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (d) Federal employee drug-free workplace program.--Agencies will prepare a schedule in the format of exhibit 45C to provide information on the drug testing component of the agency's Federal drug-free workplace program (reported under the prevention function) for PY through BY. The schedule will report the total number of units processed, the total obligations, and the average cost per unit for each of the following: --sample collection; --lab tests: initial and confirmation; --medical review officer costs; --quality control samples; --other costs directly associated with the testing component of the drug-free workplace program; and --administrative costs. (e) Narrative statement on drug control programs.--A narrative statement that describes the agency's drug control programs for CY through BY+4 will accompany the schedules of drug control data by program and account (exhibits 45A and 45B), the ranking, and the schedule on the Federal employee drug-free workplace program (exhibit 45C). The statement should explain increases and decreases in funding levels and major program, policy, or strategy changes proposed in the budget year. The purpose of the statement is to explain the policy justification and analytical basis for the programs and levels requested, including applicable data and research findings. In support of this justification, agencies should submit to OMB specific data relating to the performance of its drug control programs, effectiveness measures used to assist in the evaluation of overall program effectiveness and in determining the requested levels. Agencies should be aware that cross-cutting comparisons of agency requests will be conducted by OMB. As a result, the narrative statement should include evidence of cooperative development of complementary requests among the major agencies involved. If this information is discussed adequately in other justification material submitted to OMB, the narrative statement should reference the applicable material. For programs that are not completely devoted to drug control activities, agencies will provide a detailed description of the methodology used to prepare the estimates of these activities. Where drug control programs do not coincide with the budget account structure, a table will be prepared to show the relationship.