REPORT ON DEFENSE SPENDING FOR COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES

SEC. 1007. REPORT ON DEFENSE SPENDING FOR COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES (a) Report Required.— Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees, the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control of the House of Representatives a report examining the counter-drug budget and expenditures of the Department of Defense. (b) Contents.— The report required by subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) An analysis of the funds authorized and appropriated in fiscal years 1989 and 1990 for the counter-drug activities of the Department of Defense, including— (A) an examination of how those funds were obligated and expended, including a month-by-month breakdown of obligations and expenditures; (B) a determination of whether there were delays in obligating and expending those funds and the reasons for any such delays; and (C) an accounting of the amount of funds available for counter-drug activities that lapsed at the end of each of the fiscal years. (2) A determination of whether there has been a systemic failure in the timely obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated for the counter-drug activities of the Department of Defense for fiscal years 1989 and 1990. (3) An analysis of the effectiveness of the role of the Department of Defense Coordinator for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support, including— (A) a determination whether the responsibility of serving as both the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and Coordinator for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support complicates the ability of the Assistant Secretary to coordinate all entities within the Department of Defense in the counter-drug mission; and (B) a determination regarding the adequacy of personnel levels in the Office of the Assistant Secretary to meet his responsibility for coordinating counter-drug activities within the Department of Defense and ensuring that funds appropriated for such activities are obligated and expended in a timely manner. (4) Recommendations for correcting any problems found in the course of the review.