Pub. L. 101-164, tit. III, sec. 325

Sec. 325. (a) Essential Air Service Compensation.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Transportation shall make payment of compensation under subsection 419 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, only to the extent and in the manner provided in appropriations Acts, at times and in a manner determined by the Secretary to be appropriate, and claims for such compensation shall not arise except in accordance with this provision. (b) Use of Deadly Force.— The Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and House of Representatives, to the Senate International Narcotics Control Caucus, and to the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control of the House of Representatives on: 103 STAT. 1096 (1) All current provisions of law and regulation permitting the use of deadly force during time of peace by United States Coast Guard personnel in the performance of their official duties— (A) within the territorial land, sea, and air of the United States, its territories and possessions; and (B) outside the territorial land, sea, and air of the United States, its territories and possessions. (2) Changes, if any that may be necessary to existing law, regulations, treaty, or executive agreements to permit United States Coast Guard personnel to employ deadly force under the following circumstances— (A) to bring down a suspected drug smuggling aircraft which has refused or ignored instructions to land at a specified airfield for customs inspection after penetrating the territorial airspace of the United States; (B) to halt a suspected drug smuggling vessel on the sea which has been ordered to heave to for inspection by a United States vessel or aircraft and has ignored or refused to obey the order; (C) and to halt a suspected drug smuggler who has crossed the land border of the United States illegally and who has refused to obey or ignored an order to stop for customs inspection. (3) The required report shall be submitted not later than ninety days after the enactment into law of this Act. The required report may be submitted in both classified and unclassified versions.