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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 3359 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy to counter fentanyl |
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| 6 | 6 | | trafficking in the United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MAY16, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mrs. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ICE(for herself, Mrs. KIGGANSof Virginia, and Mr. CARBAJAL) intro- |
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| 11 | 11 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed |
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| 12 | 12 | | Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and For- |
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| 13 | 13 | | eign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, |
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| 14 | 14 | | in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris- |
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| 15 | 15 | | diction of the committee concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy |
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| 18 | 18 | | to counter fentanyl trafficking in the United States, and |
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| 19 | 19 | | for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This section may be cited as the ‘‘Disrupt Fentanyl 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Trafficking Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. DISRUPT FENTANYL TRAFFICKING ACT OF 2023. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (a) S |
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| 27 | 27 | | ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) fentanyl trafficking across the borders of 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | the United States, and the consequences of that 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | trafficking, constitute an unprecedented, nontradi-3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | tional, and long-term threat to the national security 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of the United States; 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) transnational criminal organizations have 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | established effective control over significant areas 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | within Mexico, which has enabled the development of 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | fentanyl production and trafficking infrastructure; 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) combating fentanyl trafficking demands— 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (A) improved interagency command, con-11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | trol, communications, and intelligence sharing 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | to enhance the effectiveness of the interdiction 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | of fentanyl at the borders of the United States; 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (B) whole-of-government solutions com-16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | prised of an integrated and synchronized inter-17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | agency organizational construct committed to 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | dismantling the process of trafficking fentanyl 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | from chemical precursor to production to deliv-20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ery in the United States and enabling partner 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | nations to do the same; 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (4) it is within the national security interest of 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the United States for Federal, State, and local law 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | enforcement agencies, the Department of Defense, 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | the Department of State, other counter-drug agen-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | cies, and stakeholders to effectively communicate 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | and that the failure of effective communication af-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | fects the prevention, interdiction, and prosecution of 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | fentanyl trafficking and distribution into and within 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | the United States; and 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (5) the United States must partner with Mexico 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | and Canada to combat fentanyl trafficking through 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | institution building, the dismantling of cartels, and 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | seizures of fentanyl in Mexico, Canada, and intra-10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | state transit zones. 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (b) D |
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| 72 | 72 | | EVELOPMENT OF STRATEGYTOCOUNTER 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | F |
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| 74 | 74 | | ENTANYLTRAFFICKING ANDREPORT.— 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (1) S |
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| 76 | 76 | | TRATEGY.— 14 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (A) I |
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| 78 | 78 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 120 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | days after the date of the enactment of this 16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | with other Federal agencies as the Secretary 18 |
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| 82 | 82 | | considers appropriate, shall develop and submit 19 |
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| 83 | 83 | | to the appropriate congressional committees a 20 |
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| 84 | 84 | | strategy to use existing authorities, including 21 |
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| 85 | 85 | | the authorities under section 124 of title 10, 22 |
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| 86 | 86 | | United States Code, as appropriate, to target, 23 |
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| 87 | 87 | | disrupt, or degrade threats to the national secu-24 |
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| 91 | 91 | | rity of the United States caused or exacerbated 1 |
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| 92 | 92 | | by fentanyl trafficking. 2 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (B) C |
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| 94 | 94 | | ONTENTS.—The strategy required by 3 |
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| 95 | 95 | | subparagraph (A) shall outline how the Sec-4 |
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| 96 | 96 | | retary of Defense will— 5 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (i) leverage existing authorities re-6 |
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| 98 | 98 | | garding counterdrug and counter- 7 |
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| 99 | 99 | | transnational organized crime activities 8 |
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| 100 | 100 | | with a counter-fentanyl nexus to detect 9 |
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| 101 | 101 | | and monitor activities related to fentanyl 10 |
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| 102 | 102 | | trafficking; 11 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (ii) support operations to counter 12 |
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| 104 | 104 | | fentanyl trafficking carried out by other 13 |
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| 105 | 105 | | Federal agencies, State, Tribal, and local 14 |
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| 106 | 106 | | law enforcement agencies, or foreign secu-15 |
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| 107 | 107 | | rity forces; 16 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (iii) coordinate efforts of the Depart-17 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ment of Defense for the detection and 18 |
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| 110 | 110 | | monitoring of aerial, maritime, and surface 19 |
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| 111 | 111 | | traffic suspected of carrying fentanyl 20 |
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| 112 | 112 | | bound for the United States, including ef-21 |
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| 113 | 113 | | forts to unify the use of technology, sur-22 |
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| 114 | 114 | | veillance, and related resources across air, 23 |
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| 115 | 115 | | land, and maritime domains to counter 24 |
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| 116 | 116 | | fentanyl trafficking, including with respect 25 |
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| 120 | 120 | | to data collection, data processing, and in-1 |
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| 121 | 121 | | tegrating sensors across such domains; 2 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (iv) provide military-unique capabili-3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ties to support activities by the United 4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | States Government and foreign security 5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | forces to detect and monitor the trafficking 6 |
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| 126 | 126 | | of fentanyl and precursor chemicals used 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | in fentanyl production, consistent with sec-8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | tion 284(b)(10) of title 10, United States 9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Code; 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (v) leverage existing counterdrug and 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | counter-transnational organized crime pro-12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | grams of the Department to counter 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | fentanyl trafficking; 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (vi) assess existing training programs 15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | of the Department and provide training for 16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | Federal, State, Tribal, and local law en-17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | forcement agencies conducted by special 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | operations forces to counter fentanyl traf-19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ficking, consistent with section 284(b) of 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | title 10, United States Code; 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (vii) engage with foreign security 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | forces to ensure the counterdrug and 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | counter-transnational organized crime pro-24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | grams of the Department— 25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | (I) support efforts to counter 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | fentanyl trafficking; and 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (II) build capacity to interdict 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | fentanyl in foreign countries, includ-4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ing programs to train security forces 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | in partner countries to counter 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | fentanyl trafficking, including coun-7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | tering illicit flows of fentanyl precur-8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | sors, consistent with sections 284(c) 9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | and 333 of title 10, United States 10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | Code; 11 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (viii) use the North American Defense 12 |
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| 160 | 160 | | Ministerial and the bilateral defense work-13 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ing groups and bilateral military coopera-14 |
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| 162 | 162 | | tion round tables with Canada and Mexico 15 |
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| 163 | 163 | | to increase domain awareness to detect and 16 |
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| 164 | 164 | | monitor fentanyl trafficking; and 17 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (ix) evaluate existing policies, proce-18 |
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| 166 | 166 | | dures, processes, and resources that affect 19 |
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| 167 | 167 | | the ability of the Department to counter 20 |
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| 168 | 168 | | fentanyl trafficking consistent with existing 21 |
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| 169 | 169 | | counterdrug and counter-transnational or-22 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ganized crime authorities. 23 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (C) FORM.—The strategy required by sub-1 |
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| 175 | 175 | | paragraph (A) shall be submitted in unclassi-2 |
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| 176 | 176 | | fied form, but may include a classified annex. 3 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (D) B |
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| 178 | 178 | | RIEFING.—Not later than 45 days 4 |
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| 179 | 179 | | after the submission of the strategy required by 5 |
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| 180 | 180 | | subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall provide 6 |
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| 181 | 181 | | to the appropriate congressional committees a 7 |
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| 182 | 182 | | briefing on the strategy and plans for its imple-8 |
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| 183 | 183 | | mentation. 9 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (2) R |
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| 185 | 185 | | EPORT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT REIM -10 |
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| 186 | 186 | | BURSEMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall sub-11 |
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| 187 | 187 | | mit to the appropriate congressional committees a 12 |
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| 188 | 188 | | report on— 13 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (A) any goods or services provided under 14 |
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| 190 | 190 | | section 1535 of title 31, United States Code 15 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (commonly known as the ‘‘Economy Act’’), dur-16 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ing the period beginning on January 1, 2010, 17 |
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| 193 | 193 | | and ending on the date on which the report is 18 |
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| 194 | 194 | | submitted, by the Department of Defense to 19 |
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| 195 | 195 | | Federal civilian law enforcement agencies for 20 |
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| 196 | 196 | | counterdrug and counter-transnational orga-21 |
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| 197 | 197 | | nized crime operations on the southern border 22 |
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| 198 | 198 | | of the United States; and 23 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (B) any payments made for such goods or 24 |
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| 200 | 200 | | services under such section during such period. 25 |
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| 204 | 204 | | (c) COOPERATIONWITHMEXICO.— 1 |
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| 205 | 205 | | (1) I |
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| 206 | 206 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 2 |
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| 207 | 207 | | shall seek to enhance cooperation with defense offi-3 |
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| 208 | 208 | | cials of the Government of Mexico to target, disrupt, 4 |
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| 209 | 209 | | and degrade transnational criminal organizations 5 |
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| 210 | 210 | | within Mexico that traffic fentanyl. 6 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (2) R |
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| 212 | 212 | | EPORT ON ENHANCED SECURITY CO -7 |
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| 213 | 213 | | OPERATION.— 8 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (A) I |
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| 215 | 215 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 9 |
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| 216 | 216 | | days after the date of the enactment of this 10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | the appropriate congressional committees a re-12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | port on efforts to enhance cooperation with de-13 |
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| 220 | 220 | | fense officials of the Government of Mexico 14 |
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| 221 | 221 | | specified in paragraph (1). 15 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (B) C |
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| 223 | 223 | | ONTENTS.—The report required by 16 |
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| 224 | 224 | | subparagraph (A) shall include— 17 |
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| 225 | 225 | | (i) an assessment of the impact of the 18 |
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| 226 | 226 | | efforts to enhance cooperation described in 19 |
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| 227 | 227 | | paragraph (1) on targeting, disrupting, 20 |
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| 228 | 228 | | and degrading fentanyl trafficking; 21 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (ii) a description of limitations on 22 |
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| 230 | 230 | | such efforts, including limitations imposed 23 |
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| 231 | 231 | | by the Government of Mexico; 24 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (iii) recommendations by the Sec-1 |
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| 236 | 236 | | retary on actions to further improve co-2 |
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| 237 | 237 | | operation with defense officials of the Gov-3 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ernment of Mexico; 4 |
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| 239 | 239 | | (iv) recommendations by the Secretary 5 |
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| 240 | 240 | | on actions of the Department of Defense 6 |
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| 241 | 241 | | to further improve the capabilities of the 7 |
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| 242 | 242 | | Government of Mexico to target, disrupt, 8 |
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| 243 | 243 | | and degrade fentanyl trafficking; and 9 |
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| 244 | 244 | | (v) any other matter the Secretary 10 |
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| 245 | 245 | | considers relevant. 11 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (C) F |
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| 247 | 247 | | ORM.—The report required by sub-12 |
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| 248 | 248 | | paragraph (A) may be submitted in unclassified 13 |
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| 249 | 249 | | form but shall include a classified annex. 14 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (d) D |
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| 251 | 251 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 15 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (1) A |
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| 253 | 253 | | PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -16 |
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| 254 | 254 | | TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-17 |
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| 255 | 255 | | mittees’’ means— 18 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (A) the Committee on Armed Services of 19 |
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| 257 | 257 | | the Senate; and 20 |
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| 258 | 258 | | (B) the Committee on Armed Services of 21 |
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| 259 | 259 | | the House of Representatives. 22 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (2) F |
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| 261 | 261 | | ENTANYL.—The term ‘‘fentanyl’’ means 23 |
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| 262 | 262 | | fentanyl and any fentanyl-related substance. 24 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (3) FENTANYL-RELATED SUBSTANCE .—The 1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | term ‘‘fentanyl-related substance’’— 2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | (A) means any substance that is struc-3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | turally related to fentanyl by 1 or more modi-4 |
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| 270 | 270 | | fications of— 5 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (i) replacement of the phenyl portion 6 |
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| 272 | 272 | | of the phenethyl group by any monocycle, 7 |
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| 273 | 273 | | whether or not further substituted in or on 8 |
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| 274 | 274 | | the monocycle; 9 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (ii) substitution in or on the phenethyl 10 |
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| 276 | 276 | | group with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, 11 |
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| 277 | 277 | | hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino, or nitro 12 |
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| 278 | 278 | | groups; 13 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (iii) substitution in or on the piper-14 |
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| 280 | 280 | | idine ring with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, 15 |
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| 281 | 281 | | ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, 16 |
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| 282 | 282 | | amino, or nitro groups; 17 |
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| 283 | 283 | | (iv) replacement of the aniline ring 18 |
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| 284 | 284 | | with any aromatic monocycle whether or 19 |
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| 285 | 285 | | not further substituted in or on the aro-20 |
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| 286 | 286 | | matic monocycle; and 21 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (v) replacement of the N-propionyl 22 |
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| 288 | 288 | | group with another acyl group; and 23 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (B) does not include a substance described 24 |
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| 290 | 290 | | in subparagraph (A) that is— 25 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (i) controlled by action of the Attor-1 |
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| 295 | 295 | | ney General pursuant to section 201 of the 2 |
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| 296 | 296 | | Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 297 | 297 | | 811); 4 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (ii) expressly listed in Schedule I of 5 |
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| 299 | 299 | | section 202(c) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 812) 6 |
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| 300 | 300 | | or another schedule by a statutory provi-7 |
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| 301 | 301 | | sion; or 8 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (iii) removed from Schedule I, or re-9 |
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| 303 | 303 | | scheduled to another schedule, pursuant to 10 |
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| 304 | 304 | | section 201(k) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 11 |
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| 305 | 305 | | 811(k)). 12 |
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| 306 | 306 | | (4) I |
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| 307 | 307 | | LLEGAL MEANS .—The term ‘‘illegal 13 |
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| 308 | 308 | | means’’ includes the trafficking of money, human 14 |
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| 309 | 309 | | trafficking, illicit financial flows, illegal trade in nat-15 |
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| 310 | 310 | | ural resources and wildlife, trade in illegal drugs and 16 |
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| 311 | 311 | | weapons, and other forms of illegal means deter-17 |
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| 312 | 312 | | mined by the Secretary of Defense. 18 |
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| 313 | 313 | | (5) S |
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| 314 | 314 | | ECURITY COOPERATION PROGRAM .—The 19 |
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| 315 | 315 | | term ‘‘security cooperation program’’ has the mean-20 |
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| 316 | 316 | | ing given that term in section 301 of title 10, United 21 |
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| 317 | 317 | | States Code. 22 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (6) T |
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| 324 | 324 | | (A) IN GENERAL .—The term 1 |
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| 325 | 325 | | ‘‘transnational criminal organization’’ means a 2 |
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| 326 | 326 | | group, network, and associated individuals who 3 |
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| 327 | 327 | | operate transnationally for the purpose of ob-4 |
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| 328 | 328 | | taining power, influence, or monetary or com-5 |
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| 329 | 329 | | mercial gain, wholly or in part by illegal means, 6 |
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| 330 | 330 | | while advancing their activities through a pat-7 |
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| 331 | 331 | | tern of crime, corruption, or violence and pro-8 |
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| 332 | 332 | | tecting their illegal activities through a 9 |
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| 333 | 333 | | transnational organizational structure and the 10 |
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| 334 | 334 | | exploitation of public corruption or 11 |
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| 335 | 335 | | transnational logistics, financial, or communica-12 |
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| 336 | 336 | | tion mechanisms. 13 |
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| 337 | 337 | | (B) A |
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| 338 | 338 | | DDITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .—The 14 |
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| 339 | 339 | | term ‘‘transnational criminal organization’’ in-15 |
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| 340 | 340 | | cludes any transnational criminal organization 16 |
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| 341 | 341 | | identified in the most recent Drug Threat As-17 |
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| 342 | 342 | | sessment of the Drug Enforcement Agency. 18 |
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