Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
S 2100 IS
Sponsored by: Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD] and Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY]
Committees – Senate Judiciary
Amendments -This bill has no amendments.
110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2100To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up methamphetamine laboratories.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 26, 2007
Mr. JOHNSON (for himself and Mr. BARRASSO) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A bill To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up methamphetamine laboratories.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This Act may be cited as the `Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007.
SEC. 2. FUNDING FROM TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND.
(I) the property owner did not have knowledge of the existence or operation of such laboratory before the law enforcement action to close it; or
`(II) the property owner notifies law enforcement not later than 24 hours after discovering the existence of such laboratory.
`(K)(i) Payment to the designated State, local, or tribal law enforcement, environmental, or health entity for experts and consultants needed to clean up any area formerly used as a methamphetamine laboratory.
(ii) If a methamphetamine laboratory is located on private property, not more than 90 percent of the costs may be paid only if–
(1) by redesignating section 9703 (as added by Public Law 103-62) as section 9703A;
(2) by moving section 9703 (as added by Public Law 102-393) so as to appear after section 9702; and
(3) in section 9703(a)(1), by adding at the end the following:
Chapter 97 of title 31, United States Code, is amended
I am a realtor and have been given an bank owned property. The neighbors claim it was a meth lab….I am located in Naples, Florida. What are the requirements if any….the house is empty and is being repainted due to the numerous holes in the walls and dark colors.
Thank you.
Vicky Moreno
We need laws and we need them now. Laws that will protect tenants and residents, and laws that will help unwitting landlords get help to clean up their properties! Without help cleaning up properties, the clean up will be substandard. Poor people will suffer, and those who have invested in properties will lose out. We need public education not just to the effect that meth is dangerous, but information about the health effects and the burns and the formification which develops upon exposure and the internal cancers, etc that exposure causes. Think of all the lower income people who are subjected every day to meth exposure simply because they can not afford a better place to live. (And think kindly, some may be your friends…)