The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are authorized to support the development and use of environmentally-approved herbicides to eliminate illicit narcotics crops, including coca, cannabis, and opium poppy, both in the United States and in foreign countries. ( Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title VIII, § 834 , Oct. 21, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2681–702 .) Editorial Notes Codification Section was enacted as part of the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act , and not as part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 which comprises this chapter.