[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 76 (Friday, April 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 23594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-09305]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


Importer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Application; Rhodes 
Technologies

    This is notice that on March 6, 2013, Rhodes Technologies, 498 
Washington Street, Coventry, Rhode Island 02816, made application by 
renewal to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for registration 
as an importer of the following basic classes of controlled substances:

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                    Drug                               Schedule
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Opium, Raw (9600)..........................  II
Poppy Straw Concentrate (9670).............  II
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    The company plans to import the listed controlled substances in 
order to bulk manufacture controlled substances in Active 
Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) form. The company distributes the 
manufactured APIs in bulk to its customers.
    Comments and requests for hearings on applications to import 
narcotic raw material are not appropriate. 72 FR 3417 (2007).
    As noted in a previous notice published in the Federal Register on 
September 23, 1975, 40 FR 43745, all applicants for registration to 
import basic classes of any controlled substance in schedules I or II 
are, and will continue to be, required to demonstrate to the Deputy 
Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, that the requirements for such registration pursuant to 
21 U.S.C. 958(a); 21 U.S.C. 823(a); and 21 CFR 1301.34(b), (c), (d), 
(e), and (f) are satisfied.

     Dated: April 10, 2013.
Joseph T. Rannazzisi,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-09305 Filed 4-18-13; 8:45 am]
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