[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 43 (Friday, March 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 10724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5404]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


Importer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Registration

    By Notice dated October 1, 1998, and published in the Federal 
Register on October 9, 1998, (63 FR 54491), Chiragene, Inc., 7 Powder 
Horn Drive, Warren, New Jersey 07509, made application to the Drug 
Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be registered as an importer of the 
basic classes of controlled substances listed below:

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                    Drug                               Schedule
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2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine (7396)............  I
Phenylacetone (8501).......................  II
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    By letter dated February 11, 1998, Chiragene, Inc. has withdrawn 
its application for registration to import 2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine. 
Therefore, 2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine is hereby deleted from the firm's 
application for registration as an importer.
    The firm plans to import the phenylacetone to manufacture 
amphetamine.
    No comments or objections have been received. DEA has considered 
the factors in Title 21, United States Code, section 823(a) and 
determined that the registration of Chiragene, Inc. to import the 
listed controlled substances is consistent with the public interest and 
with United States obligations under international treaties, 
conventions, or protocols in effect on May 1, 1971, at this time. 
Therefore, pursuant to section 1008(a) of the Controlled Substances 
Import and Export Act and in accordance with Title 21, Code of Federal 
Regulations, section 1311.42, the above firm is granted registration as 
an importer of phenylacetone.
John H. King,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-5404 Filed 3-4-99; 8:45 am]
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