[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75958-75959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30929]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


The Church of the Living Tree; Notice of Withdrawal of Denial of 
Application

    On November 4, 1999, the Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an 
Order to Show Cause proposing to deny The Church of the Living Tree's 
application for registration as a manufacturer of the controlled 
substance marijuana. Effective August 18, 2000, the DEA Administrator, 
in his final order published in the Federal Register, 65 FR 50567, 
denied the application for registration, noting that The Church of the 
Living Tree had not responded to the Order to Show Cause.
    By letter dated August 11, 2000, a representative of The Church of 
the Living Tree advised that he had in fact properly submitted a timely 
request for hearing. Photocopies of a United States Postal Service 
Receipt for Certified Mail and Domestic Return Receipt indicating 
delivery accompanied the letter.
    Inasmuch as it appears that The Church of the Living Tree timely 
requested a hearing in this matter, the final order should not have 
issued. The Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration 
therefore orders that the final order published August 18, 2000, at 65 
Fed. Reg. 50567 be, and it hereby is, rescinded, and this matter is 
hereby remanded to the Office of Administrative Law Judges, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, for further appropriate proceedings. This 
order is effective December 5, 2000.


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    Dated: November 21, 2000.
Julio F. Mercado,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 00-30929 Filed 12-4-00; 8:45 am]
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