[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 81 (Thursday, April 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24984-24985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10043]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


Importer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Application; Rhodes 
Technologies

    This is notice that on February 24, 2011, 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 
in schedule II:

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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 form 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 a basic class of any controlled substance

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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 17, 2012.
Joseph T. Rannazzisi,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-10043 Filed 4-25-12; 8:45 am]
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