[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 69447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27661]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


Importer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Application; GE 
Healthcare

    Pursuant to Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations 1301.34(a), this 
is notice that on September 18, 2013, GE Healthcare, 3350 North Ridge 
Avenue, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004-1412, made application by 
renewal to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be registered 
as an importer of Cocaine (9041), a basic class of controlled substance 
listed in schedule II.
    The company plans to import small quantities of ioflupane, in the 
form of three separate analogues of Cocaine that will be used for the 
support and manufacture of DaTSCAN (ioflupane 1-123) injection for 
distribution as a radioactive diagnostic imaging agent utilized in the 
diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
    Any bulk manufacturer who is presently, or is applying to be, 
registered with DEA to manufacture such basic class of controlled 
substance listed in schedules I and II, which falls under the authority 
of section 1002(a)(2)(B) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 952(a)(2)(B)) may, in 
the circumstances set forth in 21 U.S.C. 958(i), file comments or 
objections to the issuance of the proposed registration and may, at the 
same time, file a written request for a hearing on such application 
pursuant to 21 CFR 1301.43, and in such form as prescribed by 21 CFR 
1316.47.
    Any such written comments or objections should be addressed, in 
quintuplicate, to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of 
Diversion Control, Federal Register Representative (ODW), 8701 
Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152; and must be filed no 
later than December 19, 2013.
    This procedure is to be conducted simultaneously with, and 
independent of, the procedures described in 21 CFR 1301.34(b), (c), 
(d), (e), and (f). As noted in a previous notice published in the 
Federal Register on September 23, 1975, 40 FR 43745-46, all applicants 
for registration to import a basic class 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: November 5, 2013.
Joseph T. Rannazzisi,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-27661 Filed 11-18-13; 8:45 am]
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