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- <ARTICLE>
- Date="05/09/95"
- Citation="60 FR 24649"
- Group="legal"
- Type="NOTICE"
- Department="DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
- Agency="DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION"
- Subject="Controlled Substances: Proposed 1995 Aggregate Production Quotas"
- <HEADER>
- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
-
- Drug Enforcement Administration
-
- [DEA No. 132P]
-
- Controlled Substances: Proposed 1995 Aggregate Production Quotas
-
- AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration.
-
- ACTION: Notice of proposed revised aggregate production quotas
- for 1995.
- </HEADER>
- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
-
- Drug Enforcement Administration
-
- [DEA No. 132P]
-
- Controlled Substances: Proposed 1995 Aggregate Production Quotas
-
- AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration.
-
- ACTION: Notice of proposed revised aggregate production quotas
- for 1995.
- +
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- SUMMARY: This notice proposes revised 1995 aggregate production
- quotas for controlled substances in Schedules I and II, as required
- under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
-
- DATES: Comments or objections should be received on or before
- June 8, 1995.
-
- ADDRESSES: Send comments or objections to the Administrator,
- Drug Enforcement Administration, Washington, DC 20537, Attn:
- DEA Federal Register Representative/CCR.
-
- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Howard McClain, Jr., Chief,
- Drug & Chemical Evaluation Section, Drug Enforcement Administration,
- Washington, DC 20537, Telephone: (202) 307-7183.
-
- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 306 of the Controlled Substances
- Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. 826) requires that the Attorney General
- establish aggregate production quotas for all controlled substances
- listed in Schedules I and II. This responsibility has been delegated
- to the Administrator of the DEA pursuant to sec 0.100 of Title
- 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
-
- The Administrator, in turn, has redelegated this function
- to the Deputy Administrator of the DEA by sec 0.104 of Title 28
- of the Code of Federal Regulations.
- On October 20, 1994, a notice of the 1995 established aggregate
- production quotas was published in the Federal Register (59
- FR 52991). The notice stipulated that the Deputy Administrator
- of the DEA would adjust the quotas in early 1995 as provided
- for in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, sec 1303.23(c).
- These aggregate production quotas represent those amounts of
- controlled substances that may be produced in the United States
- in 1995 and do not include amounts which may be imported for
- use in industrial processes.
- The proposed revisions are based on a review of 1994 year-
- end inventories, 1994 disposition data submitted by quota applicants,
- estimates of the medical needs of the United States submitted
- to the DEA by the Food and Drug Administration and other information
- available to the DEA.
- Therefore, under the authority vested in the Attorney General
- by section 306 of the CSA of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 826), delegated
- to the Administrator by sec 0.100 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal
- Regulations, and redelegated to the Deputy Administrator by
- sec 0.104 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the
- Deputy Administrator of the DEA hereby proposes the following
- changes in the 1995 aggregate production quotas for the listed
- controlled substances, expressed in grams of anhydrous acid
- or base.
-
-
-
-
- ----------------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------
- | Previously | Proposed
- | established | revised 1995
- Basic class | 1995 | aggregate
- | aggregate | production
- | production | quotas
- | quotas |
- ----------------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------
- | |
- Schedule I: | |
- Acetylmethadol .................................. | 2 | 7
- Alphacetymethadol ............................... | 0 | 5
- Aminorex ........................................ | 2 | 7
- Bufotenine ...................................... | 10 | 10
- Cathinone ....................................... | 4 | 9
- Difenoxin ....................................... | 14,000 | 14,00
- ---- page 24650 ----
- Dihydromorphine ................................. | 0 | 5
- 2,5-Dimethylamphetamine ......................... | 15,650,000 | 15,650,000
- Dimethylamphetamine ............................. | 2 | 7
- Ethylamine analog of Phencyclidine .............. | 0 | 5
- N-Ethylamphetamine .............................. | 4 | 9
- Lysergic acid diethylamide ...................... | 41 | 56
- Mescaline ....................................... | 2 | 7
- Methaqualone .................................... | 2 | 7
- Methcathinone ................................... | 9 | 14
- 4-Methoxyamphetamine ............................ | 12 | 17
- 4-Methylaminorex ................................ | 2 | 2
- 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine ................... | 12 | 17
- 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine ........... | 2 | 27
- 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ............... | 12 | 17
- 3-Methylfentanyl ................................ | 12 | 14
- Normethadone .................................... | 0 | 5
- Normorphine ..................................... | 2 | 7
- Tetrahydrocannabinols ........................... | 35,000 | 35,000
- Thiophene Analog of Phencyclidine ............... | 10 | 10
- Schedule II: | |
- Alfentanil ...................................... | 7,000 | 7,000
- Amobarbital ..................................... | 5 | 15
- Amphetamine ..................................... | 1,026,100 | 1,026,100
- Cocaine ......................................... | 550,000 | 550,000
- Codeine (for sale) .............................. | 67,312,000 | 67,312,000
- Codeine (for conversion) ........................ | 16,181,000 | 16,181,000
- Desoxyephedrine ................................. | 900,000 | 1,154,000
- (1,138,000 grams of levo-desoxyephedrine for use in a non-controlled, non-
- prescription product and 16,000 grams for methamphetamine)
- Dextropropoxyphene ................................ | 124,012,000 | 124,012,000
- Dihydrocodeine .................................... | 202,000 | 100,000
- Diphenoxylate ..................................... | 688,000 | 346,000
- Ecgonine (for conversion) ......................... | 650,000 | 650,000
- Ethylmorphine ..................................... | 0 | 10
- Fentanyl .......................................... | 76,000 | 52,000
- Hydrocodone ....................................... | 8,474,000 | 8,474,000
- Hydromorphone ..................................... | 404,000 | 404,000
- Isomethadone ...................................... | 0 | 10
- Levo-alpha-acetylmethadol ......................... | 200,000 | 200,000
- Levorphanol ....................................... | 8,000 | 8,000
- Meperidine ........................................ | 8,637,000 | 9,521,000
- Methadone ......................................... | 3,779,000 | 3,779,000
- Methadone (for conv)............................... | 364,000 | 364,000
- Methadone Intermediate (for sale) ................. | 300,000 | 0
- Methadone Int. (for conv) ......................... | 4,393,000 | 4,393,000
- Methylphenidate ................................... | 8,886,000 | 10,410,000
- Morphine (for sale) ............................... | 7,612,000 | 7,612,000
- Morphine (for conv) ............................... | 78,105,000 | 78,105,000
- Noroxymorphone (for sale) ......................... | 21,000 | 21,000
- Noroxymorphone (for conv) ......................... | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000
- Opium ............................................. | 1,118,000 | 1,304,000
- Oxycodone (for sale) .............................. | 3,613,00 | 4,254,000
- Oxycodone (for conv) .............................. | 23,000 | 25,500
- Oxymorphone ....................................... | 9,200 | 10,200
- Pentobarbital ..................................... | 15,706,000 | 15,706,000
- Phencyclidine ..................................... | 52 | 72
- Phenylacetone (for conv) .......................... | 3,528,000 | 3,528,000
- 1-Phenylcyclohexylamine ........................... | 0 | 10
- 1-Piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile ............... | 0 | 10
- Secobarbital ...................................... | 480,000 | 322,000
- Sufentanil ........................................ | 1,600 | 1,600
- Thebaine .......................................... | 9,383,000 | 9,383,000
- ----------------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------
-
- All interested persons are invited to submit their comments
- and objections in writing regarding this proposal. A person
- may object to or comment on the proposal relating to any of
- the above mentioned substances without filing comments or objections
- regarding the others. If a person believes that one or more
- of these issues warrant a hearing, the individual should so
- state and summarize the reasons for this belief.
- In the event that comments or objections to this proposal
- raise one or more issues which the Deputy Administrator finds
- warrant a hearing, the Deputy Administrator shall order a public
- hearing by notice in the Federal
-
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-
- Register, summarizing the issues to be heard and setting the
- time for the hearing.
- The Office of Management and budget has determined that notice
- of aggregate production quotas are not subject to centralized
- review under Executive Order 12866.
- Rules establishing aggregate production quotas for controlled
- substances in Schedules I and II are required by statute, fulfill
- United States obligations under the Single Convention on Narcotic
- Drugs, 1961, and other international treaties, and are essential
- to a criminal law enforcement function of the United States.
- Without the periodic establishment and adjustment of aggregate
- production quotas, pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United
- States could not lawfully produce a wide variety of medically
- necessary pharmaceutical drugs.
- These actions have been analyzed in accordance with the principles
- and criteria contained in Executive Order 12612 and it has been
- determined that this matter raises no Federalism implications
- which would warrant the preparation of a Federalism Assessment.
- The Deputy Administrator hereby certifies that this action
- will have no significant impact upon small entities whose interests
- must be considered under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C.
- 601, et seq. The establishment and revision of annual production
- quotas for Schedules I and II controlled substances is mandated
- by law and by the international obligations of the United States.
- Such quotas impact predominantly upon major manufacturers of
- the affected controlled substances.
-
- Dated: May 3, 1995.
-
- Stephen H. Greene,
- Deputy Administrator.
-
- [FR Doc. 95-11370 Filed 5-8-95; 8:45 am]
- BILLING CODE 4410-09-M
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- The Contents entry for this article reads as follows:
-
- Schedules of controlled substances; production quotas:
- Schedules I and II-1995 proposed aggregate, 24649
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