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- <ARTICLE>
- Date="07/27/95"
- Citation="60 FR 38576"
- Group="legal"
- Type="NOTICE"
- Department="DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
- Agency="DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA), JUSTICE"
- Subject="Controlled Substances: Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas for 1996"
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- Drug Enforcement Administration
-
- [DEA #134P]
-
- Controlled Substances: Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas
- for 1996
-
- AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Justice.
-
- ACTION: Notice of proposed aggregate production quotas for 1996.
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-
- Drug Enforcement Administration
-
- [DEA #134P]
-
- Controlled Substances: Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas
- for 1996
-
- AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Justice.
-
- ACTION: Notice of proposed aggregate production quotas for 1996.
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- SUMMARY: This notice proposes initial 1996 aggregate production
- quotas for controlled substances in Schedules I and II of the
- Controlled Substances Act.
-
- DATES: Comments or objections should be received on or before
- August 28, 1995.
-
- ADDRESSES: Send comments or objections to the Deputy 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, D.C. 20537, Telephone:
- (202) 307-7183.
-
- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 306 of the Controlled Substances
- Act (21 U.S.C. 826) requires that the Attorney General establish
- aggregate production quotas for each basic class of controlled
- substance listed in Schedules I and II. This responsibility
- has been delegated to the Administrator of the DEA by Section
- 0.100 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
-
- The Administrator, in turn, has redelegated this function
- to the Deputy Administrator pursuant to sec 0.104 of Title 28
- of the Code of Federal Regulations.
- The quotas are to provide adequate supplies of each substance
- for: (1) The estimated medical, scientific, research, and industrial
- needs of the United States; (2) lawful export requirements;
- and (3) the establishment and maintenance of reserve stocks.
- In determining the below listed proposed 1996 aggregate production
- quotas, the Deputy Administrator considered the following factors:
- (1) Total actual 1994 and estimated 1995 and 1996 net disposals
- of each substance by all manufacturers; (2) estimates of 1995
- year-end inventories of each substance and of any substance
- manufactured from it and trends in accumulation of such inventories;
- and (3) projected demand as indicated by procurement quota applications
- filed pursuant to sec 1303.12 of title 21 of the Code of Federal
- Regulations.
- Pursuant to sec 1303.23(c) of title 21 of the Code of Federal
- Regulations, the Deputy Administrator of the DEA will, in early
- 1996, adjust aggregate production quotas and individual manufacturing
- quotas allocated for the year based upon 1995 year-end inventory
- and actual 1995 disposition data supplied by quota recipients
- for each basic class of Schedule I or II controlled substance.
- Therefore, under the authority vested in the Attorney General
- by section 306 of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (21
- U.S.C. 826), delegated to the Administrator of the DEA by sec
- 0.100 of title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and redelegated
- to the Deputy Administrator pursuant to sec 0.104 of title 28
- of the Code of Federal Regulations, the Deputy Administrator
- hereby proposes that the aggregate production quotas for 1996
- for the following controlled substances, expressed in grams
- of anhydrous acid or base, be established as follows:
-
-
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- Basic class | Proposed
- | 1996 quotas
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- |
- Schedule I: |
- Acetylmethadol.............................................. | 7
- Alphacetylmethadol.......................................... | 7
- Aminorex.................................................... | 7
- Cathinone................................................... | 9
- Difenoxin................................................... | 14,000
- Dihydromorphine............................................. | 7
- 2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine.................................... | 10,650,000
- Dimethylamphetamine......................................... | 7
- Ethylamine Analog of Phencyclidine.......................... | 5
- N-Ethylamphetamine.......................................... | 7
- Lysergic acid diethylamide.................................. | 58
- Mescaline................................................... | 7
- Methaqualone................................................ | 17
- Methcathinone............................................... | 9
- 4-Methoxyamphetamine........................................ | 17
- 4-Methylaminorex............................................ | 2
- 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine............................... | 17
- 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine....................... | 27
- 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine........................... | 42
- 3-Methylfentanyl............................................ | 14
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- Normethadone................................................ | 7
- Normorphine................................................. | 7
- Psilocybin.................................................. | 2
- Psilocyn.................................................... | 2
- Tetrahydrocannibinols....................................... | 55,100
- Schedule II: |
- Alfentanil.................................................. | 8,500
- Amobarbital................................................. | 15
- Amphetamine................................................. | 1,300,100
- Cocaine..................................................... | 550,040
- Codeine (for sale).......................................... | 58,395,000
- Codeine (for conversion).................................... | 16,632,000
- Desoxyephedrine, 1,000,000 grams of levodesoxyephedrine for | 1,044,000
- use in a noncontrolled, nonprescription product and 44 kg |
- for methamphetamine. |
- Dextropropoxyphene.......................................... | 118,066,000
- Dihydrocodeine.............................................. | 60,000
- Diphenoxylate............................................... | 1,063,000
- Ecgonine (for conversion)................................... | 650,100
- Ethylmorphine............................................... | 12
- Fentanyl.................................................... | 120,100
- Hydrocodone (for sale)...................................... | 8,880,000
- Hydrocodone (for conversion)................................ | 2,800,000
- Hydromorphone............................................... | 448,000
- Isomethadone................................................ | 12
- Levo-alpha-acetylmethadol................................... | 200,000
- Levorphanol................................................. | 14,300
- Meperidine.................................................. | 10,822,000
- Methadone................................................... | 4,551,000
- Methadone (for conversion).................................. | 364,000
- Methadone Intermediate (for conversion)..................... | 5,534,000
- Methamphetamine (for conversion)............................ | 723,000
- Methylphenidate............................................. | 10,291,000
- Morphine (for sale)......................................... | 12,450,000
- Morphine (for conversion)................................... | 76,735,000
- Noroxymorphone (for sale)................................... | 2,000
- Noroxymorphone (for conversion)............................. | 2,406,000
- Opium....................................................... | 1,226,000
- Oxycodone (for sale)........................................ | 5,571,000
- Oxycodone (for conversion).................................. | 37,300
- Oxymorphone................................................. | 11,200
- Pentobarbital............................................... | 15,100,000
- Phencyclidine............................................... | 40
- Phenylacetone (for conversion).............................. | 5,280,000
- 1-Phenylcyclohexylamine..................................... | 10
- 1-Piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile......................... | 12
- Secobarbital................................................ | 400,000
- Sufentanil.................................................. | 1,000
- Thebaine.................................................... | 9,217,000
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-
- The Deputy Administrator further proposes that aggregate
- production quotas for all other Schedules I and II controlled
- substances included in secsec 1308.11 and 1308.12 of title 21 of
- the Code of Federal Regulations be established at zero.
- 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 Register, summarizing the issues
- to be heard and setting the time for the hearing.
- The Office of Management and Budget has determined that notices
- of aggregate production quotas are not subject to centralized
- review under Executive Order 12866. This action has been analyzed
- in accordance with the principles and criteria contained in
- Executive Order 12612, and it has been determined that this
- matter does not have sufficient federalism implications to 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 of annual aggregate production
- quotas for Schedules I and II controlled substances is mandated
- by law and by international treaty obligations. While aggregate
- production quotas are of primary importance to large manufacturers,
- their impact upon small entities is neither negative nor beneficial.
- Accordingly, the Deputy Administrator has determined that this
- action does not require a regulatory flexibility analysis.
-
- Dated: July 19, 1995.
-
- Stephen H. Greene,
- Deputy Administrator.
-
- [FR Doc. 95-18407 Filed 7-26-95; 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-
- 1996 proposed aggregate, 38576
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