Importer of Controlled Substances Application: Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Federal Register: February 20, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 33)
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Drug Enforcement Administration
Importer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Application
Pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 958(i), the Attorney General shall, prior to issuing a registration under this section to a bulk manufacturer of a controlled substance in schedule I or II, and prior to issuing a regulation under 21 U.S.C. 952(a)(2) authorizing the importation of such a substance, provide manufacturers holding registrations for the bulk manufacture of the substance an opportunity for a hearing.
Therefore, in accordance with Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), 1301.34(a), this is notice that on January 16, 2009, Supernus
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 1550 East Gude Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, made application by renewal to the Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) to be registered as
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an importer of the basic classes of controlled substances listed in schedule II:
Drug
Schedule
Oxycodone (9143)............................ II
Morphine (9300)............................. II
The company plans to import controlled substances for clinical trials and analytical testing.
Any bulk manufacturer who is presently, or is applying to be, registered with DEA to manufacture such basic classes of controlled substances may 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 comments or objections should be addressed, in quintuplicate, to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of
Diversion Control, Federal Register Representative (ODL), 8701
Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152; and must be filed no later than March 23, 2009.
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 substances in schedule 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: February 13, 2009.
Joseph T. Rannazzisi,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug
Enforcement Administration.
FR Doc. E9-3650 Filed 2-19-09; 8:45 am
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