2017-01976: Revision of Import and Export Requirements for Controlled Substances, Listed Chemicals, and Tableting and Encapsulating Machines, Including Changes To Implement the International Trade Data System (ITDS); Revision of Reporting Requirements for Domestic Transactions in Listed Chemicals and Tableting and Encapsulating Machines; and Technical Amendments

Summary

On December 30, 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule to implement requirements associated with the International Trade Data System (ITDS) that will help streamline the export/import of tableting and encapsulating machines, controlled substances, and listed chemicals. That rule is scheduled to become effective January 30, 2017. In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2017, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," this action hereby temporarily delays until March 21, 2017, the effective date of the final rule entitled "Revision of Import and Export Requirements for Controlled Substances, Listed Chemicals, and Tableting and Encapsulating Machines, Including Changes to Implement the International Trade Data System (ITDS); Revision of Reporting Requirements for Domestic Transactions in Listed Chemicals and Tableting and Encapsulating Machines; and Technical Amendments" (RIN 1117-AB41) published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2016, at 81 FR 96992. The temporary delay in the effective date will allow Department of Justice officials an opportunity to review any potential questions of fact, law and policy raised by this regulation, consistent with the Chief of Staff's memorandum of January 20, 2017.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 14 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 21 CFR 1300 Definitions
• 21 CFR 1301 Registration of Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dispensers of Controlled Substances
• 21 CFR 1302 Labeling and Packaging Requirements for Controlled Substances
• 21 CFR 1303 Quotas
• 21 CFR 1304 Records and Reports of Registrants
• 21 CFR 1308 Schedules of Controlled Substances
• 21 CFR 1309 Registration of Manufacturers, Distributors, Importers and Exporters of List I Chemicals
• 21 CFR 1310 Records and Reports of Listed Chemicals and Certain Machines; Importation and Exportation of Certain Machines
• 21 CFR 1312 Importation and Exportation of Controlled Substances
• 21 CFR 1313 Importation and Exportation of List I and List II Chemicals
• 21 CFR 1314 Retail Sale of Scheduled Listed Chemical Products
• 21 CFR 1315 Importation and Production Quotas for Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, and Phenylpropanolamine
• 21 CFR 1316 Administrative Functions, Practices, and Procedures
• 21 CFR 1321 DEA Mailing Addresses