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110 STAT. 3110 PUBLIC LAW 104-237—OCT. 3, 1996 in which the Attorney General will provide the factual basis for establishing the new single transaction limits. (4) DEFINITION OF BUSINESS.— For purposes of this subsection, the term "business" means the entity that makes the direct sale and does not include the parent company of a business not involved in a direct sale regulated by this subsection. (5) JUDICIAL REVIEW.— Any regulation promulgated by the Attorney General under this section shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to section 507 of the Controlled Substsuices Act (21 U.S.C. 877). 21 USC 802 note. (e) EFFECT ON THRESHOLDS. —Nothing in the amendments made by subsection (b) or the provisions of subsection (d) shall affect the authority of the Attorney General to modify thresholds (including cumulative thresholds) for retail distributors for products other than ordinary over-the-counter pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products (as defined in section 102(45) of the Controlled Substances Act, as added by this section) or for non-retail distributors, importers, or exporters. 21 USC 802 note. (f) COMBINATION EPHEDRINE PRODUCTS. — (1) IN GENERAL.— For the purposes of this section, combination ephedrine products shall be treated the same as pseudoephedrine products, except that— (A) a single transaction limit of 24 grams shall be effective as of the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to sales of all combination ephedrine products, notwithstanding the form in which those products are packaged, made by retail distributors or distributors required to submit a report under section 310(b)(3) of the Controlled Substances Act (as added by section 402 of this Act); (B) for regulated transactions for combination ephedrine products other than sales described in subparagraph (A), the transaction limit shall be— (i) 1 kilogram of ephedrine base, effective on the date of enactment of this Act; or (ii) a threshold other than the threshold described in clause (i), if established by the Attorney General not earlier than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act; and (C) the penalties provided in subsection (d)(1)(B) of this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act for any individual or business that violates the single transaction limit of 24 grams for combination ephedrine products. (2) DEFINITION. —For the purposes of this section, the term "combination ephedrine product" means a drug product containing ephedrine or its salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers and therapeutically significant quantities of another active medicinal ingredient. 21 USC 802 note. (g) EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, this section shall not apply to the sale of any pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine product prior to 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act, except that, on application of a manufacturer of a particular pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine drug product, the Attorney General may, in her sole discretion, extend such effective date up to an additional