Originally Posted by Alfred E Newman

That call to the Oklahoma FSDO was a good move. It revealed that they HAD gotten and processed the request (and in a timely manner). It went back to JB, but not Sterling...so...sterling was stuck not knowing stuff was done and not able to then tell JB they had what they needed. I don't know what the deal is with them both sending in parallel requests, but that seems to be what happened and evidently the right hand wasn't talking to the left. After talking to the FAA, I got back to Sterling, told them what was going on and VOILA! background complete within the working day.
Moral of the story (at least from my perspective), not a fire-and-forget operation so keep tabs on it if it gets stalled out.

ps- FWIW, I was told 60 days for the ANDA (After 70 Sterling had nothing, but it had been sent to JB within about three weeks)