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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Damone GADSDEN, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 10-1889.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Sept. 29, 2011.
    
      Theodore S. Green, Green & Willstatter White Plains, NY, for Appellant.
    Andrew Bauer, Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.
    PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge, ROBERTA. KATZMANN, SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Damone Gadsden appeals the district court’s amended judgment, resentencing him to concurrent terms of 262 months’ imprisonment, arguing that the district court erred by failing to order an updated presentencing report (“PSR”) in advance of resentencing, and that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (“FSA”) should be applied retroactively to Gadsden’s case. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues presented for review.

Gadsden argues that the district court was required to order an updated PSR from the United States Probation Office prior to his resentencing. Because Gadsden did not raise this objection below, we review for plain error. See United States v. Quintieri, 306 F.3d 1217, 1234 (2d Cir.2002). We find none. Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(c), a probation officer need not “conduct a presentence investigation and submit a report to the court before it imposes sentence” if the court finds that it can meaningfully exercise its sentencing authority based on information already in the record, and if “the court explains its finding on the record.” Although Rule 32(c) generally requires a PSR prior to an initial sentencing, “this rule does ‘not [similarly] mandate that the district court in all circumstances require an updated PSR in the event of resentencing.’ ” United States v. Triestman, 178 F.3d 624, 633 (2d Cir.1999) (alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Conhaim, 160 F.3d 893, 896 (2d Cir.1998)). In particular, no updated report is required when “the parties are given a full opportunity to be heard and to supplement the PSR as needed.” Id.; see also Quintieri, 306 F.3d at 1234. Gadsden was afforded the opportunity to supplement the original PSR with information pertaining to his behavior in prison since his initial sentencing. Gadsden’s counsel spoke at the re-sentencing hearing regarding Gadsden’s vocational and educational training while in prison, and also submitted a presentencing memorandum citing various certificates of achievement that he had been awarded. We find that the district court did not commit plain error in declining to order an updated PSR.

Gadsden also urges this Court to apply the provisions of the FSA retroactively to his case and remand to the district court in light of the Act’s revisions of the drug weight thresholds necessary to trigger mandatory minimum sentences for certain narcotics offenses. But we have expressly held that the FSA does not apply retroactively to crimes committed prior to its enactment. See United States v. Aeoff, 634 F.3d 200, 201-02 (2d Cir.2011) (per curiam); United States v. Diaz, 627 F.3d 930, 931 (2d Cir.2010) (per curiam).

For the foregoing reasons, the amended judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.