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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Paz MATA, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 05-51116.
    Conference Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided Aug. 28, 2006.
    Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Michael F. White, Temple, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before DAVIS, SMITH, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Jose Paz Mata pleaded guilty without a plea agreement to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least 100 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a), 841(b)(l)(B)(vii), and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h). The district court sentenced Mata to concurrent terms of 108 months of imprisonment as to each count, five years of supervised release as to count one, and three years of supervised release as to count two.

Mata argues that the district court plainly erred in imposing a term of supervised release of five years as to count one, and urges this court to reduce that term to three years. Mata did not raise this issue in the district court. Therefore, we will review the district court’s decision for plain error. See United States v. Allison, 447 F.3d 402, 405 (5th Cir.2006).

As a person convicted of a class B felony, see § 841(b)(1)(B), 18 U.S.C. § 3559(a)(2), Mata was subject to a term of supervised release of “not more than five years.” 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(1). The statute Mata was convicted of violating in count one provides that “[njotwithstanding section 3583 of title 18, any sentence imposed under this subparagraph shall, in the absence of ... a prior conviction, include a term of supervised release of at least 4 years.” § 841(b)(1)(B). Mata’s five-year term of supervised release complies with both statutory provisions. Accordingly, the district court committed no error, plain or otherwise, and we AFFIRM the judgment. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.