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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Deschutes Provincial Advisory
Committee (DPAC)
Forest Service.
Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Deschutes Provincial
Advisory Committee will meet on July
31, starting at 8 a.m. at the Deschutes
National Forest Supervisor’s Office,
1001 SW., Emkay Drive, Bend, Oregon.
There will be a 1 hour business meeting.
Then, members will go to the field to
the Bend Ft. Rock Ranger District to
discuss winter recreation. The trip is
scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m. All
Deschutes Province Advisory
Committee Meetings are open to the
public and an open public forum is
scheduled from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Chris Mickle, Province Liaison, Crescent
Ranger District, Highway 97, Crescent,
Oregon 97733, Phone (541) 433–3216.
John Allen,
Deschutes National Forest Supervisor.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2007–0030]
Monsanto Company; Availability of
Determination of Nonregulated Status
for Corn Genetically Engineered for
Insect Resistance
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We are advising the public of
our determination that a corn line
developed by the Monsanto Company,
designated as transformation event
MON 89034, which has been genetically
engineered for insect resistance, is no
longer considered a regulated article
under our regulations governing the
introduction of certain genetically
engineered organisms. Our
determination is based on our
evaluation of data submitted by the
Monsanto Company in their petition for
a determination of nonregulated status,
our analysis of other scientific data, and
comments received from the public in
response to a previous notice
announcing the availability of the
petition for nonregulated status and its
associated environmental assessment.
This notice also announces the
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availability of our written determination
and our finding of no significant impact.
DATES: Effective Date: July 24, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may read the petition,
environmental assessment,
determination, finding of no significant
impact, the comments we received on
our previous notice, and our responses
to those comments in our reading room.
The reading room is located in room
1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th
Street and Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC. Normal reading room
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except holidays. To be
sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 690–2817 before
coming. Those documents may also be
viewed on the Internet at https://
www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/
component/
main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS2007-0030.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Robyn Rose, Biotechnology Regulatory
Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit
147, Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301)
734–0489, e-mail:
robyn.i.rose@aphis.usda.gov. To obtain
copies of the petition, environmental
assessment, or the finding of no
significant impact, contact Ms. Cindy
Eck at (301) 734–0667, e-mail:
cynthia.a.eck@aphis.usda.gov. To view
those documents on the Internet, go to
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/
aphisdocs/06_29801p.pdf and https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/aphisdocs/
06_29801p_ea.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The regulations in 7 CFR part 340,
‘‘Introduction of Organisms and
Products Altered or Produced Through
Genetic Engineering Which Are Plant
Pests or Which There Is Reason to
Believe Are Plant Pests,’’ regulate,
among other things, the introduction
(importation, interstate movement, or
release into the environment) of
organisms and products altered or
produced through genetic engineering
that are plant pests or that there is
reason to believe are plant pests. Such
genetically engineered organisms and
products are considered ‘‘regulated
articles.’’
The regulations in § 340.6(a) provide
that any person may submit a petition
to the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) seeking a
determination that an article should not
be regulated under 7 CFR part 340.
Paragraphs (b) and (c) of § 340.6
describe the form that a petition for a
determination of nonregulated status
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must take and the information that must
be included in the petition.
On October 26, 2006, APHIS received
a petition seeking a determination of
nonregulated status (APHIS No. 06–
298–01p) from the Monsanto Company
(Monsanto) of St. Louis, MO, for corn
(Zea mays L.) designated as
transformation event MON 89034,
which has been genetically engineered
for resistance to European corn borer
and other lepidopteran pests, stating
that corn line MON 89034 does not
present a plant pest risk and, therefore,
should not be a regulated article under
APHIS’ regulations in 7 CFR part 340.
Monsanto responded to APHIS’
subsequent request for additional
information and clarification and
submitted an addendum to their
petition on January 23, 2007.
Analysis
As described in the petition, corn
transformation event MON 89034 has
been genetically engineered to express
the transgenes cry1A.105 and cry2Ab2,
both of which were derived from a wellcharacterized gene sequence from
Bacillus thuringiensis, and encode
insect control proteins. The neomycin
phosphotransferase II (nptII) gene was
used as a selectable marker, but was
eliminated by traditional breeding
methods in the later stages of
development of MON 89034. Thus,
MON 89034 contains only the
cry1A.105 and cry2Ab2 expression
cassettes. Expression of the transgenes
by corn plants renders the corn line
resistant to European corn borer, as well
as other lepidopteran pests. Regulatory
elements for the transgenes were
obtained from Agrobacterium
tumefaciens. These regulatory
sequences are not transcribed and do
not encode proteins. The DNA was
introduced into corn cells using
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
methodology with the T–DNA binary
transformation vector designated PV
ZMIR245.
In a notice 1 published in the Federal
Register on December 13, 2007 (72 FR
70817–70819, Docket No. APHIS–2007–
0030), we announced our receipt of the
Monsanto petition and solicited
comments on whether MON 89034 corn
is or could be a plant pest. In that
notice, we also made available for
public comment a draft environmental
assessment we prepared to analyze any
potential environmental effects
associated with the proposed
1 To view the notice, petition, environmental
assessment, and the comments we received, go to
https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/
main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS–2007–0030.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee (DPAC)
AGENCY: Forest Service.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on July
31, starting at 8 a.m. at the Deschutes National Forest Supervisor's
Office, 1001 SW., Emkay Drive, Bend, Oregon. There will be a 1 hour
business meeting. Then, members will go to the field to the Bend Ft.
Rock Ranger District to discuss winter recreation. The trip is
scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m. All Deschutes Province Advisory Committee
Meetings are open to the public and an open public forum is scheduled
from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Mickle, Province Liaison,
Crescent Ranger District, Highway 97, Crescent, Oregon 97733, Phone
(541) 433-3216.
John Allen,
Deschutes National Forest Supervisor.
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