USA
August 1, 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) announces our intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts that may result from the approval of a petition for deregulation of a creeping bentgrass genetically engineered for glyphosate resistance.
 
We request that the public review our Notice of Intent (NOI) and provide comment to help us identify potential issues and impacts that APHIS should consider in our evaluation of the petition from Scotts Company and Monsanto Company. The NOI will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days.

APHIS will consider all public input submitted during the 30-day comment period on the NOI and use the information as we work to complete, and then publish, the draft EIS. There will be another public comment period after publication of the draft EIS.

The petition and related information are available below. Upon publication of the NOI in the Federal Register on August 3, 2016, comments can be submitted to Docket No. APHIS-2015-0096 on our public comment portal at www.regulations.gov for 30 days.

Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement

APHIS Petition No. 15-300-01p

(The 30-day public Comment Period on the NOI begins August 3, 2016.)
Docket No. APHIS-2015-0096

Website: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

Published: August 1, 2016