Monsanto Company and KWS SAAT AG; Determination of Nonregulated Status of Sugar Beet Genetically Engineered for Tolerance to the Herbicide Glyphosate

National Environmental Policy Act and Record of Decision To provide the public with documentation of APHIS' review and analysis of the potential environmental impacts of sugar beet event H7-1 and interrelated socioeconomic impacts associated with a determination of nonregulated status of sugar...

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Published inAgriculture Department Documents and Publications
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Federal Information & News Dispatch, LLC 20.07.2012
Subjects
Environmental impact
Environmental impact statements
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Environmental quality
Genetic engineering
National Environmental Policy Act
Petitions
Plant protection
Reading
Risk assessment
Sugar
Sugar industry
Washington DC
United States > US
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Summary:National Environmental Policy Act and Record of Decision To provide the public with documentation of APHIS' review and analysis of the potential environmental impacts of sugar beet event H7-1 and interrelated socioeconomic impacts associated with a determination of nonregulated status of sugar beet event H7-1, an EIS has been prepared in accordance with: (1) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); (3) USDA regulations implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS' NEPA Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 372). [...]the petition requesting a determination of nonregulated status is approved, and sugar beet event H7-1 is no longer subject to our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms and to the plant pest provisions of the Plant Protection Act.