[Federal Register: September 8, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 174)]
[Notices]              
[Page 53076-53077]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2006-0140]
 
Bayer CropScience - Availability of an environmental assessment and a preliminary decision for an extension of a determination of nonregulated status for rice genetically engineered for glufosinate herbicide tolerance

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared an environmental assessment for a preliminary decision to extend a determination of nonregulated status. The original determination and the requested extension involve rice lines genetically engineered to be tolerant to the herbicide glufosinate. We have received a petition from Bayer CropScience requesting the extension for a rice line, designated as LLRICE601, based on its similarity to previously deregulated rice lines, LLRICE62 and LLRICE06.

DATES: We will consider all comments we receive on or before October 10, 2006.

Full notice in PDF format: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-14921.pdf