[Federal Register: April 11, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 68)]
[Notices]              
[Page 18352-18353]
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. 03-101-4]

Environmental impact statement; petition for deregulation of genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant creeping bentgrass

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings and request for comments.

SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will be holding two public scoping forums to promote further public involvement in the development of an environmental
impact statement as part of our consideration of a petition received from Monsanto Company and The Scotts Company for a determination of nonregulated status for a glyphosate-tolerant creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera). The information received in response to this notice, as well as the information received previously, will be considered during development of an environmental impact statement prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act.

DATES: We will consider written comments submitted at public scoping forums that will be held in Chevy Chase, MD on May 3, 2005, and in Corvallis, OR on May 18, 2005. Each public forum will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., local time. We will also consider written comments submitted by other means that we receive on or before June 1, 2005.

Complete document in PDF format:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-1641.pdf