[Federal Register: October 11, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 196)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 59697-59698]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr11oc06-11]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 174
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0642; FRL-8095-2]

Plant-incorporated protectants derived from a plant viral coat protein gene (PVCP-PIPs); Notification to the Secretary of Agriculture

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notification to the Secretary of Agriculture.

SUMMARY: This document notifies the public that the Administrator of EPA has forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture a draft proposed rule as required by section 25(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). As described in the Agency's semi-annual Regulatory Agenda, the draft proposed rule would add certain plant-incorporated protectants based on viral coat protein genes (PVCP-PIPs) to its plant-incorporated protectants exemptions at 40 CFR part 174. Substances that plants produce for protection against pests and the genetic material necessary to produce them are pesticides under FIFRA if humans intend these substances to "prevent, repel or mitigate any pest.''

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