USDA Releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement
July 20, 2007| |
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a draft of the Environmental Impact Statement, which is a requirement in revising its agricultural biotechnology regulations. Some of the regulation changes that are being considered include the following:
- Expanding regulatory oversight to biological control organisms and genetically engineered (GE) organisms that have the potential to be noxious weeds
- Expanding the tiered permitting system based on potential risk and familiarity with the GE organism
- Providing an alternative process to deregulation that will include conditional approvals
- Revising the permitting system for PMPs and PMIPs for multi-years with intensive reviews of standard operating procedures, audits, and inspections
- Building on its current AP policy, revising regulations for determining the safety of the low-level presence of regulated GE products
- Establishing a regulatory mechanism for imports of commodities that are not for propagative use
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