[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 52 (Friday, March 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 10720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6201]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 96-006-1]


Monsanto Co.; Addition of Two Genetically Engineered Insect 
Resistant Corn Lines to Determination of Nonregulated Status

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is announcing 
that it has added two additional genetically engineered, insect 
resistant corn lines to its August 22, 1995, determination that the 
Monsanto Company's corn line MON 80100 need no longer be regulated. The 
effect of this action is that two additional insect resistant corn 
lines designated as MON 809 and MON 810, which have been modified by 
the incorporation of genetic material described by the Monsanto 
Company, will no longer be subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ved Malik, Biotechnologist, Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service, Biotechnology, Biologics, and 
Environmental Protection, Biotechnology Permits, 4700 River Road Unit 
147, Riverdale, MD 20737-1237; (301) 734-7612.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 5, 1995, the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a notice in the Federal 
Register (60 FR 46107-46108, Docket No. 95-041-2) announcing the 
issuance of a determination effective August 22, 1995, that an insect 
resistant corn line developed by the Monsanto Company (Monsanto) 
designated as corn line MON 80100, does not present a plant pest risk 
and is not a regulated article under the regulations contained in 7 CFR 
part 340. This action was in response to a petition submitted by 
Monsanto seeking a determination from APHIS that its corn line MON 
80100 no longer be deemed a regulated article, based on an absence of 
plant pest risk. The effect of that action was that the subject corn 
line and its progeny would no longer be regulated under the regulations 
in 7 CFR part 340.
    The two additional corn lines that are the subject of this notice, 
MON 809 and MON 810, were identified in Monsanto's previously submitted 
petition (APHIS Petition No. 95-093-01p) for corn line MON 80100. On 
January 17, 1996, APHIS received additional information and field test 
data in a petition (APHIS Petition No. 96-017-01p) in support of 
nonregulated status under 7 CFR part 340 for corn lines MON 809 and MON 
810. As described by Monsanto, corn lines MON 809 and MON 810 express a 
CryIA(b) protein derived from the common soil bacterium Bacillus 
thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki which confers resistance to European corn 
borer. The subject corn lines were generated through use of the 
particle acceleration transformation system to insert plasmid vectors 
PV-ZMBK07 and PV-ZMGT10, the same vectors used to transform corn line 
MON 80100 for which the August 22, 1995, determination of nonregulated 
status was issued by APHIS.
    Corn lines MON 809 and MON 810 have been evaluated in field tests 
conducted in 1993 and 1994 under APHIS permits and notifications. 
Reports from field trials and other data indicate that the subject corn 
lines grow normally, exhibit the expected morphological, reproductive, 
and physiological properties, and do not have unexpected pest or 
disease susceptibility or symptoms. Therefore, the APHIS determination 
of nonregulated status of August 22, 1995, applies as well to 
Monsanto's two new transformed corn lines, MON 809 and MON 810.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 11th day of March 1996.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 96-6201 Filed 3-14-96; 8:45 am]
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