81 FR 65622 - J.R. Simplot Company; Availability of Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact, Preliminary Plant Pest Risk Similarity Assessment, and Preliminary Determination for an Extension of a Determination of Nonregulated Status for X17 and Y9 Potato Varieties

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 185 (September 23, 2016)

Page Range		65622-65623
FR Document		2016-22928

We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has reached a preliminary decision to extend our determination of nonregulated status of J.R. Simplot Company's (Simplot) Innate<SUP>TM</SUP> Potato designated as Russet Burbank event W8 (the antecedent potato event) to Simplot's Ranger Russet variety (X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9) potatoes. Simplot's X17 and Y9 potatoes have been genetically engineered for late blight resistance, low acrylamide potential, lowered reducing sugars, and reduced black spot using the same genetic constructs used to transform the antecedent potato event. We are making available for public comment our preliminary determination, preliminary plant pest risk similarity assessment, and preliminary finding of no significant impact for the proposed determination of nonregulated status.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2016-0057]


J.R. Simplot Company; Availability of Preliminary Finding of No 
Significant Impact, Preliminary Plant Pest Risk Similarity Assessment, 
and Preliminary Determination for an Extension of a Determination of 
Nonregulated Status for X17 and Y9 Potato Varieties

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service has reached a preliminary decision to extend our 
determination of nonregulated status of J.R. Simplot Company's 
(Simplot) Innate^TM Potato designated as Russet Burbank event 
W8 (the antecedent potato event) to Simplot's Ranger Russet variety 
(X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9) potatoes. Simplot's X17 and Y9 potatoes 
have been genetically engineered for late blight resistance, low 
acrylamide potential, lowered reducing sugars, and reduced black spot 
using the same genetic constructs used to transform the antecedent 
potato event. We are making available for public comment our 
preliminary determination, preliminary plant pest risk similarity 
assessment, and preliminary finding of no significant impact for the 
proposed determination of nonregulated status.

DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before 
October 24, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2016-0057.
     Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to 
Docket No. APHIS-2016-0057, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, 
APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1238.
    The J.R. Simplot Company extension request, our preliminary 
determination, preliminary plant pest risk similarity assessment, 
preliminary finding of no significant impact, and any comments we 
receive on this docket may be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2016-0057 or in our reading room, which is 
located in Room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure 
someone is there to help you, please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
    Supporting documents and any comments we received regarding our 
determination of nonregulated status of the antecedent organism (potato 
event W8) can be found at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0076. Supporting documents may also be 
found on the APHIS Web site for X17 and Y9 (the organisms under 
evaluation) under APHIS Petition Number 16-064-01p, and the antecedent 
organism (potato event W8) under APHIS Petition Number 14-093-01p.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John Turner, Director, 
Biotechnology Risk Analysis Programs, Biotechnology Regulatory 
Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; 
(301) 851-3954, email: [email protected]. To obtain copies 
of the supporting documents, contact Ms. Cindy Eck at (301) 851-3885, 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the authority of the plant pest 
provisions of the Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), 
the regulations in 7 CFR part 340, ``Introduction of Organisms and 
Products Altered or Produced Through Genetic Engineering Which Are 
Plant Pests or Which There Is Reason to Believe Are Plant Pests,'' 
regulate, among other things, the introduction (importation, interstate 
movement, or release into the environment) of organisms and products 
altered or produced through genetic engineering that are plant pests or 
that there is reason to believe are plant pests. Such genetically 
engineered organisms and products are considered ``regulated 
articles.''
    The regulations in Sec.  340.6(a) provide that any person may 
submit a petition to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
(APHIS) seeking a determination that an article should not be regulated 
under 7 CFR part 340. Further, the regulations in Sec.  340.6(e)(2) 
provide that a person may request that APHIS extend a determination of 
nonregulated status to other organisms. Such a request must include 
information to establish the similarity of the antecedent organism and 
the regulated article in question.
    In a notice \1\ published in the Federal Register on September 2, 
2015 (80 FR 53101-53102, Docket No. APHIS-2014-0076), APHIS announced 
our determination of nonregulated status of the J.R. Simplot Company's 
(Simplot) Innate^TM Potato designated as Russet Burbank event 
W8, which has been genetically engineered for late blight resistance, 
low acrylamide potential, reduced black spot bruising, and lowered 
reducing sugars. APHIS has received a request from Simplot for an 
extension of that determination of nonregulated status to its Ranger 
Russet variety (X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9) potatoes (APHIS Petition 
Number 16-064-01p). In the extension request, Simplot named the 
previously deregulated W8 potato event as the antecedent organism. Like 
the antecedent, X17 and Y9 are genetically engineered for late blight 
resistance, low acrylamide potential, reduced black spot bruising, and 
lowered reducing sugars. In its request, Simplot stated that X17 and Y9 
potatoes were produced by using the same genetic construct that was 
used to transform the antecedent potato and, based on the similarity, 
is unlikely to pose a plant pest risk. Therefore, the request stated 
that X17 and Y9 potatoes should not be regulated articles under APHIS' 
regulations in 7 CFR part 340.
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and the comments we have received, go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS=2014=0076.
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    As part of our decisionmaking process regarding a genetically 
engineered organism's regulatory status, APHIS evaluates the plant pest 
risk of the regulated article. In section 403 of the

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PPA, ``plant pest'' is defined as any living stage of any of the 
following that can directly or indirectly injure, cause damage to, or 
cause disease in any plant product: A protozoan, a nonhuman animal, a 
parasitic plant, a bacterium, a fungus, a virus or viroid, an 
infectious agent or other pathogen, or any article similar to or allied 
with any of the foregoing.
    As described in the extension request, X17 and Y9 potatoes have 
been genetically engineered through the insertion of genetic elements 
from plant pest organisms listed in 7 CFR 340.2. APHIS previously 
completed a plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) associated with the 
insertion of these same genetic elements into potatoes during the 
review of the antecedent variety, Innate^TM Russet Burbank 
event W8 potato, and concluded that the resulting organisms did not 
pose a plant pest risk.
    X17 and Y9 potatoes express the same resistance for late blight 
resistance, low acrylamide potential, reduced black spot bruising, and 
lowered reducing sugars as the antecedent potato. APHIS prepared a 
plant pest risk similarity assessment (PPRSA) to compare X17 and Y9 
potatoes to the antecedent. As described in the PPRSA, X17 and Y9 
potatoes were obtained by introducing the same construct used to 
produce Innate^TM Russet Burbank event W8 into the Ranger 
Russet variety (X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9). Based on our PPRA for 
the antecedent and the similarity between X17 and Y9 potatoes and the 
antecedent based on the PPRSA, APHIS has concluded that X17 and Y9 
potatoes are unlikely to pose a plant pest risk.
    The environmental assessment (EA) for the antecedent organism was 
prepared using data submitted by Simplot, a review of other scientific 
data, and field tests conducted under APHIS oversight. The EA was 
prepared to provide the APHIS decisionmaker with a review and analysis 
of any potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed 
determination of nonregulated status of the antecedent potato. The EA 
was prepared in accordance with (1) the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); (2) 
regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality for implementing 
the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); (3) USDA 
regulations implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS' NEPA 
Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 372).
    Based on the similarity of X17 and Y9 potatoes to the antecedent 
potato, APHIS has prepared a preliminary finding of no significant 
impact (FONSI) on X17 and Y9 potatoes using the EA prepared for W8 
potato. APHIS considered the following alternatives: (1) Take no 
action, i.e., APHIS would not change the regulatory status of X17 or Y9 
potatoes and it would continue to be a regulated article, or (2) make a 
determination of nonregulated status of X17 and Y9 potatoes. APHIS' 
preferred alternative is to make a determination of nonregulated status 
of X17 and Y9 potatoes.
    APHIS has carefully examined the existing NEPA documentation 
completed for W8 potato and has concluded that Simplot's request to 
extend a determination of nonregulated status to X17 and Y9 potatoes 
encompasses the same scope of environmental analysis as the antecedent 
potato.
    Based on APHIS' analysis of information submitted by Simplot, 
references provided in the extension request, peer-reviewed 
publications, information analyzed in the EA, and the similarity of X17 
and Y9 potatoes to the antecedent organisms, APHIS has determined that 
X17 and Y9 potatoes are unlikely to pose a plant pest risk. We have, 
therefore, reached a preliminary decision to approve the request to 
extend the determination of nonregulated status of W8 potato to X17 and 
Y9 potatoes, whereby X17 and Y9 potatoes would no longer be subject to 
our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically 
engineered organisms.
    Paragraph (e) of Sec.  340.6 provides that APHIS will publish a 
notice in the Federal Register announcing all preliminary decisions to 
extend determinations of nonregulated status for 30 days before the 
decisions become final and effective. In accordance with Sec.  340.6(e) 
of the regulations, we are publishing this notice to inform the public 
of our preliminary decision to extend the determination of nonregulated 
status of the antecedent potato to X17 and Y9 potatoes.
    APHIS will accept written comments on its preliminary determination 
and the preliminary FONSI regarding a determination of nonregulated 
status of X17 and Y9 potatoes for a period of 30 days from the date 
this notice is published in the Federal Register. The preliminary 
FONSI, as well as the extension request, supporting documents, and our 
preliminary determination for X17 and Y9 potatoes, are available for 
public review as indicated under ADDRESSES and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT above. Copies of these documents may also be obtained by 
contacting the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    After the comment period closes, APHIS will review all written 
comments received during the comment period and any other relevant 
information. All comments will be available for public review. After 
reviewing and evaluating the comments, if APHIS determines that no new 
information has been received that would warrant APHIS altering its 
preliminary regulatory determination or FONSI, our preliminary 
regulatory determination will become final and effective upon 
notification of the public through an announcement on our Web site at 
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/petitions_table_pending.shtml.
    APHIS will also furnish a response to the petitioner regarding our 
final regulatory determination. No further Federal Register notice will 
be published announcing the final regulatory determination regarding 
X17 and Y9 potatoes.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701-7772 and 7781-7786; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 
CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of September 2016.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER APHIS–2016–0057, Regulatory Analysis there is reason to believe are plant pests.
contains documents other than rules or and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station Such genetically engineered organisms
proposed rules that are applicable to the 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, and products are considered ‘‘regulated
public. Notices of hearings and investigations, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. articles.’’
committee meetings, agency decisions and The J.R. Simplot Company extension The regulations in § 340.6(a) provide
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of request, our preliminary determination, that any person may submit a petition
petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are
preliminary plant pest risk similarity to the Animal and Plant Health
examples of documents appearing in this assessment, preliminary finding of no Inspection Service (APHIS) seeking a
section. significant impact, and any comments determination that an article should not
we receive on this docket may be be regulated under 7 CFR part 340.
viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/ Further, the regulations in § 340.6(e)(2)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2016-0057 or provide that a person may request that
in our reading room, which is located in APHIS extend a determination of
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Room 1141 of the USDA South nonregulated status to other organisms.
Service Building, 14th Street and Independence Such a request must include
[Docket No. APHIS–2016–0057]
Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal information to establish the similarity of
reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 the antecedent organism and the
J.R. Simplot Company; Availability of p.m., Monday through Friday, except regulated article in question.
Preliminary Finding of No Significant holidays. To be sure someone is there to In a notice 1 published in the Federal
Impact, Preliminary Plant Pest Risk help you, please call (202) 799–7039 Register on September 2, 2015 (80 FR
Similarity Assessment, and before coming. 53101–53102, Docket No. APHIS–2014–
Preliminary Determination for an Supporting documents and any 0076), APHIS announced our
Extension of a Determination of comments we received regarding our determination of nonregulated status of
Nonregulated Status for X17 and Y9 determination of nonregulated status of the J.R. Simplot Company’s (Simplot)
Potato Varieties the antecedent organism (potato event InnateTM Potato designated as Russet
W8) can be found at http:// Burbank event W8, which has been
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health www.regulations.gov/ genetically engineered for late blight
Inspection Service, USDA. #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0076. resistance, low acrylamide potential,
ACTION: Notice. Supporting documents may also be reduced black spot bruising, and
found on the APHIS Web site for X17 lowered reducing sugars. APHIS has
SUMMARY: We are advising the public and Y9 (the organisms under
that the Animal and Plant Health received a request from Simplot for an
evaluation) under APHIS Petition extension of that determination of
Inspection Service has reached a Number 16–064–01p, and the
preliminary decision to extend our nonregulated status to its Ranger Russet
antecedent organism (potato event W8) variety (X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9)
determination of nonregulated status of under APHIS Petition Number 14–093–
J.R. Simplot Company’s (Simplot) potatoes (APHIS Petition Number 16–
01p. 064–01p). In the extension request,
InnateTM Potato designated as Russet
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Simplot named the previously
Burbank event W8 (the antecedent
potato event) to Simplot’s Ranger Russet John Turner, Director, Biotechnology deregulated W8 potato event as the
variety (X17) and Atlantic variety (Y9) Risk Analysis Programs, Biotechnology antecedent organism. Like the
potatoes. Simplot’s X17 and Y9 potatoes Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River antecedent, X17 and Y9 are genetically
have been genetically engineered for Road, Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737– engineered for late blight resistance, low
late blight resistance, low acrylamide 1236; (301) 851–3954, email: acrylamide potential, reduced black
potential, lowered reducing sugars, and john.t.turner@aphis.usda.gov. To obtain spot bruising, and lowered reducing
reduced black spot using the same copies of the supporting documents, sugars. In its request, Simplot stated that
genetic constructs used to transform the contact Ms. Cindy Eck at (301) 851– X17 and Y9 potatoes were produced by
antecedent potato event. We are making 3885, email: cynthia.a.eck@ using the same genetic construct that
available for public comment our aphis.usda.gov. was used to transform the antecedent
preliminary determination, preliminary SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the potato and, based on the similarity, is
plant pest risk similarity assessment, authority of the plant pest provisions of unlikely to pose a plant pest risk.
and preliminary finding of no the Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. Therefore, the request stated that X17
significant impact for the proposed 7701 et seq.), the regulations in 7 CFR and Y9 potatoes should not be regulated
determination of nonregulated status. part 340, ‘‘Introduction of Organisms articles under APHIS’ regulations in 7
DATES: We will consider all comments and Products Altered or Produced CFR part 340.
that we receive on or before October 24, Through Genetic Engineering Which As part of our decisionmaking process
Are Plant Pests or Which There Is regarding a genetically engineered
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2016.
Reason to Believe Are Plant Pests,’’ organism’s regulatory status, APHIS
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
regulate, among other things, the evaluates the plant pest risk of the
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to introduction (importation, interstate regulated article. In section 403 of the
http://www.regulations.gov/ movement, or release into the 1 To view the notice, our determination,
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2016-0057. environment) of organisms and products supporting documents, and the comments we have
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: altered or produced through genetic received, go to http://www.regulations.gov/
Send your comment to Docket No. engineering that are plant pests or that #!docketDetail;D=APHIS=2014=0076.

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PPA, ‘‘plant pest’’ is defined as any finding of no significant impact (FONSI) under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
living stage of any of the following that on X17 and Y9 potatoes using the EA CONTACT.
can directly or indirectly injure, cause prepared for W8 potato. APHIS After the comment period closes,
damage to, or cause disease in any plant considered the following alternatives: APHIS will review all written comments
product: A protozoan, a nonhuman (1) Take no action, i.e., APHIS would received during the comment period
animal, a parasitic plant, a bacterium, a not change the regulatory status of X17 and any other relevant information. All
fungus, a virus or viroid, an infectious or Y9 potatoes and it would continue to comments will be available for public
agent or other pathogen, or any article be a regulated article, or (2) make a review. After reviewing and evaluating
similar to or allied with any of the determination of nonregulated status of the comments, if APHIS determines that
foregoing. X17 and Y9 potatoes. APHIS’ preferred no new information has been received
As described in the extension request, alternative is to make a determination of that would warrant APHIS altering its
X17 and Y9 potatoes have been nonregulated status of X17 and Y9 preliminary regulatory determination or
genetically engineered through the potatoes. FONSI, our preliminary regulatory
insertion of genetic elements from plant APHIS has carefully examined the determination will become final and
pest organisms listed in 7 CFR 340.2. existing NEPA documentation effective upon notification of the public
APHIS previously completed a plant completed for W8 potato and has through an announcement on our Web
pest risk assessment (PPRA) associated concluded that Simplot’s request to site at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/
with the insertion of these same genetic extend a determination of nonregulated biotechnology/petitions_table_
elements into potatoes during the status to X17 and Y9 potatoes pending.shtml.
review of the antecedent variety, encompasses the same scope of APHIS will also furnish a response to
InnateTM Russet Burbank event W8 environmental analysis as the the petitioner regarding our final
potato, and concluded that the resulting antecedent potato. regulatory determination. No further
organisms did not pose a plant pest risk. Based on APHIS’ analysis of Federal Register notice will be
X17 and Y9 potatoes express the same information submitted by Simplot, published announcing the final
resistance for late blight resistance, low references provided in the extension regulatory determination regarding X17
acrylamide potential, reduced black request, peer-reviewed publications, and Y9 potatoes.
spot bruising, and lowered reducing information analyzed in the EA, and the
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781–
sugars as the antecedent potato. APHIS similarity of X17 and Y9 potatoes to the 7786; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and
prepared a plant pest risk similarity antecedent organisms, APHIS has 371.3.
assessment (PPRSA) to compare X17 determined that X17 and Y9 potatoes
Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of
and Y9 potatoes to the antecedent. As are unlikely to pose a plant pest risk. September 2016.
described in the PPRSA, X17 and Y9 We have, therefore, reached a
Kevin Shea,
potatoes were obtained by introducing preliminary decision to approve the
the same construct used to produce request to extend the determination of Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
InnateTM Russet Burbank event W8 into nonregulated status of W8 potato to X17
and Y9 potatoes, whereby X17 and Y9 [FR Doc. 2016–22928 Filed 9–22–16; 8:45 am]
the Ranger Russet variety (X17) and
Atlantic variety (Y9). Based on our potatoes would no longer be subject to BILLING CODE 3410–34–P

PPRA for the antecedent and the our regulations governing the
similarity between X17 and Y9 potatoes introduction of certain genetically
and the antecedent based on the PPRSA, engineered organisms. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
APHIS has concluded that X17 and Y9 Paragraph (e) of § 340.6 provides that Forest Service
potatoes are unlikely to pose a plant APHIS will publish a notice in the
pest risk. Federal Register announcing all Dalton Mountain Forest Restoration
The environmental assessment (EA) preliminary decisions to extend and Fuels Reduction EIS—Helena-
for the antecedent organism was determinations of nonregulated status Lewis and Clark National Forest, Lewis
prepared using data submitted by for 30 days before the decisions become and Clark County, Montana
Simplot, a review of other scientific final and effective. In accordance with
data, and field tests conducted under § 340.6(e) of the regulations, we are AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
APHIS oversight. The EA was prepared publishing this notice to inform the ACTION: Withdrawal of Notice of Intent
to provide the APHIS decisionmaker public of our preliminary decision to to prepare an Environmental Impact
with a review and analysis of any extend the determination of Statement.
potential environmental impacts nonregulated status of the antecedent
associated with the proposed potato to X17 and Y9 potatoes. SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service is
determination of nonregulated status of APHIS will accept written comments withdrawing the Notice of Intent to
the antecedent potato. The EA was on its preliminary determination and prepare an Environmental Impact
prepared in accordance with (1) the the preliminary FONSI regarding a Statement for the Dalton Mountain
National Environmental Policy Act of determination of nonregulated status of Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction
1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. X17 and Y9 potatoes for a period of 30 project on the Lincoln Ranger District of
4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the days from the date this notice is the Helena-Lewis and Clark National
Council on Environmental Quality for published in the Federal Register. The Forest. A Notice of Intent to prepare an
implementing the procedural provisions preliminary FONSI, as well as the Environmental Impact Statement was
extension request, supporting published in the Federal Register on
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of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3)
USDA regulations implementing NEPA documents, and our preliminary November 16, 2011 (pages 70955–
(7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS’ NEPA determination for X17 and Y9 potatoes, 70956)
Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part are available for public review as FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
372). indicated under ADDRESSES and FOR Jennifer Woods, Helena-Lewis and Clark
Based on the similarity of X17 and Y9 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT above. National Forest, 1220 38th Street North,
potatoes to the antecedent potato, Copies of these documents may also be Great Falls, Montana 59405, (406) 791–
APHIS has prepared a preliminary obtained by contacting the person listed 7765.

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Category		Regulatory Information
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		We will consider all comments that we receive on or before October 24, 2016.
Contact		Dr. John Turner, Director, Biotechnology Risk Analysis Programs, Biotechnology Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 851-3954, email: [email protected] To obtain copies of the supporting documents, contact Ms. Cindy Eck at (301) 851-3885, email: [email protected]
FR Citation		81 FR 65622

81 FR 65622 - J.R. Simplot Company; Availability of Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact, Preliminary Plant Pest Risk Similarity Assessment, and Preliminary Determination for an Extension of a Determination of Nonregulated Status for X17 and Y9 Potato Varieties

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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