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Vol. 60, No. 56

Thursday, March 23, 1995

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

[Docket No. 95–015–1]

Determination of Nonregulated Status

for Additional Calgene, Inc.,

Genetically Engineered FLAVR

SAVRTM Tomato Lines

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service is announcing that it

has added 20 additional genetically

engineered tomato lines to those subject

to its October 19, 1992, interpretive

ruling that the subject FLAVR SAVRTM

lines need no longer be regulated. The

effect of this action is that 20 additional

delayed softening tomato lines, which

have been modified by the

incorporation of genetic material

described by Calgene, Inc., in its initial

request for an interpretive ruling, will

no longer be subject to regulation under

7 CFR part 340.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Keith Reding, Biotechnologist, Animal

and Plant Health Inspection Service,

Biotechnology, Biologics, and

Environmental Protection,

Biotechnology Permits, 4700 River Road

Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737–1228;

(301) 734–7612.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

October 19, 1992, the Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

published in the Federal Register (57

FR 47608–47616, Docket No. 92–087–2)

a notice announcing the issuance of an

interpretive ruling that the Calgene, Inc.,

FLAVR SAVRTM tomato 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 Calgene seeking a determination

from APHIS that its FLAVR SAVRTM

tomato no longer be deemed a regulated

article, based on an absence of plant

pest risk. The effect of the action was

that previously field tested lines of the

FLAVR SAVRTM tomato and their

progeny would no longer be regulated

under these regulations.

FLAVR SAVRTM tomatoes were

defined by Calgene in its initial petition

to include any tomatoes transformed

with one of seven identified plasmid

vectors that all carry an antisense copy

of the tomato polygalacturonase gene

and a bacterial neomycin

phosphotransferase gene with

associated regulatory sequences.

Calgene’s initial request to APHIS in

1992 was for a determination pertaining

to all FLAVR SAVRTM transformants

produced in tomatoes using any one of

the seven plasmid vectors. Calgene

indicated in its petition that data

provided to the Agency were

representative of the data gathered for

all lines tested up to that time. The

initial determination announced by

APHIS on October 19, 1992, only

applied to those lines that had already

been field tested. However, APHIS

indicated that new lines were likely to

exhibit properties similar to those of

lines already field tested under permit.

The determination also allowed for

cross-breeding of the identified FLAVR

SAVRTM tomato lines with any other

lines or cultivars of tomato without a

permit. One additional FLAVR SAVRTM

tomato line was added to the original

determination on October 3, 1994 (59

FR 50220, Docket No. 94–096–1), and

nine additional FLAVR SAVRTM tomato

lines were added to the original

determination on November 18, 1994

(59 FR 59746, Docket No. 94–125–1).

Seventeen of the 20 additional FLAVR

SAVRTM—tomato lines that are the

subject of this notice were constructed

using the plasmid vector pCGN4109,

and the remaining three lines were

constructed using the plasmid vector

pCGN1436. These two vectors were

among the seven included in Calgene’s

initial petition to APHIS. In our

determination of October 19, 1992, the

lines using these vectors were not

deregulated because they had not been

field tested. These lines have since been

field tested in accordance with APHIS

regulations at 7 CFR part 340, and data

provided to APHIS indicate that the

new transformants, produced in a

manner identical to the earlier

transformant lines, behave similarly to

those earlier FLAVR SAVRTM tomato

lines to which the determination

initially applied. Reports from field

trials and other data indicate that the

new tomato 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

October 19, 1992, applies as well to the

new transformed lines.

Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of

March 1995.

Terry L. Medley,

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 95–7132 Filed 3–22–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P

Forest Service

Southwest Oregon Provincial

Interagency Executive Committee

(PIEC), Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Southwest Oregon PIEC

Advisory Committee will meet on April

20, 1995 at the Medford Bureau of Land

Management Office, 3040 Biddle Road,

Medford, Oregon. The meeting will

begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue until

4:00 p.m. Agenda items to be covered

include: (1) Context of the Advisory

Committee; including background on

the President’s Forest Plan; (2)

Introduction of members and

orientation; (3) Meeting operating

guidelines; (4) Mission and purpose of

the Province Advisory Committee and

its relationship to the PIEC; (5) Brief

presentation by Advisory Committee

members on who they represent; and (6)

Open public forum. All Southwest

Oregon Province Advisory Committee

meetings are open to the public.

Interested citizens are encouraged to

attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions regarding this meeting

to Chuck Anderson, Province Advisory

Committee staff, USDA, Rogue River

National Forest, P.O. Box 520, Medford,

Oregon 97501, 503–858–2322.