USA
June 16, 2025
[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 25123-25134]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10797]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
7 CFR Parts 330, 340, and 372
[Docket No. APHIS-2018-0034]
RIN 0579-AE47
Movement of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Final rule; technical amendments.
SUMMARY: On December 2, 2024, a Federal court vacated the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) final rule issued on May 18,
2020 (the May 2020 final rule) that revised APHIS' regulations
governing the movement of certain genetically modified organisms and
was issued under the authority of the Plant Protection Act. APHIS is
therefore amending the CFR to conform the CFR to the Federal Court's
vacatur of that rule. The Court's vacatur was effective December 2,
2024, and had the legal effect of vacating the May 2020 final rule in
its entirety and restoring the legal effect of the pre-May 2020
regulations. These technical conforming amendments revise the CFR to
reflect the court's vacatur of the May 2020 final rule.
DATES: This rule is effective June 16, 2025. The Federal Court's
vacatur of the rule amendments published on May 18, 2020, at 85 FR
29790, was applicable as of December 2, 2024.
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