Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is entitled “Protection of Environment,” encompassing federal provisions and guidelines on programs, grants, and standards aimed at organizing frameworks to save the environment. Specifically, part 172 of the Title’s Subsection C addresses the guidelines of issuing experimental use permits (“Title 40”). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, an experimental use permit is a publicly issued permission to use a new pesticide for experiments or research in the amount allowed by the government. These guidelines include various definitions that need to be accounted for during the examination.
Thus, one of the concepts mentioned in part 172 is the provisions selection and utilization of containment and inactivation controls. Containment, in this case, stands for any operation and tool that is designed to restrain the release of specific microorganisms into the environment (“Title 40”). According to the guidelines, every experimental use permit should account for the potential risks and ways of release in order to create a contingency plan of emergency termination of the research or experiment.
Moreover, under part 172.48, Federal Regulations outline the provision for submitting an official notification of the experiment prior to its start, including such information as the description and summary of the pesticide’s structure and habitat and competitors. The latter implies the description of the pesticide’s ability to regenerate, survive, transmit, and activate or prepress using the control region of the genes (“Title 40”). In such a way, the data collected for the notification will help establish whether the experimental use of a gene can have adverse effects. In that case, individuals responsible for the experiment shall inform the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) immediately. In case the guidelines are ignored, EPA is entitled to present legal punishment for the violators, including both immediate termination of the experiment and criminal charges against the violators.
Works Cited
Environmental Protection Agency. “Issuance of an Experimental Use Permit.” Federal Register, Web.
“Title 40.” eCFR, 2022, Web.