2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-11-40. Permit - Exemption - Information required - Fee.

A. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the authority to issue, renew, deny, suspend, and revoke any permit issued according to the provisions of the Oklahoma Agriculture Biotechnology Act.

B. No person shall maintain a regulated article without a permit issued by the Board.

C. Any person who has filed Assurances of Compliance with federally established guidelines with his or her Institutional Biosafety Committee and/or applied for regulatory approval from the appropriate federal agency shall be exempt from the provisions of the Oklahoma Agriculture Biotechnology Act.

D. Any person not in compliance with a federal agency shall provide the Board with the following information prior to issuance of a permit pursuant to the Oklahoma Agriculture Biotechnology Act:

1. Name, title, address, telephone number, signature of the responsible person, and type of permit requested such as for importation, interstate movement, or release into the environment;

2. All scientific, common, and trade names, and all designations necessary to identify the: Donor organism; recipient organism; vector or vector agents; constituent of each regulated article which is a product; and regulated article;

3. Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the persons who developed and/or supplied the regulated article;

4. A description of the means of movement, such as mail, common carrier, baggage, or if hand-carried, by whom;

5. A description of the anticipated or actual expression of the altered genetic material in the regulated article and how that expression differs from the expression in the nonmodified parental organism, including but not limited to morphological or structural characteristics, physiological activities and processes, number of copies of inserted genetic material, and the physical state of this material inside the recipient organism, integrated or extrachromosomal, products and secretions, growth characteristics;

6. A detailed description of the molecular biology of the system, such as donor-recipient-vector, which is or will be used to produce the regulated article;

7. Country and locality where the donor organism, recipient organism, vector or vector agent, and regulated article were collected, developed, and produced;

8. A detailed description of the purpose for the introduction of the regulated article including a detailed description of the proposed experimental and/or production design;

9. The quantity of the regulated article to be introduced and proposed schedule and number of introductions;

10. A detailed description of the processes, procedures, and safeguards which have been used or will be used in the country of origin and in the United States to prevent contamination, release, and dissemination in the production of the: Donor organism; recipient organism; vector or vector agent; constituent of each regulated article which is a product; and regulated article;

11. A detailed description of the intended destination including final and all intermediate destinations, uses, and/or distribution of the regulated article, such as greenhouses, laboratory, or growth chamber location; field trial location; pilot project location; production, propagation, and manufacture location; proposed sale and distribution location;

12. A detailed description of the proposed procedures, processes, and safeguards which will be used to prevent escape and dissemination of the regulated article at each of the intended destinations;

13. A detailed description of any biological material, for example culture medium, or host material accompanying the regulated article during movement; and

14. A detailed description of the proposed method of final disposition of the regulated article.

E. Any person or their employees who is issued a permit shall comply with regulations established by the Board as are necessary to prevent the uncontrolled dissemination and establishment of a regulated article in the environment.

F. In accordance with the administration of the Oklahoma Agriculture Biotechnology Act, the Board is given the authority to charge the following fee schedule: A fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) shall be charged each person for a permit to develop, maintain, manipulate and/or release a regulated article. The fees shall be deposited in the State Department of Agriculture Revolving Fund.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 226, § 6, emerg. eff. May 17, 1990. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 121, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001. Renumbered from § 2016 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 261, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001.