The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is to reopen the public comment period, for 30-days, on a Notice of Intent to prepare an environmental impact statement on the deregulation of Bayer's MON 87429 maize. MON 84729 confers tolerance to the herbicides dicamba, glufosinate, quizalofop, 2,4-D as well as tissue-specific tolerance to glyphosate. MON 84729 has already gained import approval for food/feed uses in Australia and Canada.