The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and draft plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) for Bayer’s herbicide-tolerant MON 87429 maize. Maize varieties containing event MON 87429 possess tolerance to the herbicides dicamba, glufosinate, 2,4-D and the aryloxyphenoxypropionate group of herbicides (‘FOPs’) through the expression of the demethylase gene, the phosphinothricin-N-acetyltransferase (pat) gene, and the ft_t gene, a modified version of the R-2,4-dichlorophenoxypropionate dioxygenase (Rdpa) gene. In addition, MON 87429 provides tissue-specific glyphosate tolerance to facilitate the production of hybrid maize seeds through the tissue-specific expression of the CP4 EPSPS protein.