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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2017 11:50 AM, "Lindsey Riibe" <<a href="mailto:riibe.lindsey@gmail.com">riibe.lindsey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="m_-5406740591677563474m_-3330982650291190738AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_b0d12fe0-83b9-419f-a8c3-a010942bc4e6"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="m_-5406740591677563474m_-3330982650291190738AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_5c1cde39-ee1d-48c3-8918-92d455c7e55f"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="m_-5406740591677563474m_-3330982650291190738AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_5a3b6980-f269-4489-91c3-370b1052d255"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="m_-5406740591677563474m_-3330982650291190738AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_e3639124-0fd0-441c-838c-8578d00bc6e3"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="m_-5406740591677563474m_-3330982650291190738AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_8438a79b-4c2e-498e-aa8b-f7cc77fb938e"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">According to the attached 12/8/2016 <i>Capital Press Ag</i> news article, the decision to deregulate the genetically engineered glyphosate-resistant creeping bentgrass will be made by the USDA Secretary of Agriculture after the close of the final public comment period, which was Monday.</font></font></div>
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<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica;color:black"><span>From: Lindsey Riibe <<a href="mailto:riibe.lindsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">riibe.lindsey@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Alien Plant Working Group <<a href="mailto:apwg@lists.plantconservation.org" target="_blank">apwg@lists.plantconservation.<wbr>org</a>><br>
Sent: Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 9:16 am<br>
Subject: [APWG] Article/News: GMO Creeping Bentgrass that Escaped Defies Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - The Oregonian, Jan. 8th, 2017<br>
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