Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-11-40

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

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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.

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E. Any person or their employees who is issued a permit shall
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.

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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.