National Plant Board

2.1) sanc: systems approach to nursery certification; to evaluate audit- based certification studies and determine the feasibility of developing and harmonizing national standards for a voluntary audit-based nursery certification program. 2.2) sanc-risk assessment: to develop a (horticultural) nursery pest risk assessment software program to be used toy nurseries in the sanc program certification process to develop a sanc facility manual.

3) brs: to inspect field trials of low-risk genetically engineered (ge) organisms by working with several mutually agreed upon states.