[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 16767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08017]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

7 CFR Part 457

[Docket No. FCIC-17-0003]
RIN 0563-AC59


Common Crop Insurance Regulations; Cultivated Clam Crop Insurance 
Provisions

AGENCY: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule with request for comments; correcting amendment.

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SUMMARY: This document contains necessary amendments to apply a 
technical correction to the final rule with request for comments for 
the Cultivated Clam Crop Insurance Provisions which published in the 
Federal Register on December 27, 2017.

DATES: Effective Date: April 17, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Lundine, Director, Product 
Management, Actuarial and Product Design Division, Risk Management 
Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, Beacon Facility, Stop 
0812, Room 421, P.O. Box 419205, Kansas City, MO 64141-6205, telephone 
(816) 926-3854.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    This technical correction is being published to remove section 15 
of the ``cultivated clam crop insurance provisions,'' published 
December 27, 2017 (Docket No. FCIC-17-0003). Section 15 excludes the 
use of written agreements by not allowing the written agreement 
provisions in the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions to 
apply. This provision was necessary when the program was a pilot 
program to ensure there were no changes made to the policy so that the 
existing terms would be evaluated to make sure they were actuarially 
sound and there were no program integrity issues. Once the pilot 
program is completed, evaluated, and approved for permanence, the 
restriction on written agreements is no longer necessary. As a result 
of the removal of section 15, FCIC is allowing the use of written 
agreements under the cultivated clam crop provisions and redesignating 
subtitle numbering from section 16 to section 15, section 17 to section 
16, and section 18 to section 17.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 457

    Crop insurance, Cultivated clam, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Accordingly, 7 CFR part 457 is corrected by making the following 
amendments:

PART 457--COMMON CROP INSURANCE REGULATIONS

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1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 457 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority:  7 U.S.C. 1506(l) and 1506(o).


Sec.  457.176  [Amended]

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2. Amend Sec.  457.176, in the cultivated clam crop insurance 
provisions, by removing section 15 and redesignating sections 16 
through 18 as sections 15 through section 17.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2018.
Heather Manzano,
Acting Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2018-08017 Filed 4-16-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3410-08-P