United States            Farm             Office of          
Department of            Service          Risk               Washington, D.C.
Agriculture              Agency           Management              20250



BULLETIN NO.: MGR-96-027

TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         All Risk Management Field Offices
         FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery and Field Operations

FROM:    Kenneth D. Ackerman
         Deputy Administrator 

SUBJECT: Requests to Increase Maximum Eligible Prevented Planting Acreage 
         for the 1996 Crop Year


BACKGROUND:

Crop policies that provide prevented planting coverage require that insurance 
providers must agree in writing, on or before the sales closing date, to 
increase the maximum acreage eligible for prevented planting coverage.

Due to the significant increase in the volume of requests to increase maximum 
eligible prevented planting acreage, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 
(FCIC) has been advised that it was unreasonable to expect that insurance 
providers were able to take action on all such requests by the 1996 crop year 
sales closing date.

ACTION:

Effective immediately, FCIC is liberalizing the prevented planting policy 
language to allow insurance providers until May 31, 1996, to take action on 
requests made by insureds by the 1996 sales closing date requests to increase 
prevented planting acreage.