BULLETIN NO: MGR-97-032

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

FROM:     Kenneth D. Ackerman
          Administrator

SUBJECT:  Common Crop Insurance Regulations; Basic Provisions; 
	  and Various Crop Insurance Provisions; Proposed Rule


This is to inform you that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) 
published a proposed rule for the Common Crop Insurance Regulations; Basic 
Provisions; and Various Crop Insurance Provisions in the Federal Register 
on August 12, 1997.  FCIC proposes to amend the Common Crop Insurance
Regulations by deleting the late and prevented planting provisions currently
contained in many Crop Provisions, incorporating revised late and prevented 
planting provisions into the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions,
and adding definitions and provisions that are common to most crops.

Written comments and opinions on this proposed rule will be accepted until
close of business September 11, 1997.  Written comments should be submitted 
to the following address:

               USDA/Risk Management Agency
               Product Development Branch
               9435 Holmes Road
               Kansas City, MO 64131

A copy of the regulation can be accessed on the Internet at the following 
address: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html.  If you cannot
access Internet and need a copy of the regulation, please call Diana Moslak,
Director, Regulatory Affairs, at (202) 720-2832.