INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-96-032
          
TO:      All Reinsured Companies
         All Risk Management Field Offices
         FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery & Field Operations
          
FROM:    Tim B. Witt
         Director
         Research and Development Division
          
SUBJECT: CAT Policy Data for Single Delivery States
          
          
The Secretary of Agriculture has announced that delivery of crop insurance 
by local offices will no longer be available in 14 States beginning with the 
1997 crop year.  To facilitate the initial transfer of Farm Service Agency 
(FSA) insureds, each affected reinsured company will be provided a file, by 
State, of their policyholders who have a catastrophic risk protection 
coverage (CAT) policy with an FSA local office and have an additional 
coverage policy with the same company.  Any available experience data for 
these FSA policyholders will also be provided to the reinsured companies.
          
These files are available on the Reporting Organization (RO) server. This 
information is for reinsured companies to use in contacting insureds for 
consideration to voluntarily transfer their FSA CAT policy(ies) as soon as 
possible to the agent servicing their additional coverage policies. 
          
For technical questions regarding the RO server, contact Reid Earls at 
(816) 926-6368.