INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM: R&D-99-045

TO:          All Reinsured Companies
             All Risk Management Agency Field Offices

FROM:        Tim B. Witt	/s/ Tim B. Witt
             Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT:    Pilot Fresh Market Bean Program Underwriting Standards, Winter Squash Crop
Provisions and Underwriting Standards, and the Cultivated Clam Pilot Crop
Insurance Provisions for the 2000 Crop Year

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has placed on the RMA WebSite at:

ftp://ftp.rma.usda.gov/pub/Policies/2000/pilot/wpd and
ftp://ftp.rma.usda.gov/pub/Policies/2000/pilot/pdf, the following documents:

• Pilot Fresh Market Bean Program Underwriting Standards

• Winter Squash Crop Provisions and Underwriting Standards for adding pumpkins as an insurable type with areas available and sales closing dates indicated.

Program	Areas Available	Sales Closing Dates
Winter Squash	Alabama - Colbert and Jackson Counties New York - Orange and Suffolk Counties Pennsylvania - Bucks and Lancaster Counties	March 15

(Winter squash actuarial material will be placed on the server with the 11/30 actuarial filing.)

• Cultivated Clam Pilot Crop Insurance Provisions with areas available and sales closing dates indicated.

Program	Areas Available	Sales Closing Dates
Cultivated Clams	Florida - Brevard, Dixie, Indian River, and Levy Counties Massachusetts - Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, and Plymouth Counties South Carolina - Beauford and Charleston Counties Virginia - Accomack and Northampton	November 30

If you have any questions about these pilot programs, please contact Michael O'Connell, of the Research and Evaluation Division at (816) 926-6310 or by fax at (816) 926-7343.

DISPOSAL DATE:

This Informational Memorandum is for the purpose of transmitting information and the expiration date is December 31, 1999.