The Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued Product Management Bulletin PM-23-035 on June 29, 2023, announcing changes to several policies under the APHCIT Final Rule. In reviewing the changes made in the APHCIT Final Rule, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) found some incorrect references and conflicting provisions that were not updated to accurately incorporate the changes, and a grammatical error was included in the amendatory instructions. A Correcting Amendment with these changes was published in the Federal Register on August 30, 2023, at regulations.gov.

Corrections in the Common Crop Insurance Policy (CCIP) Basic Provisions include:

• Alphabetizing the definition of “organic standards”;
• Allowing the Crop Provisions to provide exceptions to the production reporting date;
• Removing references to subpart G; and
• Ensuring the availability of enterprise units and whole farm units is shown only in the actuarial documents.

The Correcting Amendment removed references to subpart G and corrected references from “previous” year production to “current” year for consistency with the CCIP Basic Provisions, in the following Crop Provisions:

• Arizona-California Citrus Crop Provisions;
• California Avocado Crop Provisions;
• Macadamia Nut Crop Provisions; and
• Texas Citrus Fruit Crop Provisions.

Conforming changes were also made in the pilot Fresh Market Caneberry Crop Provisions.