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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 

7 CFR Part 460 

[Docket ID FCIC–22–0001] 

RIN 0563–AC77 

Pandemic Cover Crop Program 

AGENCY: Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: This rule announces the 

Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP) 

to provide support for agricultural 

producers impacted by the COVID–19 

pandemic for the 2022 crop year. USDA 

is dedicating funding to reach a broader 

set of producers than in previous 

COVID–19 assistance programs, with a 

specific focus on strengthening outreach 

to underserved producers and 

communities and small and medium 

agricultural operations. As a part of that 

initiative, this rule establishes PCCP for 

2022. 

DATES: Effective April 12, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Zanoni; telephone: (816) 926– 

6142; email: david.zanoni@usda.gov. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication 

should contact the USDA Target Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2021 (CAA; Pub. L. 116–260) provided 

funding to prevent, prepare for, and 

respond to the COVID–19 pandemic by 

providing support for agricultural 

producers who were impacted. 

Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the 

USDA Pandemic Assistance for 

Producers initiative on March 24, 2021. 

USDA is dedicating $6.5 billion in 

funding to reach a broader set of 

producers than in previous COVID–19 

assistance programs, with a specific 

focus on strengthening outreach to 

underserved producers and 

communities and small and medium 

agricultural operations. As a part of that 

initiative, this rule establishes PCCP for 

2022. 

PCCP 

The Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation (FCIC) serves America’s 

agricultural producers through effective, 

market-based risk management tools to 

strengthen the economic stability of 

agricultural producers and rural 

communities. FCIC is committed to 

increasing the availability and 

effectiveness of Federal crop insurance 

as a risk management tool. Approved 

Insurance Providers (AIP) sell and 

service Federal crop insurance policies 

in every state through a public-private 

partnership. FCIC reinsures the AIPs 

who share the risks associated with 

catastrophic losses due to major weather 

events. FCIC’s vision is to secure the 

future of agriculture by providing world 

class risk management tools to rural 

America. 

For the 2021 crop year, FCIC 

implemented PCCP through a Notice of 

Funding Availability to help 

agricultural producers impacted by the 

effects of the COVID–19 outbreak. The 

economic challenges due to the 

pandemic made maintaining cover 

cropping systems financially 

challenging for many producers. For the 

2021 crop year, PCCP premium support 

was provided to eligible producers for 

eligible insured acres on a spring crop 

insurance policy on which the producer 

planted a qualifying cover crop during 

the 2021 crop year. 

FCIC amends 7 CFR part 460 to add 

a new subpart B to establish PCCP 

regulations for the 2022 crop year. For 

the 2022 crop year, PCCP premium 

support will be available to eligible 

producers for eligible insured acres on 

a crop insurance policy for a first 

insured crop on which the producer 

planted a qualifying cover crop after 

June 15, 2021, of the 2021 crop year, or 

during the 2022 crop year. In addition, 

for the 2022 crop year, additional PCCP 

premium support will be available to 

eligible producers for eligible Whole 

Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) acres 

on which the producer planted a 

qualifying cover crop after June 15, 

2021, of the 2021 crop year, or during 

the 2022 crop year. PCCP premium 

support will be available for both 

eligible insured acres and eligible WFRP 

acres associated with the same planted 

acreage of qualifying cover crops. 

Supplemental Coverage Option, 

Enhanced Coverage Option, PostApplication Coverage Endorsement, and 

Hurricane Insurance Protection—Wind 

Index policies or endorsements will not 

be eligible for PCCP. Stacked Income 

Protection Plan (STAX) and Margin 

Protection (MP) policies will only be 

eligible for PCCP when insured as a 

standalone policy. STAX and MP 

endorsements to underlying policies 

will not be eligible for PCCP. 

For the 2022 crop year, in States 

administering a cover crop program 

providing premium subsidy under an 

active Memorandum of Understanding 

(MOU) with RMA, as authorized by 

Section 508(c)(8) of the Federal Crop 

Insurance Act, insured acres qualifying 

for a State premium subsidy amount are 

eligible for a matching amount under 

PCCP, calculated on an FSA Common 

Land Unit (CLU) basis. The matching 

amount under PCCP per insured acre 

will be equal to the State contribution 

per insured acre on a CLU basis and is 

in addition to the base amount of PCCP. 

The matching amount under PCCP per 

insured acre will be limited by the 

amount of premium owed by the 

insured on a CLU basis. If limited, the 

State contribution amount and matching 

PCCP amount will be reduced 

proportionately on a CLU basis. 

Some insureds will not owe enough 

premium to receive the full State 

premium subsidy support amount. 

Accordingly, any money contributed by 

a State that is not paid out via PCCP will 

be returned to the state within 90 days 

of the end of PCCP. 

Notice and Comment and Effective Date 

The Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA, 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2)) provides that 

the notice and comment and 30-day 

delay in the effective date provisions do 

not apply when the rule involves 

specified actions, including matters 

relating to benefits or contracts. This 

rule governs premium support for 

eligible producers for eligible insured 

acres on a crop insurance policy and 

therefore falls under the benefits or 

contracts exemption of the APA. 

This rule is exempt from the 

regulatory analysis requirements of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 


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601–612), as amended by the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA). The 

requirements for the regulatory 

flexibility analysis in 5 U.S.C. 603 and 

604 are specifically tied to the 

requirement for a proposed rule under 

5 U.S.C. 553 or any other law; in 

addition, the definition of rule in 5 

U.S.C. 601 is tied to the publication of 

a proposed rule. 

The Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

designated this rule as major under the 

Subtitle E of the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 

1996, also known as the Congressional 

Review Act (CRA, 5 U.S.C. 804(2)). 

Therefore, the date for making the 

regulatory changes in this rule effective 

in the Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) 

will be delayed for 60 days from the 

date of publication in the Federal 

Register to allow for Congressional 

review. 

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

Executive Order 12866, ‘‘Regulatory 

Planning and Review,’’ and Executive 

Order 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation 

and Regulatory Review,’’ direct agencies 

to assess all costs and benefits of 

available regulatory alternatives and, if 

regulation is necessary, to select 

regulatory approaches that maximize 

net benefits (including potential 

economic, environmental, public health 

and safety effects, distributive impacts, 

and equity). Executive Order 13563 

emphasized the importance of 

quantifying both costs and benefits, of 

reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, 

and of promoting flexibility. The 

requirements in Executive Orders 12866 

and 13563 for the analysis of costs and 

benefits apply to rules that are 

determined to be significant. 

OIRA designated this rule as 

economically significant under 

Executive Order 12866 and therefore, 

OIRA has reviewed this rule. The costs 

and benefits of this rule are summarized 

below. The full cost benefit analysis is 

available on regulations.gov. 

Cost Benefit Analysis Summary 

The 2022 PCCP provides premium 

support of up to $5 per acre to eligible 

producers who plant and report to FSA 

(via the annual FSA–578 reporting) a 

qualifying cover crop on acreage insured 

under a Federal crop insurance policy 

(such as corn or soybeans) after June 15 

of the 2021 crop year or during the 2022 

crop year. The PCCP amount will not be 

paid directly to participants but will be 

accounted for in calculating total 

producer premium due from producers 

for the crop (for example, the corn or 

soybeans). Approximately 12.2 million 

net acres have received a premium 

reduction for the crop year 2021 PCCP. 

Note, however, that eligible acreage has 

expanded for the 2022 PCCP and in this 

analysis is projected at 23 million acres. 

The associated cost is estimated at 

$116.2 million for the crop year 2022 

PCCP. 

Environmental Review 

The environmental impacts of this 

final rule have been considered in a 

manner consistent with the provisions 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321–4347), the 

regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508), and because USDA will be 

making the payments to producers, the 

USDA regulation for compliance with 

NEPA (7 CFR part 1b). The FCIC 

Manager has determined this rule will 

not have a significant environmental 

effect. Therefore, FCIC will not prepare 

an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement for this 

action and this rule serves as 

documentation of the programmatic 

environmental compliance decision. 

Although OIRA has designated this 

rule as ‘‘economically significant’’ 

under Executive Order 12866, ‘‘. . . 

economic or social effects are not 

intended by themselves to require 

preparation of an environmental impact 

statement’’ when not interrelated to 

natural or physical environmental 

effects (see 40 CFR 1502.16(b)). PCCP 

was designed to avoid skewing planting 

decisions. Producers continue to make 

their planting and production decisions 

with the market signals in mind, rather 

than any expectation of what a new 

USDA program might look like. 

Executive Order 12988 

This rule has been reviewed under 

Executive Order 12988, ‘‘Civil Justice 

Reform.’’ This rule will not preempt 

State or local laws, regulations, or 

policies unless they represent an 

irreconcilable conflict with this rule. 

Before any judicial actions may be 

brought regarding the provisions of this 

rule, the administrative appeal 

provisions of 7 CFR part 11 are to be 

exhausted. 

Executive Order 13175 

This rule has been reviewed in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Executive Order 13175, ‘‘Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments.’’ Executive Order 13175 

requires Federal agencies to consult and 

coordinate with Tribes on a 

government-to-government basis on 

policies that have Tribal implications, 

including regulations, legislative 

comments or proposed legislation, and 

other policy statements or actions that 

have substantial direct effects on one or 

more Indian Tribes, on the relationship 

between the Federal Government and 

Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of 

power and responsibilities between the 

Federal Government and Indian Tribes. 

USDA has assessed the impact of this 

rule on Indian Tribes and determined 

that this rule does not, to our 

knowledge, have Tribal implications 

that required Tribal consultation under 

Executive Order 13175 at this time. If a 

Tribe requests consultation, the USDA 

Risk Management Agency and Federal 

Crop Insurance Corporation will work 

with the USDA Office of Tribal 

Relations to ensure meaningful 

consultation is provided where changes, 

additions, and modifications are not 

expressly mandated by law. Outside of 

Tribal consultation, the Risk 

Management Agency and Federal Crop 

Insurance Corporation is working with 

Tribes to provide information about 

PCCP. 

Unfunded Mandates 

Title II of the Unfunded Mandates 

Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA, Pub. L. 

104–4) requires Federal agencies to 

assess the effects of their regulatory 

actions of State, local, and Tribal 

governments, or the private sector. 

Agencies generally must prepare a 

written statement, including cost 

benefits analysis, for proposed and final 

rules with Federal mandates that may 

result in expenditures of $100 million or 

more in any 1 year for State, local or 

Tribal governments, in the aggregate, or 

to the private sector. UMRA generally 

requires agencies to consider 

alternatives and adopt the more cost 

effective or least burdensome alternative 

that achieves the objectives of the rule. 

This rule contains no Federal mandates, 

as defined in Title II of UMRA, for State, 

local and Tribal governments, or the 

private sector. Therefore, this rule is not 

subject to the requirements of sections 

202 and 205 of UMRA. 

Federal Assistance Program 

The title and number of the Federal 

Domestic Assistance Program listed in 

the Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance to which this rule applies is 

No. 10.450—Crop Insurance. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

In accordance with the provisions of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. chapter 35, subchapter I), the 

rule does not change the information 

collection approved by OMB under 


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control numbers 0563–0053 and 0563– 

0084. 

USDA Non-Discrimination Policy 

In accordance with Federal civil 

rights law and U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) civil rights 

regulations and policies, USDA, its 

Agencies, offices, and employees, and 

institutions participating in or 

administering USDA programs are 

prohibited from discriminating based on 

race, color, national origin, religion, sex, 

gender identity (including gender 

expression), sexual orientation, 

disability, age, marital status, family or 

parental status, income derived from a 

public assistance program, political 

beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior 

civil rights activity, in any program or 

activity conducted or funded by USDA 

(not all bases apply to all programs). 

Remedies and complaint filing 

deadlines vary by program or incident. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means of communication for 

program information (for example, 

braille, large print, audiotape, American 

Sign Language, etc.) should contact the 

responsible Agency or USDA TARGET 

Center at (202) 720–2600 or (844) 433– 

2774 (toll-free nationwide). 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. 

To file a program discrimination 

complaint, complete the USDA Program 

Discrimination Complaint Form, AD– 

3027, found online at https://

www.usda.gov/oascr/how-to-file-aprogram-discrimination-complaint and 

at any USDA office or write a letter 

addressed to USDA and provide in the 

letter all the information requested in 

the form. To request a copy of the 

complaint form, call (866) 632–9992. 

Submit your completed form or letter to 

USDA by mail to: U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–9410 or email: OAC@

usda.gov. 

USDA is an equal opportunity 

provider, employer, and lender. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 460 

Crop insurance, Disaster assistance. 

For the reasons discussed above, FCIC 

amends 7 CFR part 460 as follows: 

PART 460—ADDITIONAL DISASTER 

PAYMENTS 

■ 1. Revise the authority citation for part 

460 to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1506(i) and 1506(o); 

and Division N of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2021 (Pub. L. 116–260). 

■ 2. Add subpart B, consisting of 

§§ 460.8 through 460.13, to read as 

follows: 

Subpart B—Pandemic Cover Crop Program 

Sec. 

460.8 Applicability. 

460.9 Definitions. 

460.10 Eligibility. 

460.11 Calculating PCCP amounts for first 

insured crops. 

460.12 Calculating PCCP amounts for 

WFRP. 

460.13 Accounting for PCCP amounts. 

Subpart B—Pandemic Cover Crop 

Program 

§ 460.8 Applicability. 

(a) This subpart specifies the terms 

and conditions of the Pandemic Cover 

Crop Program (PCCP). 

(b) For the 2022 crop year, PCCP 

premium support is available to eligible 

producers for eligible insured acres on 

a crop insurance policy for a first 

insured crop on which the producer 

planted a qualifying cover crop after 

June 15, 2021, of the 2021 crop year, or 

during the 2022 crop year. 

(1) For the 2022 crop year, in states 

administering a cover crop program 

providing premium subsidy under an 

active Memorandum of Understanding 

(MOU) with RMA, as authorized by 

section 508(c)(8) of the Federal Crop 

Insurance Act, insured acres qualifying 

for a state premium subsidy amount are 

eligible for a matching amount under 

PCCP. 

(2) For the 2022 crop year, additional 

PCCP premium support is available to 

eligible producers for eligible Whole 

Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) acres 

on which the producer planted a 

qualifying cover crop after June 15, 

2021, of the 2021 crop year, or during 

the 2022 crop year. 

§ 460.9 Definitions. 

Approved Insurance Provider (AIP) 

means a legal entity that has entered 

into a reinsurance agreement with the 

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 

(FCIC) for the applicable reinsurance 

year and is authorized to sell and 

service policies or plans of insurance 

under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. 

Crop insurance policy means an 

insurance policy reinsured by FCIC 

under the provisions of the Federal Crop 

Insurance Act, as amended. It does not 

include private plans of insurance. 

Crop year means the period within 

which the insured crop is normally 

grown and is designated by the calendar 

year in which the insured crop is 

normally harvested. 

Eligible insured acres means insured 

acres on which the producer planted a 

qualifying cover crop after June 15, 

2021, during the 2021 crop year, or 

during the 2022 crop year, as reported 

on the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) 

common land unit(s) (CLU) to FSA via 

a completed and signed Form 578— 

Report of Acreage on or before March 

15, 2022, which may be prior to FSA’s 

acreage reporting date, and reported the 

same CLU(s) on their crop insurance 

acreage report by the applicable Federal 

crop insurance acreage reporting date 

for a 2022 crop year crop insurance 

policy for a first insured crop. 

Eligible WFRP acres means acres on 

which a person with a 2022 crop year 

WFRP policy planted a qualifying cover 

crop after June 15, 2021, during the 

2021 crop year, or during the 2022 crop 

year, as reported on the CLU(s) to FSA 

via a completed and signed Form 578- 

Report of Acreage on or before March 

15, 2022, which may be prior to FSA’s 

acreage reporting date. 

Eligible producer means a producer 

meeting all of the eligibility 

requirements for PCCP. 

FCIC means the Federal Crop 

Insurance Corporation, a wholly owned 

Government Corporation of USDA that 

administers the Federal crop insurance 

program. 

First insured crop means, with respect 

to a single crop year and any specific 

crop acreage, the first instance that an 

agricultural commodity is planted for 

harvest or prevented from being planted 

and is insured under the authority of the 

Federal Crop Insurance Act. 

FSA means the Farm Service Agency, 

USDA. 

FSA Common Land Unit (CLU) means 

the smallest unit of land that has a 

permanent, contiguous boundary, 

common land cover and land 

management, common owner, and 

common producer association. 

Insured acres means the participant’s 

share of insurable acreage that is 

insured in accordance with a crop 

insurance policy purchased from an 

AIP. 

Insured crop means a crop for which 

the participant has purchased a crop 

insurance policy from an AIP. 

MOU means Memorandum of 

Understanding. 

PCCP means Pandemic Cover Crop 

Program. 

Person means a person as defined in 

7 CFR 457.8(1). 

Qualifying cover crop means any of 

the four types of cover crops: 

(1) Cereals and other grasses; 

(2) Legumes; 

(3) Brassicas; and 

(4) Other non-legume broadleaves, 

and mixtures of two or more cover crop 

species planted at the same time. An 


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insured crop is not considered a 

qualifying cover crop. 

RMA means the Risk Management 

Agency, USDA. 

USDA means United States 

Department of Agriculture. 

WFRP means Whole Farm Revenue 

Protection. 

§ 460.10 Eligibility. 

(a) For the 2022 crop year, to be 

eligible for premium support under 

PCCP, the participant must be a person 

who is eligible to receive Federal 

benefits and who has purchased a crop 

insurance policy for a first insured crop 

from an AIP for insured acres on which 

the participant planted a qualifying 

cover crop after June 15, 2021, during 

the 2021 crop year, or during the 2022 

crop year. 

(1) Cover crops must be specifically 

reported to FSA via the Form-578 with 

the corresponding crop code. 

(2) Potential participants that are 

uncertain of whether their cover crop 

was reported to the FSA are encouraged 

to contact their local FSA county office 

(http://farmers.gov/service-locator). 

(3) Only acreage reports that are filed 

or amended prior to March 15 will be 

considered for PCCP. 

(b) Participants who are in violation 

of Highly Erodible Land or Wetlands 

Conservation (16 U.S.C. 3811, 3812, and 

3821) are not eligible to receive benefits 

under PCCP. 

(c) A person is not eligible to receive 

benefits under PCCP if at any time that 

person is determined to be ineligible for 

crop insurance. 

(d) Supplemental Coverage Option, 

Enhanced Coverage Option, PostApplication Coverage Endorsement, and 

Hurricane Insurance Protection—Wind 

Index policies or endorsements are not 

eligible for PCCP. 

(e) Stacked Income Protection Plan 

(STAX) and Margin Protection (MP) 

policies are only eligible for PCCP when 

insured as a standalone policy. STAX 

and MP endorsements to underlying 

polices are not eligible for PCCP. 

§ 460.11 Calculating PCCP amounts for 

first insured crops. 

(a) For the 2022 crop year, for eligible 

insured acres covered under a crop 

insurance policy for a first insured crop, 

the amount of premium support under 

PCCP for each insured acre will be $5, 

calculated on a CLU basis, with a 

maximum equal to the amount of 

premium owed by the insured. 

(b) For the 2022 crop year, in states 

administering a cover crop program 

providing premium subsidy under an 

active MOU with RMA, as authorized by 

Section 508(c)(8) of the Federal Crop 

Insurance Act, insured acres qualifying 

for a state premium subsidy amount are 

eligible for a matching amount under 

PCCP, calculated on a CLU basis, which 

may be in addition to the amount in 

paragraph (a) of this section. 

(1) The matching amount under PCCP 

per insured acre will be equal to the 

state contribution per insured acre on a 

CLU basis. 

(2) The matching amount under PCCP 

per insured acre will be limited by the 

amount of premium owed by the 

insured on a CLU basis. If limited, the 

state contribution amount and matching 

PCCP amount will be reduced 

proportionately on a CLU basis. 

(c) Amounts under PCCP are limited 

to the full amount of premium owed by 

the insured for the eligible insured acres 

on a CLU basis. If the full amount under 

PCCP would result in a negative 

premium balance for the insured on a 

CLU basis, PCCP amounts will be 

limited to the full amount of premium 

owed on a CLU basis, with the amount 

calculated in paragraph (b) of this 

section being applied first and the 

amount calculated in paragraph (a) of 

this section being applied second. 

(1) In cases where insureds are 

eligible for both paragraphs (a) and (b) 

of this section, and premium owed on 

a CLU basis is less than the amount in 

paragraph (b) of this section, the state 

contribution amount and matching 

PCCP amount in paragraph (b) of this 

section will be reduced proportionally 

on a CLU basis, and there will be no 

PCCP premium support amount applied 

in paragraph (a) of this section. 

(2) In cases where insureds are 

eligible for both paragraphs (a) and (b) 

of this section, and premium owed on 

a CLU basis is greater than the amount 

in paragraph (b) of this section but less 

than the sum of the amounts in 

paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, 

there will be no reduction to the state 

contribution amount and matching 

PCCP amount in paragraph (b) of this 

section, and the PCCP premium support 

amount in paragraph (a) of this section 

will be reduced. 

(d) If the eligible insured acres are 

adjusted or revised for any reason, such 

as an overreporting of insured acres, the 

amount under PCCP will be based on 

the eligible insured acres after any such 

amendment. 

§ 460.12 Calculating PCCP amounts for 

WFRP. 

(a) For the 2022 crop year, for eligible 

WFRP acres, the amount of premium 

support under PCCP for each acre will 

be $5, with a maximum equal to the 

amount of WFRP premium owed by the 

insured. 

(b) PCCP amounts for WFRP are 

limited to the full amount of premium 

owed by the insured for the WFRP 

policy. If the full amount under PCCP 

would result in a negative premium 

balance for the insured, PCCP amounts 

will be limited to the full amount of 

premium owed. 

(c) If the eligible WFRP acres are 

adjusted or revised for any reason, such 

as an overreporting of planted cover 

crop acres, the amount under PCCP will 

be based on the eligible WFRP acres 

after any such amendment. 

§ 460.13 Accounting for PCCP amounts. 

(a) The amount under PCCP will not 

be paid directly to eligible producers. 

FCIC and AIPs will account for the 

amount when calculating total producer 

premium due. AIPs will adjust 

participant bills accordingly. All bills 

follow the same terms and conditions 

specified in the crop insurance policy, 

regardless of PCCP amounts. 

(b) PCCP premium support will be 

provided via premium billing 

adjustments by the applicable RMA 

premium billing date for the insured 

crop. 

(c) PCCP premium support is 

available both for eligible insured acres 

and for eligible WFRP acres associated 

with the same planted acreage of 

qualifying cover crops. 

(d) The payment limitations in 7 CFR 

760.1507 are not applicable to PCCP. 

(e) RMA will obtain cover crop 

records from FSA and determine 

eligibility such that eligible producers 

do not need to take any additional 

specific action through their crop 

insurance agent to enroll in the PCCP. 

(1) In the event that any PCCP amount 

is determined to be incorrect, the 

amount will be recalculated until the 

2022 reinsurance year annual settlement 

date of October 6, 2023, unless 

otherwise specified by the RMA 

Administrator. 

(2) After October 6, 2023, the amount 

will be final except in cases of 

misrepresentation, fraud, scheme, or 

device. 

Marcia Bunger, 

Manager, Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation. 

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