Rule2025-15487
Removal of Obsolete Regulations
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Published
August 14, 2025
Effective
August 14, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentFederal Crop Insurance Corporation
Abstract
Risk Management Agency (RMA), on behalf of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), is in the process of reviewing all regulations within its purview to reduce regulatory burdens and costs. Pursuant to this review, FCIC has identified the following obsolete, unnecessary, and outdated provisions in title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulation (CFR). FCIC is removing these provisions to streamline and clarify the dictates of title 7. The changes in this rule will have no impacts on past or present FCIC customers.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 39089-39090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15487]
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 155 / Thursday, August 14, 2025 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
7 CFR Parts 400 and 460
RIN 0563-AC90
Removal of Obsolete Regulations
AGENCY: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: Risk Management Agency (RMA), on behalf of the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation (FCIC), is in the process of reviewing all
regulations within its purview to reduce regulatory burdens and costs.
Pursuant to this review, FCIC has identified the following obsolete,
unnecessary, and outdated provisions in title 7 of the Code of Federal
Regulation (CFR). FCIC is removing these provisions to streamline and
clarify the dictates of title 7. The changes in this rule will have no
impacts on past or present FCIC customers.
DATES: This rule is effective August 14, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sherrie Grimm; telephone: (202) 401-
0062; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#affcc7caddddc6ca81e8ddc6c2c2efdadccbce81c8c0d9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="03506b6671716a662d44716a6e6e43767067622d646c75">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals with disabilities who
require alternative means for communication should contact the USDA
Target Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and text telephone (TTY mode))
or dial 711 for Telecommunications Relay Service (both voice and text
telephone users can initiate this call from any telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The President's Executive Order 14219 of February 19, 2025,
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's
``Department of Government Efficiency'' Deregulatory Initiative, 90 FR
10583, and subsequent implementing memorandum directed all agency heads
to review regulations within their purview and rescind those that are,
among other things, unlawful or unnecessary. FCIC has undertaken such a
review and is accordingly rescinding the following provisions from
title 7.
Regulatory Certifications
Executive Orders
This document does not meet the criteria for a significant
regulatory action as specified by Executive Order (E.O.) 12866. This
action also has no federalism or tribal implications and will not
impose substantial unreimbursed compliance costs on States, local
governments, or Indian Tribal governments. Therefore, impact statements
are not required under E.O. 13132 or 13175.
Environmental Evaluation
This rule will have no significant effect on the human environment;
therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor impact statement is
required.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This rule does not contain reporting or recordkeeping requirements
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Explanation of Provisions
The regulations removed are:
Actual Production History (7 CFR Part 400)
The regulations at 7 CFR part 400 subpart G were transferred to 7
CFR 457.8. The coverage offered in the program was moved in the CFR but
not eliminated, rendering this specific regulation obsolete and
redundant. Thus, for the reasons explained in the preamble, FCIC is
eliminating this part to streamline title 7.
Prevented Planting Supplemental Disaster Payments (7 CFR Part 460)
FCIC is eliminating the regulations at 7 CFR part 460 subpart A.
This subpart specifies the terms and conditions of prevented planting
supplemental disaster payments. Prevented planting supplemental
disaster payments provide additional compensation to producers
prevented from planting crops insured under crop insurance policy
reinsured by Federal Crop Insurance Corporation due to disaster-related
conditions. However, these payments were only available in 2019.
Therefore, pursuant to the reasoning laid out in the preamble, FCIC is
rescinding the regulations found at part 460 subpart A.
Pandemic Cover Crop Program (7 CFR Part 460)
FCIC is eliminating the regulations at 7 CFR part 460 subpart B.
This subpart specifies the terms and conditions of the Pandemic Cover
Crop Program. Program premium support was limited to eligible producers
for eligible insured acres during the 2021 and 2022 crop seasons. As
this time period has passed, these regulations are obsolete. Therefore,
FCIC is rescinding part 460 subpart B pursuant to the reasons laid out
in the preamble.
List of Subjects
7 CFR Part 400
Actual production history coverage plan, Crop insurance.
7 CFR Part 460
Crop insurance, Disaster assistance.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, FCIC amends 7 CFR parts 400
and 460 as follows:
PART 400--GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS
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1. The authority citation for part 400 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1506(1), 1506(o).
Subpart G--[Removed and Reserved]
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2. Under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 1506, 1516, remove and reserve
subpart G.
PART 460--ADDITIONAL DISASTER PAYMENTS
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3. The authority citation for part 460 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1506(i) and 1506(o); Division N of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Pub. L. 116-260).
Subparts A and B--[Removed and Reserved]
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4. Under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 1506(i) and 1506(o); Division N of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
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(Pub. L. 116-260), remove and reserve subparts A and B.
Patricia Swanson,
Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2025-15487 Filed 8-13-25; 8:45 am]
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