# [Amended]
**AGENCY:**
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA.
**ACTION:**
Correcting amendment.
**SUMMARY:**
This document contains necessary amendments to apply a technical correction to the final rule with request for comments for the California Avocado Crop Insurance Provisions which published in the *Federal Register* on December 27, 2017.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* April 17, 2018.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Ron Lundine, Director, Product Management, Actuarial and Product Design Division, Risk Management Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, Beacon Facility, Stop 0812, Room 421, P.O. Box 419205, Kansas City, MO 64141-6205, telephone (816) 926-3854.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Background**
This technical correction is being published to remove section 13 of the “California avocado crop insurance provisions,” published December 27, 2017 (Docket No. FCIC-17-0002). Section 13 excludes the use of written agreements by not allowing the written agreement provisions in the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions to apply. This provision was necessary when the program was a pilot program to ensure there were no changes made to the policy so that the existing terms would be evaluated to make sure they were actuarially sound and there were no program integrity issues. Once the pilot program is completed, evaluated, and approved for permanence, the restriction on written agreements is no longer necessary. As a result of the removal of section 13, FCIC is allowing the use of written agreements under the California avocado crop provisions and redesignating subtitle numbering from section 14 to section 13.
**List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 457**
Crop insurance, California avocado, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Accordingly, 7 CFR part 457 is corrected by making the following amendments:
**PART 457—COMMON CROP INSURANCE REGULATIONS**
**7 CFR Part 457**
1. The authority citation for part 457 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
7 U.S.C. 1506(l) and 1506(o).
§ 457.175
**7 CFR Part 457**
2. Amend § 457.175, in the California avocado crop provisions, by removing section 13 and redesignating section 14 as section 13.
Signed in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2018.
Heather Manzano,
Acting Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.