The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has released the 2015 Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA) and Appendices I, II, and IV, and the 2015 Livestock Price Reinsurance Agreement (LPRA) and Appendices I, II, and IV, which become effective July 1, 2014. The documents are located on the RMA website at: www.rma.usda.gov/policy-procedure/reinsurance-agreements. The draft Appendix III that provides standards, procedure and instructions for reporting data to RMA will be issued by May 10, 2014.

Background

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) contracted with KPMG, LLP (KPMG) to conduct an independent study of the economic costs of delivering the Federal crop insurance program to US agricultural producers. KPMG will conduct a number of interviews and surveys which will impose an information collection burden on the general public. Thus, RMA and KPMG were required by the Paperwork Reduction Act to obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the data collection exercise as it relates to the interviews, surveys and related collection activities.