Department of Agriculture June 27, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated With the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks
Document Number: 2024-14126
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-06-27
Agency: Department of Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public input on procedures for the quantification, reporting, and verification of the effect of climate-smart farming practices on the greenhouse gas (GHG) net emissions estimates associated with the production of domestic (i.e., grown in the U.S.) agricultural commodities used as biofuel feedstocks. Agricultural management practices that mitigate GHG emissions and/or sequester soil carbon can be integrated into GHG analysis to reflect the differing GHG outcomes of feedstocks based on their production. However, many clean transportation fuel programs currently do not assign lower carbon intensity (CI) estimates (i.e., lower lifecycle GHG emissions of the fuel per unit of energy) to crops grown with climate-smart practices relative to the same crops grown with conventional farming practices. This Request for Information seeks information on practices that have the potential to mitigate GHG emissions and/or sequester carbon, and quantification, reporting, and verification approaches for the GHG outcomes associated with domestic agricultural commodities used as biofuel feedstocks.
Expanding Options for Specialty and Organic Growers (EOSOG)
Document Number: 2024-13198
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-06-27
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is amending its regulations to expand the availability of enterprise and optional units. FCIC is also clarifying double cropping requirements when another plan of insurance does not require records of acreage and production. FCIC is removing burdensome written agreement requirements and setting new yield guarantee limits for new breaking acreage. In this rule, FCIC is providing flexibility and clarifying rules regarding assignment of indemnity and streamlining and shortening good farming practice determinations. FCIC is also clarifying the timing and method of yield reductions for several perennial crops, and allowing sunburn damaged walnuts to be eligible for indemnity payments through quality adjustment. The changes to the crop insurance policies resulting from the amendments in this rule are applicable for the 2025 and succeeding crop years for crops with a contract change date on or after June 30, 2024. For all other crops, the changes to the policies made in this rule are applicable for the 2026 and succeeding crop years.
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