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7 CFR §400.209

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Any Contractor under the Contract is required to: (The Corporation may approve other compatible specifications if accepted by the Corporation and if requested by the Contractor)
  1. (a)Adopt a plan for the purpose of transmitting and receiving electronically, information to and from the Corporation concerning the original executed crop insurance documents;
  2. (b)Maintain an electronic system which must be tested and approved by the Corporation;
  3. (c)Maintain Corporation approval of the electronic system as a condition to the electronic transmission and reception of data by the Contractor;
  4. (d)Utilize the Corporation approved automated data processing and electronic data transmission capabilities to process crop insurance documents as required herein; and
  5. (e)Establish and maintain the electronic equipment and computer software program capability to:
    1. (1)Receive and store actuarial data electronically via telecommunications utilizing 3780 protocol and utilizing a BELL 208B or compatible modem at 4800 bits per second (bps);
    2. (2)Enter and store information from original crop insurance documents into electronic format;
    3. (3)Verify electronically stored information recorded from crop insurance documents with electronically stored actuarial information;
    4. (4)Compute and print the data elements in the Summary of Protection;
    5. (5)Transmit crop insurance data electronically, via 3780 protocol utilizing a BELL 208B or compatible modem at 4800 bps;
    6. (6)Receive electronic acknowledgements, error messages, and other data via 3780 protocol utilizing a BELL 208B or compatible modem at 4800 bps, and relate error messages to original crop insurance documents; and
    7. (7)Store backup data and physical documents.