114 STAT. 366 PUBLIC LAW 106-224 —JUNE 20, 2000 (d) REIMBURSEMENT RATE CHANGE. — Section 508(b)(ll) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(b)(ll)) is amended by striking "11 percent" and inserting "8 percent". SEC. 104. ADMINISTRATIVE FEE FOR ADDITIONAL COVERAGE. Section 508(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(c)) is amended by striking paragraph (10) and inserting the following: "(10) ADMINISTRATIVE FEE.— "(A) FEE REQUIRED.— If a producer elects to purchase coverage for a crop at a level in excess of catastrophic risk protection, the producer shall pay an administrative fee for the additional coverage of $30 per crop per county. " (B) USE OF FEES; WAIVER. —Subparagraphs (D) and (E) of subsection (b)(5) shall apply with respect to the collection and use of administrative fees under this paragraph.". SEC. 105. ASSIGNED YIELDS AND ACTUAL PRODUCTION fflSTORY ADJUSTMENTS. (a) ASSIGNED YIELDS. —Section 508(g)(2)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(g)(2)(B)) is amended— (1) by striking "assigned a yield" and inserting "assigned— "(i) a yield"; (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting "; or"; and (3) by adding at the end the following: "(ii) a yield determined by the Corporation, in the case of— "(I) a producer that has not had a share of the production of the insured crop for more than two crop years, as determined by the Secretsiry; "(II) a producer that produces an agricultural commodity on land that has not been farmed by the producer; or "(III) a producer that rotates a crop produced on a farm to a crop that has not been produced on the farm.". (b) ACTUAL PRODUCTION HISTORY ADJUSTMENTS. — Section 508(g) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(4) ADJUSTMENT IN ACTUAL PRODUCTION HISTORY TO ESTAB- LISH INSURABLE YIELDS. — " (A) APPLICATION.— Th is paragraph shall apply whenever the Corporation uses the actual production records of the producer to establish the producer's actual production history for an agricultural commodity for any of the 2001 and subsequent crop years. "(B) ELECTION TO USE PERCENTAGE OF TRANSITIONAL YIELD. — If, for one or more of the crop years used to establish the producer's actual production history of an agricultural commodity, the producer's recorded or appraised yield of the commodity was less than 60 percent of the applicable trsuisitional yield, as determined by the Corporation, the Corporation sheJl, at the election of the producer— "(i) exclude any of such recorded or appraised yield; and
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