Crop/Plan Codes not requiring a Type 17 Record - Format-Edits

June 28, 2007

Exhibit 17 – 1

FCIC-Appendix III

Crop/Plan Codes NOT Requiring a 17 Record
Format/Edits

Plan Code

Crop Code

50

0073

Nursery

12

0091
0041
0021
0033
0051
0075
0048
0081
0011

Barley
Corn
Cotton
Forage Production
Grain Sorghum
Peanuts
Rangeland
Soybeans
Wheat

13

0088

PRF

14

0088

PRF

73 (GRIP)

0041
0021
0051
0081
0011

Corn
Cotton
Grain Sorghum
Soybeans
Wheat

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Exhibit 17 – 2

FCIC-Appendix III

Legal Land ID Validation
Format/Edits

State/County Cross Reference File
_

The purpose of the State/County Cross-Reference file is to determine, at the state/county level, whether or not a
Type 17 Record must contain one Legal Land ID (i.e. Type “L”). Once this test has been completed satisfactorily,
any Legal Land IDs present can then be validated using the Township/Range Validation File, discussed on the next
page.

_

Each record in the State/County Cross-Reference file contains three fields:
•
•
•

_

_

State FIPS Code
County FIPS Code
Survey Status Flag

The “Survey Status Flag” has three possible values:
•

Y - the entire county was surveyed, and Type 17 Records must contain at least one valid Legal Land ID
(township, range, section) representing a township (6 miles x 6 miles);

•

S - the entire county was surveyed, and Type 17 Records must contain at least one valid Legal Land ID
representing a specific section (1 mile x 1 mile);

•

P - the county was partially surveyed (normally this occurred because of pre-existing colonial land grants or
pre-surveyed Indian/Military reserves), in which case Legal Land IDs are optional, but when present will be
validated;

•

N - the county is situated in a state not included in the original Public Land Survey, in which case Legal
Land IDs are not valid.

Reporting Farm Serial Numbers:
•

Companies can report Farm Serial Numbers on the Type 17 Record. If the record is for a policy in a
surveyed county (Survey Status Flag = “Y”), it must contain at least one valid Legal Land ID.

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Exhibit 17 – 2

FCIC-Appendix III

Legal Land ID Validation
Format/Edits

Township Validation File
The Township Validation file contains one entry for every township included in the Public Land Survey
System, and is designed to be used for validating the township and range portions of each Legal Land
ID received on Type 17 records.
The file contains (for validation purposes) four fields:
•
•
•
•

State FIPS
County FIPS
Township (e.g. 001N)
Range (e.g. 001E)

The validation process consists simply of extracting the same four fields from the Type 17 record, and
determining whether or not there is a matching record in the validation file.
The validation file was built from data supplied by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
There are instances in several states where small parcels of land between two townships (or ranges)
were surveyed as “half” townships (or ranges), containing one or more sections. These anomalies have
been grouped together in the township validation file. However, the section (or sections) contained in
these pieces of lands will be identified separately when the township/range/section validation files are
made available for each state.

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