Any Contractor under the Contract is required to:

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.

      (The Corporation may approve other compatible specifications if accepted by the Corporation and if requested by the Contractor)