The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing its final rule with respect to the amendments to the production flexibility contract regulations published as an interim final rule in the Federal Register on October 23, 1997. After considering the comments received from the public, this rule adopts the interim rule as final with changes as indicated. The rule also incorporates a specific change required by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, which provides that if wild rice is planted on contract acreage, the contract payment shall be reduced in an amount reflecting each contract acre planted to wild rice.