1. it seems that the $120 fee for newcrop per practitioner is annual, not one time.
2. newcrop is currently trying to solve a glitch for epcs for midlevel practioners. The took my money w/o a whimper, but cannot seem to enable the 2 step verification, although AC is working on it.
3. Re the governor's signature on the legislation to postpone epcs, no one seems to know, so, at least my office will assume the worst, and upgrade in preparation for this needless complication.