diff --git a/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/README b/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/README
index 9e13f46ced04..ef7ef254823b 100644
--- a/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/README
+++ b/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/README
@@ -4,5 +4,7 @@ wasintroduced in MPAS-Ocean PR #4521 and has been made a stealth feature in
 
     config_AM_conservationCheck_enable = .true.
 
-Then, it enables the use of MPAS-Ocean history files in testing by running
-a sed command to modify env_archive.xml.
\ No newline at end of file
+However, it shoudl be noted that MPAS-Ocean history files are not currently
+included in E3SM testing so non-BFB results will not be detected unless one
+manually changes to 'compname="mpaso" exclude_testing="false"' in the file
+cime_config/config_archive.xml.
diff --git a/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/shell_commands b/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/shell_commands
deleted file mode 100644
index 62c82542595f..000000000000
--- a/components/mpas-ocean/cime_config/testdefs/testmods_dirs/mpaso/conservation_check/shell_commands
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# include mpas-ocean outputs in testing
-sed 's|compname="mpaso" exclude_testing="true"|compname="mpaso" exclude_testing="false"|' env_archive.xml > tmp_env_archive.xml
-mv tmp_env_archive.xml env_archive.xml