diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d8b6b69fea84..e1d332b26d70 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed the alarms in the couplers to account if they are called before ESMF_ClockAdvance is called
+- Reverted generic/VarSpec.F90 to hash b02e8ff (fix for #1410)
 
 ## [2.18.0] - 2022-02-23
 
diff --git a/generic/VarSpec.F90 b/generic/VarSpec.F90
index 828797eb9075..080cce7fff9f 100644
--- a/generic/VarSpec.F90
+++ b/generic/VarSpec.F90
@@ -1363,8 +1363,8 @@ function MAPL_VarSpecEQ(s1, s2)
            S2%SPECPtr%ACCMLT_INTERVAL /= 0) then
 
          if (S1%SPECPtr%ACCMLT_INTERVAL /= S2%SPECPtr%ACCMLT_INTERVAL ) RETURN
+         if (S1%SPECPtr%COUPLE_INTERVAL /= S2%SPECPtr%COUPLE_INTERVAL ) RETURN
       end if
-      if (S1%SPECPtr%COUPLE_INTERVAL /= S2%SPECPtr%COUPLE_INTERVAL ) RETURN
 
       MAPL_VarSpecEQ = .TRUE.
       RETURN