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7 U.S.C. § 7507 — State and local supplementation of commodities
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary shall establish procedures under which State and local agencies, charitable institutions, or any other persons may supplement the commodities distributed under the program authorized by this chapter for use by emergency feeding organizations with nutritious and wholesome commodities that such entities or persons donate to State agencies and emergency feeding organizations for distribution, in all or part of the State, in addition to the commodities otherwise made available under this chapter.
**(b) Use of funds and facilities** States and emergency feeding organizations may use the funds appropriated under this chapter and equipment, structures, vehicles, and all other facilities involved in the storage, handling, or distribution of commodities made available under this chapter, and the personnel, both paid or volunteer, involved in such storage, handling, or distribution, to store, handle or distribute commodities donated for the use of emergency feeding organizations under subsection (a).
**(c) Volunteer workers** State and emergency feeding organizations shall continue, to the maximum extent practicable, to use volunteer workers and commodities and other foodstuffs donated by charitable and other organizations in the operation of the program authorized by this section.
**(d) Projects to harvest, process, package, or transport donated commodities**
(1) **Definition of project** — In this subsection, the term “project” means the harvesting, processing, packaging, or transportation of unharvested, unprocessed, or unpackaged commodities donated by agricultural producers, processors, or distributors for use by emergency feeding organizations under subsection (a).
(2) **Federal funding for projects**
(A) *In general* — Subject to
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary shall establish procedures under which State and local agencies, charitable institutions, or any other persons may supplement the commodities distributed under the program authorized by this chapter for use by emergency feeding organizations with nutritious and wholesome commodities that such entities or persons donate to State agencies and emergency feeding organizations for distribution, in all or part of the State, in addition to the commodities otherwise made available under this chapter.
**(b) Use of funds and facilities** States and emergency feeding organizations may use the funds appropriated under this chapter and equipment, structures, vehicles, and all other facilities involved in the storage, handling, or distribution of commodities made available under this chapter, and the personnel, both paid or volunteer, involved in such storage, handling, or distribution, to store, handle or distribute commodities donated for the use of emergency feeding organizations under subsection (a).
**(c) Volunteer workers** State and emergency feeding organizations shall continue, to the maximum extent practicable, to use volunteer workers and commodities and other foodstuffs donated by charitable and other organizations in the operation of the program authorized by this section.
**(d) Projects to harvest, process, package, or transport donated commodities**
(1) **Definition of project** — In this subsection, the term “project” means the harvesting, processing, packaging, or transportation of unharvested, unprocessed, or unpackaged commodities donated by agricultural producers, processors, or distributors for use by emergency feeding organizations under subsection (a).
(2) **Federal funding for projects**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C) and paragraph (3), using funds made available under paragraph (5), the Secretary may provide funding to States to pay for the costs of carrying out a project.
(B) *Federal share* — The Federal share of the cost of a project under subparagraph (A) shall not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of the project.
(C) *Allocation*
(i) *In general* — Each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate the funds made available under subparagraph (A), based on a formula determined by the Secretary, to States that have submitted a State plan describing a plan of operation for a project under [section 7503(b)(5) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7503/b/5&num=0&edition=prelim).
(ii) *Reallocation* — If the Secretary determines that a State will not expend all of the funds allocated to the State for a fiscal year under clause (i), the Secretary shall reallocate the unexpended funds to other States that have submitted under [section 7503(b)(5) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7503/b/5&num=0&edition=prelim) a State plan describing a plan of operation for a project during that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year, as the Secretary determines appropriate.
(iii) *Reports* — Each State to which funds are allocated for a fiscal year under this subparagraph shall, on a regular basis, submit to the Secretary financial reports describing the use of the funds.
(3) **Project purposes** — A State may only use Federal funds received under paragraph (2) for a project the purposes of which are—
(A) to reduce food waste at the agricultural production, processing, or distribution level through the donation of food;
(B) to provide food to individuals in need; and
(C) to build relationships between agricultural producers, processors, and distributors and emergency feeding organizations through the donation of food.
(4) **Cooperative agreements** — The Secretary may encourage a State agency that carries out a project using Federal funds received under paragraph (2) to enter into cooperative agreements with State agencies of other States under [section 7505(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7505/d&num=0&edition=prelim) to maximize the use of commodities donated under the project.
(5) **Funding** — Out of funds not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary to carry out this subsection $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2031, to remain available until the end of the subsequent fiscal year.
**(e) Food waste** The Secretary shall issue guidance outlining best practices to minimize the food waste of the commodities donated under subsection (a).
**(f) Food donation standards**
(1) **Definitions** — In this subsection:
(A) *Apparently wholesome food* — The term “apparently wholesome food” has the meaning given the term in [section 1791(b) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1791/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Institution of higher education* — The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given the term in [section 1002 of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1002&num=0&edition=prelim).
(C) *Qualified direct donor* — The term “qualified direct donor” means a retail food store, wholesaler, agricultural producer, restaurant, caterer, school food authority, or institution of higher education.
(2) **Guidance**
(A) *In general* — Not later than 180 days after December 20, 2018, the Secretary shall issue guidance to promote awareness of donations of apparently wholesome food protected under [section 1791(c) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1791/c&num=0&edition=prelim) by qualified direct donors in compliance with applicable State and local health, food safety, and food handling laws (including regulations).
(B) *Issuance* — The Secretary shall encourage State agencies and emergency feeding organizations to share the guidance issued under subparagraph (A) with qualified direct donors.
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As used in this chapter, the term:
**(a)** “Access device” means any card, plate, code, account number, or other means of access, including point of sale devices, that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain payments, allotments, benefits, money, goods, or other things of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds under this chapter.
**(b)** “Allotment” means the total value of benefits a household is authorized to receive during each month.
**(c)** “Allowable medical expenses” means expenditures for (1) medical and dental care, (2) hospitalization or nursing care (including hospitalization or nursing care of an individual who was a household member immediately prior to entering a hospital or nursing home), (3) prescription drugs when prescribed by a licensed practitioner authorized under State law and over-the-counter medication (including insulin) when approved by a licensed practitioner or other qualified health professional, (4) health and hospitalization insurance policies (excluding the costs of health and accident or income maintenance policies), (5) medicare premiums related to coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 1395](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1395&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], (6) dentures, hearing aids, and prosthetics (including the costs of securing and maintaining a seeing eye dog), (7) eye glasses prescribed by a physician skilled in eye disease or by an optometrist, (8) reasonable costs of transportation necessary to secure medical treatment or services, and (9) maintaining an attendant, homemaker, home health aide, housekeeper, or child care services due to age, infirmity, or illness.
**(d) Benefit.—** The term “benefi
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**(a) Definition of institution of higher education for purposes of student assistance programs**
(1) **Inclusion of additional institutions** — Subject to paragraphs (2) through (4) of this subsection, the term “institution of higher education” for purposes of subchapter IV includes, in addition to the institutions covered by the definition in [section 1001 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(A) a proprietary institution of higher education (as defined in subsection (b) of this section);
(B) a postsecondary vocational institution (as defined in subsection (c) of this section); and
(C) only for the purposes of part D of subchapter IV, an institution outside the United States that is comparable to an institution of higher education as defined in [section 1001 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001&num=0&edition=prelim) and that has been approved by the Secretary for the purpose of part D of subchapter IV, consistent with the requirements of [section 1087b(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1087b/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Institutions outside the United States**
(A) *In general* — For the purpose of qualifying as an institution under paragraph (1)(C), the Secretary shall establish criteria by regulation for the approval of institutions outside the United States and for the determination that such institutions are comparable to an institution of higher education as defined in [section 1001 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001&num=0&edition=prelim) (except that a graduate medical school, nursing schoo
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**(a) Maintenance of base acres and payment yields** The Secretary shall maintain, for each covered commodity and upland cotton, base acres and payment yields on a farm established under sections 8702 and 8751 of this title, as adjusted pursuant to sections 8711, 8712, 8718, and 8752 of this title, as in effect on September 30, 2013, and as adjusted pursuant to sections 9012 and 9013 of this title.
**(b) Streamlining** In implementing this chapter and the amendments made by this title,11 See References in Text note below. the Secretary shall—
(1) continue to reduce administrative burdens and costs to producers by streamlining and reducing paperwork, forms, and other administrative requirements, to ensure that—
(A) a producer (or an agent of a producer) may report information, electronically (including geospatial data) or conventionally, to the Department of Agriculture, subject to the Secretary—
(i) establishing reasonable levels of tolerance that reflect the differences in accuracy between measures of common land units and geospatial data; and
(ii) ensuring that discrepancies that occur within the levels of tolerance established under clause (i) shall not be used to penalize a producer (or an agent of a producer) under any program administered by the Department of Agriculture;
(B) on the request of a producer (or an agent of a producer), the Department of Agriculture electronically shares with the producer (or agent) in real time and without cost to the producer (or agent) the common land unit data, related farm level data, conservation practices, and other information of the producer through a single Department of Agriculture-wide login;
(C) not later than September 30, 2020, the Administrator of the Risk Management Agency and the Administrator of
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 7506
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1988 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–435 to be effective and im-
plemented on Oct. 1, 1988, see section 701(a) of Pub. L.
100–435, set out as a note under section 2012 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Pub. L. 98–92, § 2, Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 608, provided
in part that this section is effective Oct. 1, 1983.
§ 7506. Assurances; anticipated use
(a) The Secretary shall take such precautions
as the Secretary deems necessary to assure that
any eligible recipient agency receiving commod-
ities under this chapter will provide such com-
modities to persons served by the eligible recipi-
ent agency and will not diminish its normal ex-
penditures for food by reason of the receipt of
such commodities. The Secretary shall also take
such precautions as the Secretary deems nec-
essary to assure that commodities made avail-
able under this chapter will not displace com-
mercial sales of such commodities or the prod-
ucts thereof. The Secretary shall not make com-
modities available for donation in any quantity
or manner that the Secretary, in the Secretary’s
discretion, determines may, substitute for the
same or any other agricultural produce that
would otherwise be purchased in the market.
(b) Commodities provided under this chapter
shall be distributed only in quantities that can
be consumed without waste. No eligible recipi-
ent agency may receive commodities under this
chapter in excess of anticipated use, based on in-
ventory records and controls, or in excess of its
ability to accept and store such commodities.
(Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203C, as added Pub. L.
98–92, § 2(5), Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 610; amended
Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1566, Dec. 23, 1985
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