§1785 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

States, state education agencies, schools, and nonprofit groups in these programs must keep the records and accounts the Secretary needs to check that rules were followed. Those records must be available for the Secretary’s people to inspect and audit at reasonable times and kept for not more than three years or for however long the Secretary says is needed. The Secretary can decide the size of, settle, change, reduce, deny, or forgive claims that come from these programs or the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. That power does not limit the Attorney General’s authority under section 516 of title 28 to handle lawsuits for the United States.

Title 42, §1785

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(a)States, State educational agencies, schools, and nonprofit institutions participating in programs under this chapter shall keep such accounts and records as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to determine whether there has been compliance with this chapter and the regulations hereunder. Such accounts and records shall be available at any reasonable time for inspection and audit by representatives of the Secretary and shall be preserved for such period of time, not in excess of three years, as the Secretary determines is necessary.

(b)With regard to any claim arising under this chapter or under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act [42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.], the Secretary shall have the authority to determine the amount of, to settle and to adjust any such claim, and to compromise or deny such claim or any part thereof. The Secretary shall also have the authority to waive such claims if the Secretary determines that to do so would serve the purposes of either this chapter or the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed to diminish the authority of the Attorney General of the United States under section 516 of title 28 to conduct litigation on behalf of the United States.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is act June 4, 1946, ch. 281, 60 Stat. 230, which is classified generally to chapter 13 (§ 1751 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1751 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–78 substituted “Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act” for “National School Lunch Act” in two places. 1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–193 substituted “be available at any reasonable time” for “at all times be available”. 1981—Pub. L. 97–35 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 820(a)(7)(C), of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 1753 of this title. Study of Cost Accounting RequirementsSecretary prohibited from delaying or withholding or causing any State to delay or withhold payments for reimbursement of per meal costs on the basis of noncompliance with full cost accounting procedure unless and until the Secretary has studied additional personnel and training needs of States, local school districts and schools resulting from imposition of requirement to implement full cost accounting procedures, see section 21 of Pub. L. 94–105, set out as a note under section 1760 of this title.

§1785 Accounts and records; availability for inspection; authority to settle, adjust, or waive claims