7 U.S.C. § 7511a: Emergency food program…

Summary

Creates a grant program that gives money to emergency feeding organizations to help them handle perishable and time‑sensitive food. An "eligible entity" means an emergency feeding organization. The Secretary must use the money provided to make these grants. At least 50 percent of the funds each fiscal year must go to organizations that mainly serve rural communities to expand rural food bank capacity and to improve how they buy, receive, store, track, distribute, and deliver perishable foods. Grants may pay for things like computerized tracking systems; storage, transport, and other infrastructure and operating costs; support for small or mid‑size local farms, fisheries, and donations; moving recovered foods to food banks; finding potential donors, nonprofit providers, and people in need in rural areas; and building, expanding, or repairing facilities or equipment. There is $15,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2023.

Title 7, §7511a

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(a)Definition of eligible entity

In this section, the term “eligible entity” means an emergency feeding organization.

(b)Program authorized

(1)In general

The Secretary shall use funds made available under subsection (d) to make grants to eligible entities to pay the costs of an activity described in subsection (c).

(2)Rural preference

The Secretary shall use not less than 50 percent of the funds described in paragraph (1) for a fiscal year to make grants to eligible entities that serve predominantly rural communities for the purposes of— (A)

(B)improving the capacity of the food banks to procure, receive, store, distribute, track, and deliver time-sensitive or perishable food products.

(c)Use of funds

An eligible entity shall use a grant received under this section for any fiscal year to carry out activities of the eligible entity, including—

(1)the development and maintenance of a computerized system for the tracking of time-sensitive food products;

(2)capital, infrastructure, and operating costs associated with the collection, storage, distribution, and transportation of time-sensitive and perishable food products;

(3)improving the security and diversity of the emergency food distribution and recovery systems of the United States through the support of small or mid-size farms and ranches, fisheries, and aquaculture, and donations from local food producers and manufacturers to persons in need;

(4)providing recovered foods to food banks and similar nonprofit emergency food providers to reduce hunger in the United States;

(5)improving the identification of—

(A)potential providers of donated foods;

(B)potential nonprofit emergency food providers; and

(C)persons in need of emergency food assistance in rural areas; and

(6)constructing, expanding, or repairing a facility or equipment to support hunger relief agencies in the community.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2023.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 209 of Pub. L. 98–8, which related to commodity supplemental food program administrative expenses, was set out in a note under section 612c of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1562(e)(1), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1590.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “2023” for “2018”. 2014—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “2018” for “2012”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title. Section effective Oct. 1, 2008, see section 4407 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2008 Amendment note under section 1161 of Title 2, The Congress.

§7511a Emergency Food Program Infrastructure Grants

Summary

Title 7, §7511a

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