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profit and nonprofit groups, and the public through publica-
tions, conferences, and other appropriate forums.
‘‘(B) OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES.—The Secretary may
share information concerning community food projects with
researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties.
‘‘(h) EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide for the
evaluation of the success of community food projects supported
using funds under this section.
‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than January 30, 2002, the Sec-
retary shall submit a report to Congress regarding the results
of the evaluation.’’.
CHAPTER 2—COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS
SEC. 13071. EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 201A of the Emergency Food Assist-
ance Act of 1983 (Public Law 98–8; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 201A. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this Act:
‘‘(1) ADDITIONAL
COMMODITIES.—The term ‘additional
commodities’ means commodities made available under section
214 in addition to the commodities made available under sec-
tions 202 and 203D.
‘‘(2) AVERAGE
MONTHLY
NUMBER
OF
UNEMPLOYED
PER-
SONS.—The term ‘average monthly number of unemployed per-
sons’ means the average monthly number of unemployed per-
sons in each State in the most recent fiscal year for which
information concerning the number of unemployed persons is
available, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the Department of Labor.
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENT AGENCY.—The term ‘eligible recipi-
ent agency’ means a public or nonprofit organization—
‘‘(A) that administers—
‘‘(i) an emergency feeding organization;
‘‘(ii) a charitable institution (including a hospital
and a retirement home, but excluding a penal institu-
tion) to the extent that the institution serves needy
persons;
‘‘(iii) a summer camp for children, or a child nutri-
tion program providing food service;
‘‘(iv) a nutrition project operating under the Older
Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), includ-
ing a project that operates a congregate nutrition site
and a project that provides home-delivered meals; or
‘‘(v) a disaster relief program;
‘‘(B) that has been designated by the appropriate State
agency, or by the Secretary; and
‘‘(C) that has been approved by the Secretary for
participation in the program established under this Act.
‘‘(4) EMERGENCY FEEDING ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘emer-
gency feeding organization’ means a public or nonprofit
organization that administers activities and projects (including
the activities and projects of a charitable institution, a food
bank, a food pantry, a hunger relief center, a soup kitchen,
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or a similar public or private nonprofit eligible recipient agency)
providing nutrition assistance to relieve situations of emergency
and distress through the provision of food to needy persons,
including low-income and unemployed persons.
‘‘(5) FOOD BANK.—The term ‘food bank’ means a public
or charitable institution that maintains an established oper-
ation involving the provision of food or edible commodities,
or the products of food or edible commodities, to food pantries,
soup kitchens, hunger relief centers, or other food or feeding
centers that, as an integral part of their normal activities,
provide meals or food to feed needy persons on a regular basis.
‘‘(6) FOOD PANTRY.—The term ‘food pantry’ means a public
or private nonprofit organization that distributes food to low-
income and unemployed households, including food from sources
other than the Department of Agriculture, to relieve situations
of emergency and distress.
‘‘(7) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘poverty line’ has the same
meaning given the term in section 673(2) of the Community
Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)).
‘‘(8) SOUP KITCHEN.—The term ‘soup kitchen’ means a pub-
lic or charitable institution that, as an integral part of the
normal activities of the institution, maintains an established
feeding operation to provide food to needy homeless persons
on a regular basis.
‘‘(9) TOTAL VALUE OF ADDITIONAL COMMODITIES.—The term
‘total value of additional commodities’ means the actual cost
of all additional commodities made available under section
214 that are paid by the Secretary (including the distribution
and processing costs incurred by the Secretary).
‘‘(10) VALUE OF ADDITIONAL COMMODITIES ALLOCATED TO
EACH STATE.—The term ‘value of additional commodities allo-
cated to each State’ means the actual cost of additional commod-
ities made available under section 214 and allocated to each
State that are paid by the Secretary (including the distribution
and processing costs incurred by the Secretary).’’.
(b) STATE PLAN.—Section 202A of the Act (7 U.S.C. 612c note)
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 202A. STATE PLAN.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—To receive commodities under this Act, a
State shall submit a plan of operation and administration every
4 years to the Secretary for approval. The plan may be amended
at any time, with the approval of the Secretary.
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Each plan shall—
‘‘(1) designate the State agency responsible for distributing
the commodities received under this Act;
‘‘(2) set forth a plan of operation and administration to
expeditiously distribute commodities under this Act;
‘‘(3) set forth the standards of eligibility for recipient agen-
cies; and
‘‘(4) set forth the standards of eligibility for individual
or household recipients of commodities, which shall require—
‘‘(A) individuals or households to be comprised of needy
persons; and
‘‘(B) individual or household members to be residing
in the geographic location served by the distributing agency
at the time of applying for assistance.
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‘‘(c) STATE ADVISORY BOARD.—The Secretary shall encourage
each State receiving commodities under this Act to establish a
State advisory board consisting of representatives of all interested
entities, both public and private, in the distribution of commodities
received under this Act in the State.’’.
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS
FOR ADMINISTRATIVE
FUNDS.—Section 204(a)(1) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is
amended—
(1) in the first sentence—
(A) by striking ‘‘1991 through 1995’’ and inserting
‘‘1996 through 2002’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘for State and local’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘under this title’’ and inserting ‘‘to pay for the
direct and indirect administrative costs of the State related
to the processing, transporting, and distributing to eligible
recipient agencies of commodities provided by the Secretary
under this Act and commodities secured from other
sources’’; and
(2) by striking the fourth sentence.
(d) DELIVERY
OF COMMODITIES.—Section 214 of the Act (7
U.S.C. 612c note) is amended—
(1) by striking subsections (a) through (e) and (j);
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) as sub-
sections (a) through (d), respectively;
(3) in subsection (b), as redesignated by paragraph (2)—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (f)
or subsection (j) if applicable,’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection
(a)’’; and
(B) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection
(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)’’;
(4) by striking subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph
(2), and inserting the following:
‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Commodities made available for each
fiscal year under this section shall be delivered at reasonable
intervals to States based on the grants calculated under sub-
section (a), or reallocated under subsection (b), before December
31 of the following fiscal year.
‘‘(2) ENTITLEMENT.—Each State shall be entitled to receive
the value of additional commodities determined under sub-
section (a).’’; and
(5) in subsection (d), as redesignated by paragraph (2),
by striking ‘‘or reduce’’ and all that follows through ‘‘each
fiscal year’’.
(e) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—The Act (7 U.S.C. 612c note)
is amended—
(1) in the first sentence of section 203B(a), by striking
‘‘203 and 203A of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘203A’’;
(2) in section 204(a), by striking ‘‘title’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘Act’’;
(3) in the first sentence of section 210(e), by striking
‘‘(except as otherwise provided for in section 214(j))’’; and
(4) by striking section 212.
(f) REPORT ON EFAP.—Section 1571 of the Food Security Act
of 1985 (Public Law 99–198; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) is repealed.
(g) AVAILABILITY OF COMMODITIES UNDER THE FOOD STAMP
PROGRAM.—The Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.),
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as amended by section 13058, is further amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 28. AVAILABILITY OF COMMODITIES FOR THE EMERGENCY FOOD
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
‘‘(a) PURCHASE OF COMMODITIES.—From amounts appropriated
under this Act, for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2002, the
Secretary shall purchase $300,000,000 of a variety of nutritious
and useful commodities of the types that the Secretary has the
authority to acquire through the Commodity Credit Corporation
or under section 32 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to amend the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes’, approved
August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), and distribute the commodities
to States for distribution in accordance with section 214 of the
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (Public Law 98–8; 7 U.S.C.
612c note).
‘‘(b) 
BASIS
FOR
COMMODITY
PURCHASES.—In 
purchasing
commodities under subsection (a), the Secretary shall, to the extent
practicable and appropriate, make purchases based on—
‘‘(1) agricultural market conditions;
‘‘(2) preferences and needs of States and distributing agen-
cies; and
‘‘(3) preferences of recipients.’’.
(h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by subsection
(d) shall become effective on October 1, 1996.
Subtitle K—Miscellaneous
SEC. 13101. FOOD STAMP ELIGIBILITY.
Section 6(f) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(f))
is amended by striking the third sentence and inserting the follow-
ing: ‘‘The State agency shall, at its option, consider either all income
and financial resources of the individual rendered ineligible to
participate in the food stamp program under this subsection, or
such income, less a pro rata share, and the financial resources
of the ineligible individual, to determine the eligibility and the
value of the allotment of the household of which such individual
is a member.’’.
SEC. 13102. REDUCTION IN BLOCK GRANTS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES.
Section 2003(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397b)
is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (4); and
(2) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:
‘‘(5) $2,800,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1990 through
1996; and
‘‘(6) $2,240,000,000 for each fiscal year after fiscal year
1996.’’.
Subtitle L—Reform of the Earned Income
Credit
SEC. 13200. AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this sub-
title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amend-