An Act to amend the National School Lunch Act, as amended, to assure that adequate funds are available for the conduct of summer food service programs for children from areas in which poor economic conditions exist and from areas in which there are high concentrations of working mothers, and for other purposes related to expanding and strengthening the child nutrition programs
PL 92-433 (H.R.14896), enacted 09/26/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-433-SEPT. 26, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
September 26, 1972 
[H. R.14896] 
Public Law 92-433 
AN ACT 
To amend the National School Lunch Act, as amended, to assure that adequate 
funds are available for the conduct of summer food service programs for 
children from areas in which poor economic conditions exist and from areas 
in which there are high concentrations of working mothers, and for other 
purposes related to expanding and strengthening the child nutrition programs. 
Child nutrition 
programs. 
Continuation 
and expansion. 
82 Stat. 117; 
85 Stat. 86. 
Summer program. 
49 Stat. 774. 
Grants-in-aid. 
85 Stat. 86. 
School break-
fast program, 
appropriation. 
85 Stat. 85. 
80 Stat. 886. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhted, That section 13 of the 
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761) is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following: 
"(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Agriculture is authorized to utilize, during the period May 15 to 
September 15, 1972, not to exceed $25,000,000 from funds available 
during the fiscal years 1972 and 1973 under section 32 of the Act of 
August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), to carry out the purposes of this 
section. Funds expended under the provisions of this paragraph 
shall be reimbursed out of any supplemental appropriation hereafter 
enacted for the purpose of carrymg out section 13 of the National 
School Lunch Act, and such reimbursements shall be deposited into 
the fund established pursuant to section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
1935, to be available for the purposes of said section 32. Funds made 
available under this subsection shall be in addition to direct appro-
priations or other funds available for the conduct of summer food 
service programs for children." 
SEC. 2. (a) The first sentence of section 13(a) (1) of the National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761(a)(1)), as amended, is amended 
to read as follows: "There is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as are necessary for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 
1973, June 30, 1974, and June 30, 1975, to enable the Secretary to 
formulate and carry out a program to assist States through grants-
in-aid and other means, to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit food 
service programs for children in service institutions." 
(b) Section 13(a) (2) of such Act is amended by inserting a new 
sentence at the end thereof as follows: "To the maximum extent 
feasible, consistent with the purposes of this section, special summer 
programs shall utilize the existing food service facilities of public and 
nonprofit private schools." 
SEC. 3. (a) The first sentence of section 4(a) of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773 (a)) is amended to read as follows: "There 
is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary for 
the fiscal years ending June 30,1973, June 30,1974, and June 30,1975, 
to enable the Secretary to carry out a program to assist the States 
through grants-in-aid and other means to initiate, maintain, or 
expand nonprofit breakfast programs in all schools which make appli-
cation for assistance and agree to carry out a nonprofit breakfast 
program in accordance with this Act." 
(b) Section 4(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1773 (b)) is amended to read as follows: 
"APPORTIONMENT TO STATES 
" (b) Of the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section, the 
Secretary shall for the fiscal year ending June 30,1973, (1) apportion 
$2,600,000 equally among the States other than Guam, the Virgin 
Islands, and American Samoa, and $45,000 equally among Guam, the 
Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and (2) apportion the remain-
der among the States in accordance with the apportionment formula 
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contained in section 4 of the Xational School Lunch Act, as amended. 
^°*'' P- '^'^^• 
For each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1974, the Secretarv shall make breakfast assistance payments, at such 
times as he may determine, from the sums appropriated therefor, to 
each State educational agency, in a total amount equal to the result 
obtained by (1) multiplying the number of breakfasts (consisting of a 
combination of foods which meet the minimum nutritional require-
ments prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (e) of this 
section) served during such fiscal year to children in schools in such 
States which participate in the breakfast program under this section 
under agreements with such State educational agency by a national 
average breakfast payment prescribed by the Secretary for such fiscal 
year to carry out the purposes of this section; (2) multiplying the 
number of such breakfasts served free to children eligible for free 
breakfasts in such schools during such fiscal year by a national average 
free breakfast payment prescribed by the Secretary for such fiscal 
year to carry out the purposes of this section; and (3) multiplying 
the number of reduced price breakfasts served to children eligible for 
reduced price breakfasts in such schools during such fiscal year by a 
national average reduced price breakfast payment prescribed by the 
Secretary for such fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this section: 
'-•'' 
Provided^ That in any fiscal year the aggregate amount of the break-
fast assistance payments made by the Secretary to each State educa-
tional agency for any fiscal year shall not be less than the amount of 
the payments made by the State educational agency to participating 
schools within the State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, to 
carry out the purposes of this section." 
(c) Section 4(c) pf the Child Nutrition Act (42 U.S.C. 1773(c)) ^enftoIctooT." 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: 
so stat. 886; 
"Breakfast assistance disbursements to schools under this section may *^ ^*^*- ^^• 
be made in advance or by way of reimbursement in accordance with 
.... 
procedures prescribed by the Secretary." 
(d) Section 4(e) of the Child Nutrition Act of 19B(> (42 T^'.S.C. 
1773 (e)) is amended to read as follows: 
"NUTRITIONAL 
AND 
OTHER 
PROGRAM 
REQT^IREMENTS 
( 
" (e) Breakfasts served by schools participating in the school break-
fast program under this section shall consist of a combination of foods 
and shall meet minimum nutritional requirements prescribed by the 
Secretary on the basis of tested nutritional research. Such breakfasts 
shall be served free or at a reduced price to children in school under 
the same terms and conditions as are set forth with respect to the sen'-
ice of lunches free or at a reduced price in section 9 of the National 
S c h o o l L u n c h A c t . " 
Post, 
p. 726. 
(e) Section 4(f) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 TLS.C. 
Nonprofit pn-
1773 (f)) is amended to read as follows: 
^^H lt°°^^^i. 
"(f) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, any withholdinjr of 
funds for and disbursement to nonprofit private schools shall be 
effected in the manner used prior to such fiscal year. Beginning with 
the fiscal year ending June 30,1974, the Secretary shall make payments 
from the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for the purposes of 
this section directly to the nonprofit private schools within a State, that 
participate in the breakfast program under an agreement with the 
Secretary, for the same purposes and subject to \h!^ same conditions 
as are authorized or required under this section with respect to the 
disbursements by State educational agencies." 
SEC. 4. (a) Notwithstanding any other ])rovision of law, the Seciv-
tai'v of Agriculture shall until such time as a supplemental ai)])r(>-
Reimbursement 
rate. 
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[86 
STAT. 
49 Stat. 774. 
Infra. 
Apportionment 
to States. 
76 Stat. 944. 
42 u s e 1753. 
84 Stat. 208. 
42 u s e 1752. 
60 Stat. 231. 
42 u s e 1754. 
Infra. 
Nonprofit pri-
vate schools, 
disbursement. 
60 Stat. 233; 
84 Stat. 208. 
Program require-
ments. 
60 Stat. 233; 
82 Stat. 117. 
42 u s e 1758. 
84 Stat. 210; 
85 Stat. 420. 
priation may provide additional funds for sucli purpose use so much 
of the funds appropriated by section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
1935 (7 U.S.C. 612(c)), as may be necessary, in addition to the funds 
available therefor, to carry out the purposes of section 4 of the 
National School Lunch Act and provide an average rate of reimburse-
ment of not less than 8 cents per meal within each State during the 
fiscal year 1973. Funds expended under the foregoing provisions of 
this section shall be reimbursed out of any supplemental appropria-
tion hereafter enacted for the purpose of carrying out section 4 of 
the National School Lunch Act, and such reimbursements shall be 
deposited into the fund established pursuant to section 32 of the Act 
of August 24,1935, to be available for the purposes of said section 32. 
(b) Funds made available pursuant to this section shall be appor-
tioned to the States in such manner as will best enable schools to meet 
their obligations with respect to the service of free and reduced-price 
lunches and to meet the objective of this section with respect to provid-
ing a minimum rate of reimbursement under section 4 of the National 
School Lunch Act, and such funds shall be apportioned and paid 
as expeditiously as may be practicable. 
(c) Section 4 of the National School Lunch Act is amended effective 
after the fiscal year ending June 30,1973, to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. The sums appropriated for any fiscal year pursuant to the 
authorizations contained in section 3 of this Act, excluding the sum 
specified in section 5, shall be available to the Secretary for supplying 
agricultural commodities and other food for the program in accord-
ance with the provisions of this Act. For each fiscal year the Secretary 
shall make food assistance payments, at such times as he may deter-
mine, from the sums appropriated therefor, to each State educational 
agency, in a total amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying 
the number of lunches (consisting of a combination of foods which 
meet the minimum nutritional requirements prescribed by the Secre-
tary under subsection 9(a) of this Act) served during such fiscal year to 
children in schools in such State, which participate m the school lunch 
program under this Act under agreements with such State educational 
agency, by a national average payment per lunch for such fiscal year 
determined by the Secretary to be necessary to carry out the purposes 
of this Act: Provided, That in any fiscal year such national average 
payment shall not be less than 8 cents per lunch and that the aggregate 
amount of the food assistance payments made by the Secretary to 
each State educational agency for any fiscal year shall not be less than 
the amount of the payments made by the State agency to participating 
schools within the State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, to 
carry out the purposes of this section 4." 
(d) Section 10 of the National School Lunch Act of 1946 (42 U.S.C. 
1759) is amended by striking "section 7." at the end thereof and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following: "section 7: Provided, 
Tliat 
beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30,1974, the Secretary shall 
make payments from the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for the 
purposes of section 4 of this Act directly to the nonprofit private 
schools in such State for the same purposes and subject to the same 
conditions as are authorized or required under this Act with respect 
to the disbursements by the State educational agencies." 
SEC. 5. (a) The first sentence of section 9 of the National School 
Lunch Act is designated as subsection (a) of that section. 
(b) The second through the seventh sentences of section 9 of the 
National School Lunch Act shall be designated as subsection (b) of 
that section and are amended to read as follows: 
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727 
"(b) The Secretary, not Jater than May 15 of each fiscal year, 
shall prescribe an income poverty guideline setting forth income levels 
by family size for use in the subsequent fiscal year, and such guideline 
shall not subsequently be reduced to be effective in such subsequent 
fiscal year. Any child who is a member of a household which has an 
annual income not above the applicable family-size income level set 
forth in the income poverty guideline prescribed by the Secretary shall 
be served a free lunch. Following the announcement by the Secretary 
of the income poverty guideline for each fiscal year, each State educa-
tional agency shall prescribe the income guidelines, by family size, to 
be used by schools in the State during such fiscal year in making-
determinations of those children eligible for a free lunch. The income 
guidelines for free lunches to be prescribed by each State educational 
agency shall not be less than the applicable family-size income levels 
in the income poverty guideline prescribed by the Secretary and 
shall not be more than 25 per centum above such family-size income 
levels. Each fiscal year, each State educational agency shall also 
prescribe income guidelines, by family size, to be used by schools in 
the State during such fiscal year in making determinations of those 
children eligible for a lunch at a reduced price, not to exceed 20 cents, 
if a school elects to serve reduced-price lunches. Such income guide-
lines for reduced-price lunches shall be prescribed at not more than 
50 per centum above the applicable family-size income levels in the 
income poverty guideline prescribed by the Secretary, except that any 
local school authority having income guidelines for free or reduced 
price lunches which exceed those allowed by this subsection may con-
tinue to use such guidelines for determining eligibility until July 1, 
1973, if such guidelines were established prior to July 1, 1972. Local 
school authorities shall publicly announce such income guidelines 
on or about the opening of school each fiscal year and shall make 
determinations with respect to the annual incomes of any household 
solely on the basis of a statement executed in such form as the Secretary 
may prescribe by an adult member of such household. No physical 
segregation of or other discrimination against any child eligible for a 
free lunch or a reduced-price lunch shall be made by the school nor 
shall there be any overt identification of any such child by special 
tokens or tickets, announced or published lists of names, or by other 
means." 
(c) The eighth through the thirteenth sentences of section 9 of 
the National School Lunch Act shall be designated as subsection (c) 
of that section and the last sentence of such subsection shall be 
amended by deleting the phrase "under the provisions of section 10 
until such time as the Secretary" and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following phrase "under this Act until such time as the State educa-
tional agency, or in the case of such schools which participate imder 
the provisions of section 10 of this Act the Secretary". 
SEC. 6. (a) The first sentence of section 5(a) of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966, as amended by section 2 of Public Law 91-248, is amended 
by deleting the phrase "for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1973, not 
to exceed $15,000,000 and for each succeeding fiscal year, not to exceed 
$10,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the following phrase: "for 
each of the three fiscal years ending June 30, 1973, June 30, 1974, and 
June 30, 1975, not to exceed $40,000,000 and for each succeeding fiscal 
year, not to exceed $20,000,000". 
(b) Section 5(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 TJ.S.C. 
1774(b)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) Except for the funds reserved under subsection (e) of this 
section, the Secretary shall apportion the funds appropriated for the 
Income poverty 
guideline. 
Discrimination 
prohibition. 
Ante, p. 726. 
Appropriation.. 
84 Stat. 208. 
42 u s e 1774. 
Apportionment 
to States. 
82-081 O - 73 - 49 
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[86 STAT. 
purposes of this section among the States on the basis of the ratio 
that the number of lunches (consisting of a combination of foods which 
meet the minimum nutritional requirements prescribed by the Secre-
Ante, p. 726. 
fary pursuant to section 9 of the National School Lunch Act) served 
in each State in the latest preceding fiscal year for which the Secre-
tary determines data are available at the time such funds are appor-
tioned bears to the total number of such lunches served in all States 
in such preceding fiscal year. If any State cannot utilize all of the 
funds apportioned to it under the jprovisions of this subsection, the 
Secretary shall make further apportionments to the remaining States 
in the manner set forth in this subsection for apportioning funds 
among all the States. Payments to any State of funds apportioned 
imder the provisions of this subsection for any fiscal year shall be made 
upon condition that at least one-fourth of the cost of equipment 
financed under this subsection shall be borne by funds from sources 
within the State." 
va^eTc'hoois"."" 
(^) Sectiou 5(d) of the Child Nutrition Act of 196« (42 U.S.C. 
80 Stat. 887. 
1774(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(d) If, in any State, the State educational agency is prohibited by 
law from administering the program authorized by this section in 
nonprofit private schools within the State, the Secretary shall admin-
ister such program in such private schools. In such event, the 
Secretary shall withhold from the funds apportioned to any such 
State under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section an amount 
which bears the same ratio to such funds as the number of lunches 
(consisting of a combination of foods which meet the minimum 
nutritional requirements prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to 
Ante, p. 726. 
sectiou 9(a) of the National School Lunch Act) served in nonprofit 
private schools in such State in the latest preceding fiscal year for 
which the Secretary determines data are available at the time such 
funds are withheld bears to the total number of such lunches served 
in all schools within such State in such preceding fiscal year." 
Supra. 
((j^ Section 5 of the Child Nutrition Act (42 t^.S.C. 1774) is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"RESERVE OF FUNDS 
"(e) In each of the fiscal years ending June 30. 1978. June HO, 1974. 
and June 30, 1975, 50 per centum of the funds appropriated for the 
purposes of this section shall be reserved by the Secretary to assist 
schools without a food service. The Secretary shall apportion the funds 
so reserved among the States on the basis of the ratio of the number 
of children enrolled in schools without a food service in the State for 
the latest fiscal year for which the Secretary determines data are 
available at the time such funds are apportioned to the total number 
of children enrolled in schools without a food service in all States in 
such fiscal year. In those States in which the Secretary administers 
the nonfood assistance pi-ogram in nonprofit private schools, the Sec-
retary shall withhold from the funds apportioned to any such State 
under this subsection an amount which bears the same ratio to such 
funds as the number of children enrolled in nonprofit private schools 
without a food service in such State for the latest fiscal year for which 
the Secretary determines data are available at the time such funds are 
withheld bears to the total number of children enrolled in all schools 
without food service in such State in such fiscal year. The funds 
reserved, apportioned, and withheld under the authority of this sub-
section shall be used by State educational agencies, or the Secretary 
in the case of nonprofit private schools, only to assist schools without 
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a food service. If any State cannot utilize all the funds apportioned 
to it under the provisions of this subsection to assist schools in the State 
without a food service, the Secretary shall make further apportion-
ments to the remaining States in the same manner set forth in this sub-
section for apportioning funds among all the States and such 
remaining States, or the Secretary in the case of nonprofit private 
schools, shall use the additional funds so apportioned or withheld only 
to assist schools in the State without a food service. Payments to any 
State of the funds apportioned under the provisions of this paragraph 
shall be made upon condition that at least one-fourth of the cost of 
equipment financed shall be borne by funds from sources within the 
State, except that such condition shall not apply with respect to funds 
used under this section to assist schools without food service if such 
schools are especially needy, as determined by the State." 
(e) To assist the Congress in determining the amounts needed 
annually, the Secretary is directed to conduct a survey among the 
States and school districts on unmet needs for equipment in scnools 
eligible for assistance under section 5 of the Child Nutrition Act. The 
results of such survey shall be reported to the Congress by June 30, 
1973. 
SEC. 7. After the first sentence of section 10 of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1779) add the following new sentence: "Such 
regulations shall not prohibit the sale of competitive foods in food 
service facilities or areas during the time of service of food under 
this Act or the National School Lunch Act if the proceeds from the 
sales of such foods will inure to the benefit of the schools or of 
organizations of students approved by the schools." 
SEC. 8. Section 8 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1757) is amended by deleting the phrase "reimbursing it for" in the 
second sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"assisting it to finance" and by adding at the end of such section the 
following sentence: "Lunch assistance disbursements to schools under 
this section and under section 11 of this Act may be made in advance 
or by way of reimbursement in accordance with procedures prescribed 
by the Secretary." 
SEC. 9. The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 is further amended by 
adding at the end thereof a new section as follows: 
Equipment 
survey. 
Ante, pp. 727, 
728. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Regulations. 
80 Stat. 889; 
84 Stat. 212. 
60 Stat. 230; 
85 Stat. 85. 
42 u s e 1751 
note. 
60 Stat. 232. 
84 Stat. 211 . 
42 u s e 175 9a. 
80 Stat. 885. 
42 u s e 1771 
note. 
U SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM 
"SEC, 17. (a) During each of the fiscal years ending June 30,1973, 
and June 30,1974, the Secretary shall make cash grants to the health 
department or comparable agency of each State for the purpose of 
providing funds to local health or welfare agencies or private non-
profit agencies of such State serving local health or welfare needs to 
enable such agencies to carry out a program under which supplemental 
foods will be made available to pregnant or lactating women and to 
infants determined by competent professionals to be nutritional risks 
because of inadequate nutrition and inadequate income. Such program 
shall be operated for a two-year period and may be carried out in any 
area of the United States without regard to whether a food stamp pro-
gram or a direct food distribution program is in effect in such area. 
"(b) In order to carry out the program provided for under sub-
section (a) of this section during the fiscal year ending June 30,1973, 
the Secretary shall use $20,000,000 out of funds appropriated by sec-
tion 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612(c)). In order to 
carry out such program during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, 
there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $20,000,000, but in 
49 Stat. 774. 
Appropriation.. 
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[86 STAT. 
49 Stat. 774. 
Administrative 
costs, limitation. 
Eligibility. 
Medical records. 
Reports to 
Congress. 
Definitions. 
the event, that such smii has not been appropriated for such purpose by 
August 1,1973, the Secretary shall use $20,000,000, or, if any amount 
has been appropriated for such program, the difference, if any, between 
the amount directly appropriated for such purpose and $20,000,000, 
out of funds appropriated by section 32 of the Act of August 24,1935 
(7 U.S.C. 612(^c)). Any funds expended from such section 32 to carry 
out the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be reimbursed 
out of any supplemental appropriation hereafter enacted for the pur-
pose of carrying out the provisions of such subsection, and such re-
imbursements shall be deposited into the fund established pursuant to 
such section 32, to be available for the purpose of such section. 
"(c) Whenever any program is carried out by the Secretary under 
authority of this section through any State or local or nonprofit 
agency, he is authorized to pay administrative costs not to exceed 
10 per centum of the Federal funds provided under the authority of 
this section. 
"'(d) The eligibility of persons to participate in the program pro-
vided for under subsection (a) of tliis section shall be determined 
by competent professional authority. Participants shall be residents 
of areas served by clinics or other health facilities determined to have 
significant numbers of infants and pregnant and lactating women at 
Jiutritional risk. 
"(e) State or local agencies or groups carrying out any program 
under this section shall maintain adequate medical records on the 
participants assisted to enable the Secretary to determine and evaluate 
the benefits of the nutritional assistance provided under this section. 
The Secretary and Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit preliminary evaluation reports to the Congress not later than 
October 1, 1973; and not later than March 30, 1974, submit reports 
containing an evaluation of the program provided under this section 
and making recommendations with regard to its continuation. 
"(f) As used in this section— 
"(1) 'Pregnant and lactating women' when used in connection 
with the term at 'nutrition risk' includes mothers from low-income 
populations who demonstrate one or more of the following charac-
teristics: known inadequate nutritional patterns, unacceptably 
high incidence of anemia, high prematurity rates, or inadequate 
patterns of growth (underweight, obesity, or stunting). Such term 
(when used in connection with the term 'at nutritional risk') also 
includes low-income individuals who have a history of high-risk 
l)regnancy as evidenced by abortion, premature birth, or severe 
anemia. 
"(2) 'Infants' when used in connection with the term 'at 
nutritional risk' means children under four years of age who are 
in low-income populations which have shown a deficient pattern 
of growth, by minimally acceptable standards, as reflected by an 
excess number of children in the lower percentiles of height and 
weight. Such term, when used in connection with 'at nutritional 
risk', may also include (at the discretion of the Secretary) chil-
dren under four years of age who (A) are in the parameter of 
nutritional anemia, or (B) are from low-income populations 
where nutritional studies have shown inadequate infant diets. 
"(3) 'Supplemental foods' shall mean those foods containing 
nutrients known to be lacking in the diets of populations at 
nutritional risks and, in particular, those foods and food products 
containing high-quality pi'otein, iron, calcium, vitamin A, and 
A-itamin C. Such term may also include (at i]w discretion of the 
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731 
Secretary) any food product commercially formulated preparn-
tion specifically designed for infants. 
•'(4) 'Competent professional authority' includes physicians, 
nutritionists, registered nurses, dieticians, or State or local medi-
cally trained health officials, or persons desi^ated by physicians 
or State or local medically trained health officials as being com-
petent professionally to evaluate nutritional risk." 
SEC. 10. Section 7 of the National School Lunch Act (42 LT.S.C-
1756) is amended by inserting the words "for the preceding fiscal yeai-" 
after the phrase "per centum of the matching requirement" each time 
such phrase appears in sucli section. 
Approved September 26, 1972. 
60 Stat. 232; 
84 Stat. 209. 
Public Law 92-434 
AN ACT 
To give the consent of Congress to the construction of certain international 
bridges, and for other purposes. 
September 26, 1972 
[H. R.15577: 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assem^hled^ That this Act may be 
cited as the "International Bridge Act of 1972". 
SEC. 2. The consent of Congress is hereby granted to the construction, 
maintenance, and operation of any bridge and approaches thereto, 
which will connect the United States with any foreign country (here-
inafter in this Act referred to as an "international bridge") and to 
the collection of tolls for its use, so far as the United States has juris-
diction. Such consent shall be subject to (1) the approval of the proper 
authorities in the foreign country concerned; (2) the provisions of 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over 
navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906 (33 U.S.C. 491-498), 
except section 6 (33 U.S.C. 496), whether or not such bridge is to be 
built across or over any of the navigable waters of the T^nited States: 
and (3) the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. The consent of Congress is hereby granted for a State or a 
subdivision or instrumentality thereof to enter into agreements— 
(1) with the Government of Canada, a Canadian Province, 
or a subdivision or instrumentality of either, in the case of a 
bridge connecting the United States and Canada, or 
(2) with the Government of Mexico, a Mexican State, or a 
subdivision or instrumentality of either, in the case of a bridge 
connecting the United States and Mexico, 
for the construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge in 
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Act. The effective-
ness of such agreement shall be conditioned on its approval by tlio 
Secretary of State. 
SEC. 4. No bridge may be constructed, maintained, and operated 
as provided in section 2 unless the President has given his approval 
thereto. In the course of determining whether to grant svtch approval, 
the President shall secure the advice and recommendations of (1) 
the United States section of the International Boundary and Water 
International 
Bridge Act of 
1972. 
Bridge con-
struction, consent 
of Congress. 
34 Stat. 84. 
Agreements v/ith 
Canada and Mex-
ico, consent of 
Congress. 
Secretary of 
State, approval. 
Presidential 
approval.