Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title VII - Food Programs › Chapter 66 - Emergency Food Assistance Program › Rule 441-66.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Bonus items"
means USDA-donated commodities
				  that are so designated by USDA, are offered by USDA to the states as a one-time
				  offer, and are not charged or credited against a state's entitlement.
"Charitable institution"
means a facility
				  that is public or private, nonprofit, and tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue
				  Code as documented by a letter of exemption; is not a penal institution
				  (including a correctional institution that conducts rehabilitation programs);
				  and provides food assistance to needy persons.
"Commodities"
means foods donated or
				  available for donation by the USDA.
"Contract"
means a formal, written agreement
				  between the department and an eligible recipient agency regarding receiving,
				  storing, handling, and distributing commodities.
"Contractor"
means an eligible recipient
				  agency that has entered into a contract with the department regarding storing,
				  handling, and distributing commodities.
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				  human services.
"Distribution site"
means a location where
				  an eligible recipient agency actually distributes commodities to needy persons
				  for home consumption or serves prepared meals to needy persons.
"Eligible recipient agency"
means a
				  charitable institution that has entered into a contract with the department for
				  the receipt of commodities or administrative funds or has entered into an
				  agreement with another eligible recipient agency that has signed such a
				  contract with the department. Eligible recipient agencies may include food
				  banks, food pantries, soup kitchens, hunger relief centers, hospitals,
				  retirement homes, Nutrition Services Incentive Programs that operate congregate
				  meals sites or provide home-delivered meals (to the extent that they serve
				  predominately needy persons), summer camps for children or child nutrition
				  programs providing food service, and disaster relief programs. An eligible
				  recipient agency shall meet federal requirements as described at
				  7 CFR
				  251.3(d) and 7 CFR 251.5(a),
				  as amended to May 2, 2022.
"Emergency feeding organization"
means an
				  eligible recipient agency that provides nutrition assistance to relieve
				  situations of emergency and distress through the provision of food to needy
				  persons, including low-income and unemployed persons, under an agreement with
				  the department. Emergency feeding organizations can include food banks, food
				  pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, and hunger relief centers.
"FNS"
means the Food and Nutrition Service,
				  a division of the USDA that administers food assistance programs.
"Food bank"
means a public or charitable
				  institution that maintains an established operation involving the provision of
				  food or edible commodities or the products thereof 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 needy
				  persons on a regular basis.
"Food distribution program"
means the office
				  in the department's division of financial, food, and work supports that is
				  responsible for administering the FNS food distribution programs.
"Food pantry"
means a public or private
				  nonprofit organization that distributes food to low-income and unemployed
				  households to relieve situations of emergency and distress.
"Household"
means a single individual living
				  alone or a group of related or nonrelated individuals who live together, who
				  are not boarders or residents of an institution, and who purchase and prepare
				  food for home consumption.
"Program manager"
means a department
				  employee who is assigned to fulfill department responsibilities for management
				  of the USDA FNS food distribution programs.
"Soup kitchen"
means a public or charitable
				  institution that provides prepared food to needy homeless persons on a regular
				  basis as a part of its normal activities.
"Subcontract"
means a contract between a
				  contractor, as defined in this chapter, and another eligible recipient
				  agency.
"Subcontractor"
means an eligible recipient
				  agency that has entered into a subcontract with a contractor, as defined in
				  this chapter.
"Subsidiary distributing organization"
means
				  an eligible recipient agency that holds a contract with the department and is
				  also under subcontract with another eligible recipient agency for the
				  distribution of federal commodities.
"TEFAP"
means The Emergency Food Assistance
				  Program as authorized by the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 as amended
				  through
				  Public
				  Law 107-249, enacted October 23, 2002.
"USDA"
means the United States Department of
				  Agriculture.