Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part VII - Bureau of Government Donated Food › Chapter 160 - STATE FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM › Section 160.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Act
-The State Food Purchase Program Act
				  (62
				  P. S. §
										§
										4041-4049).
Administrative and incidental costs
-Costs
				  which are authorized by the act and which are necessary to the operation of the
				  Program, but are not food purchase costs. The term includes costs of
				  transporting, storing, distributing, processing and repackaging food for
				  Program participants.
Advisory Committee
-The Emergency Food
				  Assistance Advisory Committee established under section 6 of the act
				  (62
				  P. S. §
										4046).
County government
-The county which contracts
				  with the Department to administer the Program.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture of
				  the Commonwealth.
Emergency food provider
-A nonprofit
				  organization which operates a food pantry, soup kitchen, food bank or other
				  program to relieve hunger, undernutrition and food shortages among needy
				  individuals and families, homeless people and victims of domestic
				  violence.
Fiscal year
-The period from July 1 of a
				  particular year through June 30 of the succeeding calendar year.
Food purchase costs
-Costs which are
				  authorized by the act and which are incurred by a county government, a lead
				  agency or an emergency food provider administering the Program within a
				  particular county when it expends grant funds to obtain ownership of food. The
				  term includes expenditures of grant funds to obtain ownership of food in
				  transactions which qualify as exceptions to the restrictions on the transfer of
				  contributed property under 26 CFR 1.170 A- 4A(b)(3)(ii)
				  (relating to special rule for the deduction of certain charitable contributions
				  of inventory and other property) such as transactions where the subject food
				  had been donated to the vendor-such as a regional food bank or other entity-and
				  where the purchase price for that donated food is a fee charged by the vendor
				  for its storage, handling or other administrative costs.
Grant agreement
-The written contract
				  defining the rights and responsibilities of the Department and a county
				  government or other entity, or both, that agrees to administer the Program in a
				  particular county and expend the grant funds allocated to that county in
				  accordance with the act and this chapter.
Grant funds
-A sum of money that is the
				  subject of a grant agreement which is to be used for purposes consistent with
				  the act.
Lead agency
-The emergency food provider or
				  regional food bank designated by the county to participate in the Program on
				  its behalf.
Program
-The State Food Purchase
				  Program.
Program participant
-An individual or
				  household that is in need of food assistance to supplement the diet of
				  economically depressed persons to prevent hunger or undernutrition and that
				  meets Program eligibility requirements as described in §
									160.5 (relating to eligibility of
				  persons to participate).
Regional food bank
-A nonprofit charitable
				  organization qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
				  1986 ( 26 U.S.C.A. §
										501(c)(3) ) which maintains
				  an established operation involving the provision of food to nonprofit food
				  pantries, soup kitchens, shelters or feeding centers that provide food packages
				  or meals to people in need of food assistance. A regional food bank is an
				  emergency food provider.
Secretary
-The Secretary of the
				  Department.
USDA
-The United States Department of
				  Agriculture.
USDA commodity programs
-The food which is
				  available through programs administered by the USDA.