Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MISCELLANEOUS › Chapter 16-740 - Food assistance programs › Section 16-740-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
"Administrative costs" means management and general expenses,
				  including membership dues that cannot be readily identified with a particular
				  program or direct services.
"Applicant" means a public or private nonprofit organization,
				  tribe or tribal organization who applies for state emergency food
				  assistance.
"Commodity program" means a program that primarily
				  distributes USDA surplus commodities to clients (TEFAP).
"Contractor" means an applicant who has been awarded state
				  funds under the emergency food assistance program, and who has entered into a
				  contract with the department to provide emergency food assistance to
				  individuals.
"Department" means the Washington state department of
				  agriculture.
"Director" means the director of the Washington state
				  department of agriculture or the director's authorized representative.
"Emergency food" means food that is given to clients who do
				  not have the means to acquire that food themselves, so that they will not go
				  hungry.
"Emergency food assistance program" or "EFAP" means the
				  statewide activities of the department to assist local emergency food programs
				  by allocating and awarding state funds.
"Food bank" means an emergency food program that distributes
				  unprepared food without charge to its clients, is open a fixed number of hours
				  and days each week or month, and such hours and days are publicly
				  posted.
"Food distributor" means a food distribution agency that
				  collects, warehouses, and distributes food to emergency food programs and other
				  charities on a county, regional, or statewide basis.
"In-kind" means the value of volunteer services or donated
				  goods such as staff time, rent, food, supplies and transportation.
"Lead agency contractor" means a contractor who may
				  subcontract with one or more local food banks to provide emergency food
				  assistance to individuals, and with food distributors to provide food to food
				  banks.
"Operational expenses" means those costs clearly identifiable
				  with providing direct services to eligible clients, or distribution services to
				  food banks such as staff time, transportation costs, and equipment
				  rental.
"Participating food bank" means a local public or private
				  nonprofit food bank that enters into a subcontract with a lead agency
				  contractor to provide emergency food assistance to individuals.
"Religious service" means any sectarian or nondenominational
				  service, rite, or meeting that involves worship of a higher being.
"Special dietary needs" means funds to purchase food that
				  meets the nutritional needs of a special needs population.
"Tribal food voucher program" means the statewide activities
				  of the department that allocate and award state funds to tribes and tribal
				  organizations that issue food vouchers to clients.
Statutory Authority: 2010 c 68 and
					 chapter
					 34.05 RCW. 10-20-061,
					 § 16-740-030, filed 9/27/10, effective
					 10/28/10.