Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 049 - Family Services, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0016 - Food Assistance › Chapter 1 - EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › Section 1-3 - Definition of Terms

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Allocation" -
				Amount of commodity food made available to the site for distribution.
(b) "Authorized Representative" - A person
				acting on behalf of a household, through the household's written statement,
				designating the person to do so.
(c) "Branch Distribution Site" - A designated
				site in which a distribution of commodities is held.
(d) "Branch Site Coordinator" - The person
				designated to be responsible for the USDA donated commodities in a specific
				site.
(e) "Commodity" - Foods
				donated or available for donation by USDA.
(f) "Commodity Agreement" - A written
				document between the site director and Contractor denoting rights and
				responsibilities of Contractor and site directors for the distribution of
				donated USDA food.
(g)
				"Contractor"- The entity selected to provide services that will help supplement
				the diets of low income needy persons and families by providing them with
				emergency food and nutrition assistance at no cost to the household on behalf
				of the State of Wyoming.
(h)
				"Damaged or Unusable Products" - Food products damaged in shipment or during a
				distribution to the extent that the products are potentially hazardous and
				unfit for human consumption.
(i)
				"DFS" - The Wyoming Department of Family Services.
(j) "Distribution Site" - The location where
				the emergency feeding organization actually distributes commodities to needy
				persons.
(k) "Eligible Households"
				- A household with gross monthly income that is equal to or less than 130% of
				the current federal poverty level based on household size.
(l) "Emergency Feeding Organization" - Any
				public or nonprofit private organization which has entered into an agreement
				with Contractor to provide assistance to needy persons and which receive
				commodities under The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
(m) "FNS" - The Food and Nutrition Service of
				the United States Department of Agriculture.
(n) "Federal Education Assistance" - Federal
				funds received by students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act shall not
				be considered income. (The most common grants included in this program are Pell
				Grants, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants and Byrd Honor Scholarships.)
				If there is a question regarding Title IV programs, the student is responsible
				for providing documentation.
(o)
				"Food Bank" - 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 provide meals or food to needy persons on a
				regular basis as an integral part of its normal activities.
(p) "Food Pantry" - A public or private
				non-profit organization that provides food to needy persons.
(q) "Homeless" - An individual who lacks a
				permanent residence.
(r)
				"Households" - A single individual or group of related or unrelated persons
				living together.
(s) "Ineligible
				sites" - The following sites are not eligible for commodities under these
				rules: for profit organizations, boarding homes, nursing homes, jails,
				hospitals and orphanages or other facilities that provide meals as part of
				their service.
(t) "Non Profit" -
				Any organization that has filed for non profit status with the Wyoming
				Secretary of State's office and has obtained or has filed for the Internal
				Revenue Service tax exempt status.
(u) "Out of Condition Product" - A product
				declared unfit for human consumption by federal, state, or local health
				officials, or by other inspection services or persons deemed competent by the
				Contractor.
(v) "Processing" - Any
				change made to the USDA commodity to convert it into a different end product or
				any repackaging of USDA commodities.
(w) "Proxy" - A written and signed statement
				authorizing an individual to pick up food commodities for an eligible
				household.
(x) "Records" -
				Documents maintained by the food distribution site that are available for
				inspection by Contractor upon request.
(y) "State Food Distribution Coordinator" -
				The state employee designated by DFS to administer The Emergency Food
				Assistance Program.
(z) "The
				Emergency Food Assistance Program" (TEFAP) - A federally and state funded
				program designed to distribute USDA donated food commodities in the State of
				Wyoming.
(aa) "Site Director" - The
				agency designated authority authorized to negotiate with Contractor.
(bb) "Storage" - The maintaining of USDA
				commodities for distribution at a later time according to the rules.
(cc) "Soup Kitchen" - A public or charitable
				institution that maintains an established feeding operation to provide food to
				needy homeless persons on a regular basis as an integral part of its normal
				activities.
(dd) "Transient" - A
				person who is traveling through Wyoming with no intent to reside.
(ee) "USDA" - The United States Department of
				Agriculture