A bill to amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to States and food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.
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To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to States and food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Mr. CASEY (for himself, Ms. SNOWE, and Mr. VOINOVICH) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to States and food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(1) to encourage States and food assistance agencies to accept commodities acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm support and surplus removal activities; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(2) to offset the costs of the States and food assistance agencies for the intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of the commodities.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(b) Costs of Distributing Bonus Commodities- Section 202 of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7502) is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall use funds made available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide funding described in paragraph (2) to eligible recipient agencies to offset the costs of the agencies for intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of commodities described in subsection (a).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(2) FUNDING- The Secretary shall provide funding described in paragraph (1) to an eligible recipient agency at a rate equal to the lower of $0.05 per pound or $0.05 per dollar value of commodities described in subsection (a) that are made available under this Act to, and accepted by, the eligible recipient agency.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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U.S. Congress - Text of S.194 as Introduced in Senate Bonus TEFAP Assistance Act of 2009
