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ERIC Number: ED131174
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 16
Abstractor: N/A
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National School Lunch Act, as Amended (Asterisks Indicate Deletion of Provisions No Longer Effective as of 10-7-75).
Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), Washington, DC.
The Declaration of Purpose of this Act states that it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well being of the nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs. Sections of the Act deal with: appropriations authorized, approtionments to States, nonfood assistance, direct Federal expenditures, payments to States, State disbursement to schools, nutritional and other program requirements, disbursement to schools by the Secretary, special assistance, miscellaneous provisions and definitions, summer food service program for children, commodity distribution program, National Advisory Council, election to receive cash payments, child care food program, nutrition program staff study, appropriations for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and study of cost accounting requirements. (Author/JM)
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Authoring Institution: Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: National School Lunch Act 1970
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Author Affiliations: N/A