PUBLIC LAW 95-627~NOV. 10, 1978
92 STAT. 3613
"(11) 'Pregnant women' means women determined to have one oi- more fetuses in utero. "(12) 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Agriculture. "(13) 'State agency' means the health department or comparable agency of each State; an Indian tribe, band, or group recognized by the Department of the Interior; an intertribal council or group that is the authorized representative of Indian tribes, bands, or groups recognized by the Department of the Interior; or the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(14) 'Supplemental foods' means those foods containing nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children, as prescribed by the Secretary. State agencies may, with the approval of the Secretary, substitute different foods providing the nutritional equivalent of foods prescribed by the Secretary, to allow for different cultural eating patterns. "(c)(1) The Secretary may carry out a special supplemental food program to assist State agencies through grants-in-aid and other means to provide, through local agencies, at no cost, supplemental foods and nutrition education to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children who satisfy the eligibility requirements specified in subsection (d) of this section. The program shall be supplementary to the food stamp program (91 Stat. 958) and to any program under which foods are distributed to needy families in lieu of food stamps. "(2) Subject to the authorization levels specified in subsection (g) of this section for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1979, and September 30, 1980, and subject to amounts appropriated for this program for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1981, and September 30, 1982— "(A) the Secretary shall make cash grants to State agencies for the purpose of administering the program, and "(B) any State agency approved eligible local agency that applies to participate m or expand the program under this section shall immediately be provided with the necessary funds to carry out the program. "(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to permit the Secretary to reduce ratably the amount of foods that an eligible local agency shall distribute under the program to participants. The Secretary shall take affirmative action to ensure that the program is instituted in areas most in need of supplemental foods. The existence of a commodity supplemental food program under section 1304 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 shall not preclude the approval of an application from an eligible local agency to participate in the program under this section nor the operation of such program within the same geographic area as that of the commodity supplemental food program, but the Secretary shall issue such regulations as are necessary to prevent dual receipt of benefits under the commodity supplemental food program and the program under this section. _ "(d)(1) Participation in the program under this section shall be limited to pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children from low-income families who are determined by a competent professional authority to be at nutritional risk.
Regulations, 7 USC 612c note, 1307 note,
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