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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-627—NOV. 10, 1978

92 STAT. 3621

those schools (having a breakfast program or desiring to initiate a breakfast program) in which, during the most recent second preceding school year for which lunches were served, 40 percent or more of the lunches served to students at the school were served free or at a reduced price and in which the rate per meal established by the Secretary is insufficient to cover the costs of the breakfast program.". ALTERNATE FOODS

(d) The Secretary shall not limit or prohibit, during the school year 42 USC 1773 1978-79, the use of formulated grain-fruit products currently note. approved for use in the school breakfast program. The Secretary shall consult experts in child nutrition, industry representatives, and school food service personnel and school administrators (including personnel and administrators in school systems using such products) with respect to the continued use of formulated grain-fruit products in the school breakfast program, and shall also take into account the findings and recommendations in the report on this subject of the General Accounting Office. The Secretary shall not promulgate a final rule Notification. disapproving the use of such products in the school breakfast program beyond the 1978-79 school year until the Secretary has notified the appropriate committees of Congress, and such rule shall not take effect until sixty days after such notification. STATE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

SEC. 7. (a) Section 7(a) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 7. (a)(1) Each fiscal year, the Secretary shall make available to the States for their administrative costs an amount equal to not less than li/^ percent of the Federal funds expended under sections 4,11, and 17 of the National School Lunch Act and 3, 4, and 5 of this Act during the second preceding fiscal year. The Secretary shall allocate the funds so provided in accordance with paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this subsection. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. "(2) The Secretary shall allocate to each State for administrative costs incurred in any fiscal year in connection with the programs authorized under the National School Lunch Act or under this Act, except for the programs authorized under section 13 or 17 of the National School Lunch Act or under section 17 of this Act, an amount equal to not less than 1 percent and not more than 11^ percent of the funds expended by each State under sections 4 and 11 of the National School Lunch Act and sections 3, 4, and 5 of this Act during the second preceding fiscal year. In no case shall the grant available to any State under this subsection be less than the amount such State was allocated in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, or $100,000, whichever is larger. "(3) The Secretary shall allocate to each State for its administrative costs incurred under the program authorized by section 17 of the National School Lunch Act in any fiscal year an amount, based upon

42 USC 1776. 42 USC 1754, 1759a, 1766.

42 USC 1772-1774.

42 USC 1751 note. 42 USC 1761, 1766. Ante, p. 3611.