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Resource | Policy Memos Rural Transportation Grants

This memo announces the selection of five states to receive SFSP Rural Transportation Grants.

12/19/2005
Resource | Policy FNS Instruction 113-1: Civil Rights Compliance and Enforcement

The purpose of this Instruction is to establish and convey policy and provide guidance and direction to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service and its recipients and customers, and ensure compliance with and enforcement of the prohibition against discrimination in all FNS nutrition programs and activities, whether federally funded in whole or not. 

11/08/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Revised – Replacement of Commodities due to Natural Disasters

This memorandum supersedes the Oct. 19, 2005 memorandum on Replacement of Commodities due to Natural Disasters.

10/28/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Q&As Regarding Institution Applications from Training on the Second Interim Rule

This memorandum transmits Attachment 1, which compiles questions and answers on institution application requirements raised during our training on the second interim Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) management improvement rule (69 FR 53501, Sept. 1, 2004).

09/23/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Verification – an Overview - Reauthorization 2004: Implementation Memo

In response to various requests for clarification on verification procedures as mandated in PL 108-265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, we are including as attachments the five documents concerning verification that have been released since the summer of 2004. 

08/30/2005
Resource | Policy Memos July 2005 Procurement Questions

We are continuing to receive questions regarding procurements in the child nutrition programs, particularly in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Attached are the most recently received questions and answers.

07/05/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Transmittal of Guidance on the Simplified Summer Food Program

Attached is guidance for FNS regional offices and state agencies on the Simplified Summer Food Program.

06/29/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Applicability of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Cost Circulars to Fixed Price Contracts

Recently, we received an inquiry on behalf of a food service management company (FSMC). The inquiry asked whether the OMB cost principles were relevant to the food acquisition costs borne by a FSMC charging a school food authority a fixed price per meal for the reimbursable meals and contractually agreed upon meal equivalents served under the contract.

06/07/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Transfer of Data Related to the CACFP and the Food Stamp Program

FNS published an interim rule, “Child and Adult Care Food Program; Improving Management and Program Integrity" that explains a provision in that rule requiring state agencies that administer the CACFP to share information with state agencies that administer the Food Stamp Program

03/29/2005
Resource | Policy Memos Statutory Changes in the Free and Reduced Price Eligibility Determination Process and Revised Prototype Application Implementation Memo

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 amended sections of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act affecting the eligibility determination process for free and reduced price benefits under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program and the Special Milk Program for Children.

03/07/2005
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