As farmers market season kicks off, we celebrate farmers markets for supporting Secretary Brooke Rollins’ priorities to connect American farmers to our nutrition assistance programs.
We regularly collect information about the school meal programs and how they operate from the people who know best – the state agencies that oversee the programs in each state and territory and the school food authorities that manage the programs locally in one or more schools.
This is a revision to a currently approved collection to prevent a lapse in OMB approval of data collection. This collection allows for Food Distribution Programs, such as the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), to run effectively.
This is a reinstatement, with change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired.
This memorandum seeks to ensure that current Food and Nutrition Service guidance pertaining to federal civil rights and nondiscrimination obligations remains aligned with applicable laws, regulations, executive orders and directives relevant to the agency’s 16 nutrition assistance programs.
The information reporting and recordkeeping requirements are necessary to ensure appropriate and efficient management of both programs.
The primary objective of this Handbook is to help state agencies navigate FNS requirements to secure approval, and get the requested funding, for modern eligibility systems and EBT benefit delivery services.
Food distribution program data.
The following message contains important information about two commercial recalls that may affect schools. These recalls do not involve USDA Foods.
This is a new information collection for the Waivers and State Plans (WiSP) application.