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7 U.S. Code § 7511a. Emergency food program infrastructure grants
(a) Definition of eligible entity
In this section, the term “eligible entity” means an emergency feeding organization.
(b) Program authorized
(1) In general
The Secretary shall use funds made available under subsection (d) to make grants to eligible entities to pay the costs of an activity described in subsection (c).
(2) Rural preferenceThe Secretary shall use not less than 50 percent of the funds described in paragraph (1) for a fiscal year to make grants to eligible entities that serve predominantly rural communities for the purposes of—
(A)
expanding the capacity and infrastructure of food banks, State-wide food bank associations, and food bank collaboratives that operate in rural areas; and
(B)
improving the capacity of the food banks to procure, receive, store, distribute, track, and deliver time-sensitive or perishable food products.