Sec. 602. Establishment of Office of Food Waste
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Subtitle D of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 ( 7 U.S.C. 6951 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary shall establish within the executive operations of the Department an office to be known as the Office of Food Waste . The Office of Food Waste shall be responsible— for coordinating Federal programs to measure and reduce the incidence of food waste in the United States by serving as the central office within the Department for food waste reduction efforts, including food waste prevention, food donation, recovery of surplus food for commercial purposes, and food scrap recycling; for providing information about and raising awareness of food waste issues across sectors of the United States economy and across Federal agencies; and for serving as the primary point of contact for food waste reduction and food recovery issues within the Department and across Federal agencies.
Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this section $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2019 through 2023. .
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