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This Act may be cited as the . Food Recovery Act of 2017 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definition of Secretary. TITLE I—Farms Sec. 101. Use of Rural Energy for America Program to reduce food and crop waste. Sec. 102. Farm storage facility loan program. Sec. 103. Composting as conservation practice. Sec. 104. Study and report on methods to decrease incidence of food waste. TITLE II—Retail and restaurants Sec. 201.
Good Samaritan food donation. Sec. 202. Report on food donation by retail food stores. Sec. 203. Use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds to cover Emergency Food Assistance Program storage and distribution costs. TITLE III—Schools and other institutions Sec. 301. Establishment of Food Recovery Liaison. Sec. 302. Amendments to Federal Food Donation Act to require food donations by executive agencies and Congress. Sec. 303. Food and agriculture service learning program. Sec. 304.
Modification of National School Lunch Program procurement requirements to encourage purchase of lower-price, nonstandard-size or -shape produce. Sec. 305. Farm to school grant program to improve access to local foods in schools and reduce food waste. TITLE IV—Food date labeling Sec. 401. Definitions. Sec. 402. Quality dates and safety dates. Sec. 403. Misbranding violation for quality dates and safety dates in food labeling. Sec. 404. Regulations and guidance. Sec. 405. Delayed applicability.
Sec. 406. Report to Congress. TITLE V—Consumers and local infrastructure Sec. 501. Support for national media campaigns to decrease incidence of food waste. Sec. 502. Increase in resources for community facilities loans directed at composting and anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations. Sec. 503. Expansion of rural utilities service water and waste disposal program to provide loans and grants for rural communities to adapt waste disposal facilities to incorporate anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations.
Sec. 504. Grants for food waste management infrastructure. Sec. 505. Government Accountability Office audit.