Sec. 4205. Emergency food assistance for Indian tribes
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Section 201A of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 ( 7 U.S.C. 7501 ) is amended— in paragraph (3)(A)— in clause (iv), by striking or at the end; in clause (v), by adding or at the end; and by adding at the end the following: a Tribal organization, including any Tribal organization participating in the food distribution program on Indian reservations under section 4(b) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2013(b) ); ; by redesignating paragraph
(10)as paragraph (11); and by inserting after paragraph
(9)the following: The term Tribal organization has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012 ). . The Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 is amended by inserting after section 202A ( 7 U.S.C. 7503 ) the following: To receive commodities under this Act, a Tribal organization shall submit to the Secretary an operation and administration plan for the provision of benefits under this Act. A Tribal organization shall submit to the Secretary for approval any amendment to a plan submitted under paragraph
(1)in any case in which the Tribal organization proposes to make a change to the operation or administration of a program described in the plan. Each plan submitted under subsection
(a)shall— designate the Tribal entity responsible for distributing the commodities received under this Act; set forth a plan of operation and administration to expeditiously distribute commodities under this Act, which may include the use of warehouses and facilities used to store food under the program established under section 4(b) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2013(b) ); set forth the standards of eligibility for recipient agencies; and set forth the standards of eligibility for individual or household recipients of commodities, which shall require— individuals that are, or households to be composed of, needy persons; and individual or household members to be residing in the geographic location served by the distributing agency at the time of applying for assistance. Except as otherwise provided in this Act or section 27 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2036 ), the provisions of this Act that apply to States with plans approved under section 202A, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be applicable to Tribal organizations with plans approved under this section. The Secretary shall apply the allocation formula under section 214(a) to allot additional commodities using funding under section 27(a)(3) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2036(a)(3) ) to Tribal organizations with approved plans under this section using the best available data, as determined by the Secretary in accordance with subparagraph (B), on— with respect to each applicable Indian Tribe— the number of persons in households that have incomes below the poverty line; and the average monthly number of unemployed persons in the Indian Tribe; and with respect to all applicable Indian Tribes— the number of persons in households that have incomes below the poverty line; and the average monthly number of unemployed persons in all the Indian Tribes. The Secretary shall determine the best available data for purposes of subparagraph
(A)by consulting with other Federal agencies with responsibilities relating to collection of data on Tribal populations, such as the Bureau of the Census, the Indian Health Service, the Office of Minority Health, the Administration on Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Transportation. .
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