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 PUBLIC LAW 100-435—SEPT. 19, 1988

102 STAT. 1662

(2) by inserting at the end thereof the following: "(D) the State agency, at its option, may undertake intensive training to ensure that State agency personnel who undertsJs:e the certification of households that include a member who engages in farming are qualified to perform such certification;". (b) TRAINING MATERIALS.—Section 16 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(k) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall publish instructional materials specifically designed to be used by the State agency to provide intensive training to State agency personnel who undertake the certification of households that include a member who engeiges in farming.". (c) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Section 16 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended by redesignating subsection (h), as added by section 1210)X5) of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, as subsection (j). SEC. 322. TRAINING OF CERTIFICATION WORKERS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES.

(a)

Contracts. Voluntarism.

TRAINING

CERTIFICATION WORKERS.—Section

ll(e)(6)(C) (7

U.S.C. 2020(e)(6)(C)) is amended— (1) by striking out "undertake to"; and (2) by inserting "so that eligible households are promptly and accurately certified to receive the allotments for which they are eligible under this Act" after "such certification". 0)) COMMUNITY RESOURCES.—Section ll(e)(6) (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(6)) (as amended by section 321(a) and subsection (a)) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subparagraph: "and (E) at its option, the State agency may provide, or contract for the provision of, training and assistance to persons working with volunteer or nonprofit organizations that provide program information activities or eligibility screening to persons potentially eligible for food stamps;". SEC. 323. PREVENTING INCORRECT ISSUANCES.

Communications and telecommunications.

Section 11(e) (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)) (as amended by section 311) is further amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end of paragraph (3), the following: ", and that the State agency shall provide the household, at the time of each certification and recertification, with a statement describing the reporting responsibilities of the household under this Act, and provide a toll-free or local telephone number, or a telephone number at which collect calls will be accepted by the State agency, at which the household may reach an appropriate representative of the State agency".

Subtitle C—Reducing Barriers in Rural America SEC. 330. TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULTIES IN RURAL AREAS. Aged persons. Handicapped persons.

Section ll(e)(2) (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(2)) (as amended by section 310), is further amended by striking out "The State Agency shall comply" and all that follows through "certified properly;" and inserting in lieu thereof the following new sentences: "The State agency shall waive in-office interviews, on a household's request, if a household is unable to appoint an authorized representative pursuant to para-

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