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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 3 4 1 - S E P T. 21, 1959

ployed, or other similar groups. Any State or local subdivision thereof which decreases the cash or other assistance extended to any person or group as a consequence of the assistance made available under this section shall be ineligible for further participation under this section. "(e) Surplus foods to be distributed under this section shall be limited to surplus foods acquired under the Agricultural Act of 1949 or diverted from the normal channels of trade under Section 32 of Public Law 320, T4th Congress. " (f) For the purposes of this section, a needy person is anyone receiving welfare assistance (financial or otherwise) from the welfare department or equivalent agency of any State or political subdivision thereof, or who is, in the opinion of such agency or agencies, in need of welfare assistance but is ineligible to receive it because of State or local law. " (g) The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Secretary of Labor, shall make a study of, and shall report to Congress within six months after the date of enactment of this section, on the feasibility of, the costs of, and the problems involved in, extending the scope of the food stamp plan established by this section to include persons receiving unemployment compensation, receiving old-age and survivors insurance (social security) pensions, and other low-income groups not eligible to receive food stamps under this section. " (h) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section." SEC. 12. Title III of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof a new section as follows: "SEC. 307. Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture determines under section 106 of this Act that any food commodity is a surplus agricultural commodity, insofar as practicable he shall make such commodity available for distribution to needy families and persons in the United States in such quantities as he determines are reasonably necessary before such commodity is made available for sale for foreign currencies under title I of this Act." SEC. 13. Title III of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof a new section as follows: "SEC. 308. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation is hereby authorized— "(1) to dispose of its stocks of animal fats and edible oils or products thereof by donation, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture deems appropriate, to nonprofit voluntary agencies registered with the Department of State, appropriate agencies of the Federal Government or international organizations, for use in the assistance of needy persons outside the United States; "(2) to purchase for donation as provided above such quantities of animal fats and edible oils and the products thereof as the Secretary determines will tend to maintain the support level for cottonseed and soybeans without requiring the acquisition of such commodities under the price support program. Commodity Credit Corporation may incur such additional costs with respect to commodities to be donated hereunder as it is authorized to incur with respect to food commodities disposed of under section 416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, and may pay ocean freight charges from United States ports to designated ports of entry abroad."

63 Stat. 105 1. 7 USC 142 I note. 7 USC 612c. Needy person.

Report to gress.

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Appropriation.

68 Stat. 458. 7 USC 1427, 1431, 1692-1694.

Animal fats and edible oils.

63 Stat. 1058. 7 USC 1431.

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