Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/578

 89 STAT. 518

Appropriation authorization.

Recordkeeping.

PUBLIC LAW 94-105—OCT. 7, 1975 same purpose and subject to the same conditions as are required of a State educational agency disbursing funds made available under this section. "(i) Expenditures of funds from State and local sources for the maintenance of food programs for children shall not be diminished as a result of funds received under this section. "(j) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary's administrative expenses under this section. "(k) The Secretary shall pay to each State for administrative costs incurred pursuant to this section an amount equal to 2 per centum of the funds distributed to that State pursuant to subsection (b): Provided, That no State shall receive less than $10,000 each fiscal year for its administrative costs unless the funds distributed to that State pursuant to subsection (b) total less than $50,000 for such fiscal year. " (1) Nothing in this section shall be construed as precluding a service institution from contracting on a competitive basis for the furnishing of meals or administration of the program, or both. "(m) States, State educational agencies, and service institutions participating in programs under this section: shall keep such accounts and records as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to determine whether there has been compliance with this section and the regulations hereunder. Such accounts and records shall at all times be available for inspection and audit by representatives of the Secretary and shall be preserved for such period of time, not in excess of 5 years, as the Secretary determines is necessary.". SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL, FOOD PROGRAM

Effective date. 42 USC 1786.

SEC. 14. Effective beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 is revised to read as follows: u SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM

Cash grants.

"SEC. 17. (a) The Congress finds that substantial numbers of pregnant women, infants, and young children are at special risk in respect to their physical and mental health by reason of poor or inadequate nutrition or health care, or both. It is, therefore, the purpose of the program authorized by this section to provide supplemental nutritijous food as an adjunct to good health care during such critical times of growth and development in order to prevent the occurrence of health problems. "(b)(1) During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, and the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the Secretary shall make cash grants to the health department or comparable agency of each State, Indian tribe, band or group recognized by the Department of the Interior; or the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the purpose of providing funds to local health or welfare agencies or private nonprofit agencies of such State; Indian tribe, band, or group reco^ized by the Department of the Interior; or the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, serving local health or welfare needs to enable such agencies to carry out health and nutrition programs under which supplemental foods will be made available to pregnant or lactating women and to infants determined by competent professionals to be nutritional risks because of inade-

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