Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/1370

 91 STAT. 1336

PUBLIC LAW 95-166—NOV. 10, 1977

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(and, when approved by the local school district or nonprofit private schools, students in any other grade level in any junior high school or middle school) shall not be required to accept offered foods they do not intend to consume, and any such failure to accept offered foods shall not affect the full charge to the student for a lunch meeting the requirements of this subsection or the amount of payments made under this Act to any such school for such lunch.". SPECIAL ASSISTANCE

Appropriation authorization. 4z U31. iit>^a.

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SEC. 9. Section 11(a) of the National School Lunch Act is amended by inserting; immediately after the first sentence the following new sentences: "In the case of any school which determines that at least 80 percent of the children in attendance during a school year (hereinafter in this sentence referred to as the 'first school year') are eligible for free lunches or reduced-price lunches, special-assistance payments shall be paid to the State educational agency with respect to that school, if that school so requests for the school year following the first school year, on the basis of the number of free lunches or reduced-price lunches, as the case may be, that are served by that school during the school year for which the request is made, to those children who were determined to be so eligible in the first school year and the number of free lunches and reduced-price lunches served during that year to other children determined for that year to be eligible for such lunches. In the case of any school that (1) elects to serve all children in that school free lunches under the.school lunch program during any period of three successive school years and (2) pays, from sources other than Federal funds, for the costs of serving such lunches which are in excess of the value of assistance received under this Act with respect to the number of lunches served during that period, special-assistance payments shall be paid to the State educational agency with respect to that school during that period on the basis of the number of lunches determined under the succeeding sentence. For purposes of making special-assistance payments in accordance with the preceding sentence, the number of lunches served by a school to children eligible for free lunches and reduced-price lunches during each school year of the three-school-year period shall be deemed to be the number of lunches served by that school to children eligible for free lunches and reducedprice lunches during the first school year of such period, unless that school elects, for purposes of computing the amount of such payments, to determine on a more frequent basis the number of children eligible for free and reduced-price lunches who are served lunches during such period.". PILOT PROJECTS

42 USC 1755.

SEC. 10. The National School Lunch Act is amended by— (1) inserting in section 6(a)(3) immediately after "participants in these programs" the following: ", for pilot projects and the cash-in-lieu of commodities study required to be carried out under section 20 of this Act,"; and (2) adding at the end thereof a new section 20 as follows: a PILOT

42 USC 1769.

PROJECTS

"SEC. 20. (a) The Secretary shall conduct pilot projects with respect to local school districts or other appropriate units, or groups of program participants, for the purpose of determining whether there may be more efficient, healthful, economical, and reliable methods of operating school lunch, school breakfast, and summer feeding pro-

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