<searchTitle>WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP): Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004; Federal Register Vol. 74, Issue </searchTitle>
<granuleClass>RULE</granuleClass>
<accessId>E9-21468</accessId>
<agency order="1">DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE</agency>
<agency order="2">Food and Nutrition Service</agency>
<effectiveDate>2009-10-13</effectiveDate>
<departmentDoc>FNS-2007-0008</departmentDoc>
<rin number="0584-AD74"/>
<billingCode>3410-30-P</billingCode>
<frDocNumber>E9-21468</frDocNumber>
<action>Final rule.</action>
<summary>This is an affirmation by the Department of an interim rule as a final rule, without change amending the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) regulations to codify three FMNP nondiscretionary provisions mandated in the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. The three nondiscretionary provisions include the option to authorize roadside stands, a reduction in the required amount of State matching funds, and an increase in the maximum Federal benefit level. These changes are intended to increase State agency flexibility in managing the Program. The first two provisions became effective on October 1, 2004, while the increased maximum Federal FMNP benefit level was effective as of June 30, 2004.</summary>
<dates>Effective on October 13, 2009 the Department is adopting as a final rule the interim rule published at 73 FR 65246 on November 3, 2008.</dates>
<contact>Debra R. Whitford, Director, Supplemental Food Programs Division, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 528, Alexandria, VA 22302, (703) 305-2746, or Debbie.Whitford@fns.usda.gov.</contact>
<cfr title="7">
<part number="248"/>
<subject>Food Assistance Programs</subject>
<subject>Food Donations</subject>
<subject>Grant Programs-Social Programs</subject>
<subject>Indians</subject>
<subject>Infants and Children</subject>
<subject>Maternal and Child Health</subject>
<subject>Nondiscrimination</subject>
<subject>Nutrition Education</subject>
<subject>Public Assistance Programs</subject>
<subject>WIC</subject>
<subject>Women</subject>
...</cfr>
<tocSubject1>WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program:</tocSubject1>
<tocDoc>Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act (of 2004)
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<emailRef>Debbie.Whitford@fns.usda.gov</emailRef>