7 U.S.C. § 7511a: Emergency food program infrastructure grants

In this section, the term “eligible entity” means an emergency feeding organization. The Secretary shall use funds made available under subsection (d) to make grants to eligible entities to pay the costs of an activity described in subsection (c). expanding the capacity and infrastructure of food banks, State-wide food bank associations, and food bank collaboratives that operate in rural areas; and improving the capacity of the food banks to procure, receive, store, distribute, track, and deliver time-sensitive or perishable food products. the development and maintenance of a computerized system for the tracking of time-sensitive food products; capital, infrastructure, and operating costs associated with the collection, storage, distribution, and transportation of time-sensitive and perishable food products; improving the security and diversity of the emergency food distribution and recovery systems of the United States through the support of small or mid-size farms and ranches, fisheries, and aquaculture, and donations from local food producers and manufacturers to persons in need; providing recovered foods to food banks and similar nonprofit emergency food providers to reduce hunger in the United States; potential providers of donated foods; potential nonprofit emergency food providers; and persons in need of emergency food assistance in rural areas; and constructing, expanding, or repairing a facility or equipment to support hunger relief agencies in the community. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2023.