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[CITE: 42USC1769b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 13--SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 1769b. Department of Defense overseas dependents' schools


(a) Purpose of program; availability of payments and commodities

    For the purpose of obtaining Federal payments and commodities in 
conjunction with the provision of lunches to students attending 
Department of Defense dependents' schools which are located outside the 
United States, its territories or possessions, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall make available to the Department of Defense, from 
funds appropriated for such purpose, the same payments and commodities 
as are provided to States for schools participating in the National 
School Lunch Program in the United States.

(b) Administration of program; eligibility determinations and 
        regulations

    The Secretary of Defense shall administer lunch programs authorized 
by this section and shall determine eligibility for free and reduced 
price lunches under the criteria published by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, except that the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations governing computation of income eligibility standards for 
families of students participating in the National School Lunch Program 
under this section.

(c) Nutritional standards for meals; noncompliance with standards

    The Secretary of Defense shall be required to offer meals meeting 
nutritional standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; 
however, the Secretary of Defense may authorize deviations from 
Department of Agriculture prescribed meal patterns and fluid milk 
requirements when local conditions preclude strict compliance or when 
such compliance is impracticable.

(d) Authorization of appropriations

    Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year 
in such amounts as may be necessary for the administrative expenses of 
the Department of Defense under this section.

(e) Technical assistance for administration of program

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide the Secretary of Defense 
with the technical assistance in the administration of the school lunch 
programs authorized by this section.

(June 4, 1946, ch. 281, Sec. 20, formerly Sec. 22, as added Pub. L. 95-
561, title XIV, Sec. 1408(a), Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2368; renumbered 
Sec. 20 and amended Pub. L. 99-500, title III, Secs. 328(a), 371(c)(1), 
Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783-362, 1783-368, and Pub. L. 99-591, title 
III, Secs. 328(a), 371(c)(1), Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-365, 3341-
372; renumbered Sec. 20 and amended Pub. L. 99-661, div. D, title II, 
Sec. 4208(a), title V, Sec. 4501(c)(1), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 4073, 
4080; Pub. L. 101-147, title III, Sec. 312(2), Nov. 10, 1989, 103 Stat. 
916.)

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 99-591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99-500.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 20 of act June 4, 1946, was renumbered section 18 of 
act June 4, 1946, and is classified to section 1769 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-147 substituted ``reduced price'' for 
``reduced-price''.
    1986--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99-500 and Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 328(a), 
and Pub. L. 99-661, Sec. 4208(a), amended subsec. (d) identically, 
striking out ``and for payment of the difference between the value of 
commodities and payments received from the Secretary of Agriculture and 
(1) the full cost of each lunch for each student eligible for a free 
lunch, and (2) the full cost of each lunch, less any amounts required by 
law or regulation to be paid by each student eligible for a reduced-
price lunch'' after ``this section''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1978 and no provision herein to be 
construed as impairing or preventing the taking effect of any other Act 
providing for the transfer of functions described herein to an executive 
department having responsibility for education, see section 1415 of Pub. 
L. 95-561, set out as a note under section 921 of Title 20, Education.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer to Secretary of Education of functions of Secretary of 
Defense and Department of Defense relating to operation of overseas 
schools for dependents of Department of Defense and under Defense 
Dependents' Education Act of 1978, 20 U.S.C. 921 et seq., see section 
3442(a) of Title 20, Education.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 10 section 2243.
