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USDA/FAS RIN: 0551-AA78 Publication ID: Spring 2009 
Title: McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole Program) Program and Food for Progress (FFP) Program 
Abstract: The McGovern-Dole Program helps promote education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. It provides for donations of U.S. agricultural products, as well as financial and technical assistance for school feeding, and maternal and child nutrition projects in low-income countries. The FFP is targeted to countries that are making strides toward democracy and private enterprise. The program emphasizes private sector agricultural and economic development and enhanced food security in recipient countries. This final rule amends the regulations at 7 CFR parts 1499 and 1599 used to administer the McGovern-Dole Program and the FFP, respectively, by removing obsolete references to offices within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and by making revisions to provide greater clarity with respect to all aspects of the program, with specific emphasis on: The eligibility requirements that a participant must meet and the actions that must be undertaken by a participant in order to receive assistance under these programs including the reports that are filed by program participants with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). The commodity procurement regulations at 7 CFR part 1496 which are used to obtain commodities under these programs would be deleted and republished, with minor revisions, in the Agriculture Acquisition Regulation (AGAR) in chapter 4 of title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The AGAR would also be amended to specify the criteria used in determining whether a purchased commodity is solely a product of the United States. The criteria would be applicable to commodities procured under international and domestic feeding programs administered by USDA. 
Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 1499    7 CFR 1599   
Legal Authority: 7 USC 1736-1   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  10/24/2008  73 FR 63387   
NPRM Comment Period End  12/08/2008    
Final Action  03/26/2009  74 FR 13062   
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Information URL: www.fas.usda.gov  
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Tamoria S Thompson-Hall
Budget Analyst
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service
Room 6087, Room 6083-S, MS 1028, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250-1028
Phone:202 690-1690
Email: tammy.thompson@usda.gov