State agency responsibilities.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (2) By February 1 of each fiscal year, each State agency must announce the purpose, eligibility criteria, and availability of the Program throughout the State, through appropriate means of communication. As part of this effort, each State agency must: (i) Identify areas in which poor economic conditions exist to qualify for the Program and actively seek eligible applicant sponsors to serve: (A) Rural areas; (B) Indian Tribal territories; and (C) Areas with a concentration of migrant farm workers. (ii) The State agency must identify rural areas with no congregate meal service and encourage participating sponsors to provide non-congregate meals to eligible children in those areas. (iii) The State agency must target outreach efforts to priority outreach areas. (iv) For approval of closed enrolled sites, the State agency must establish criteria to ensure that operation of a (3) Each State agency shall require applicant sponsors submitting Program application site information sheets, Program agreements, or a request for advance payments, and sponsors submitting claims for reimbursement to certify that the information submitted on these forms is true and correct and that the sponsor is aware that deliberate misrepresentation or withholding of information may result in prosecution under applicable State and Federal statutes. (4) In addition to the warnings specified in paragraph (a)(3) of this section, State agencies may include the following information on applications and pre-

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 225.6