[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7 Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR215.13a]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 215--SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 215.13a  Determining eligibility for free milk in child-care institutions.

    (a) General. Child care institutions which operate pricing programs 
may elect to make free milk available, as set forth in Sec. 215.7(d)(2), 
to children who meet the approved eligibility criteria. Such child care 
institutions shall determine the children who are eligible for free milk 
and assure that there is no physical segregation of, or other 
discrimination against, or overt identification of, children unable to 
pay the full price for milk.
    (b) Action by State agencies and FNSROs. Each State agency, or FNSRO 
where applicable, upon application for the program by a child care 
institution operating a pricing program, and annually thereafter, shall 
require the institution to state whether or not it wishes to serve free 
milk to eligible children at times that milk is provided under the 
Program. It shall annually require each child care institution electing 
to provide free milk to submit a free milk policy statement and shall 
provide such institutions with a prototype free milk policy statement 
and a copy of the State's family-size income standards for determining 
eligibility for free meals and milk under the National School Lunch and 
School Breakfast Programs to assist the institutions in meeting its 
responsibilities.
    (c) Action by institutions. Each child care institution which 
operates a pricing program shall inform the State agency, or FNSRO where 
applicable, at the time it applies for Program participation and at 
least annually thereafter, whether or not it wishes to provide free 
milk. Institutions electing to provide free milk shall annually submit a 
written free milk policy statement for determining free milk eligibility 
of children under their jurisdiction, which shall contain the items 
specified in paragraph (d) of this section. Such institutions shall not 
be approved for Program participation of their agreements renewed unless 
the free milk policy has been reviewed and approved. Pending approval or 
a revision of a policy statement, the existing policy shall remain in 
effect.
    (d) Policy statement. A free milk policy statement as required in 
paragraph (c) of this section shall contain the following:
    (1) The specific criteria to be used in determining eligibility for 
free milk. These criteria shall give consideration to economic need as 
reflected by family size and income. The criteria used by the child-care 
institution may not result in the eligibility of children from families 
whose incomes exceed the State's family-size income standards for 
determining eligibility for free meals under the National School Lunch 
and School Breakfast Programs.
    (2) The method by which the child-care institution will collect 
information from families in order to determine a child's eligibility 
for free milk.
    (3) The method by which the child-care institution will collect milk 
payments so as to prevent the overt identification of children receiving 
free milk.
    (4) A hearing procedure substantially like that outlined in part 245 
of this chapter.
    (5) An assurance that there will be no discrimination against free 
milk recipients and no discrimination against any child on the basis of 
race, color, or national origin.
    (e) Public announcement of eligibility criteria. Each child care 
institution which elects to make free milk available under the Program 
shall annually make a public announcement of the availability of free 
milk to children who meet the approved eligibility criteria to the 
information media serving the area from which its attendance is drawn. 
The public announcement must also state that milk is available to all

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children in attendance without regard to race, color, or national 
origin.


(Sec. 11, Pub. L. 95-166, 91 Stat. 1337 (42 U.S.C. 1772, 1753, 1766); 
sec. 5, Pub. L. 95-627, 92 Stat. 3619 (42 U.S.C. 1772))

[Amdt. 14, 41 FR 31176, July 27, 1976, as amended by Amdt. 16, 43 FR 
1060, Jan. 6, 1978; 44 FR 10700, Feb. 23, 1979; Amdt. 17, 44 FR 33047, 
June 8, 1979]