[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR275.18]

[Page 850]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 275--PERFORMANCE REPORTING SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart E--Corrective Action
 
Sec. 275.18  Project area/management unit corrective action plan.

    (a) The State agency shall ensure that corrective action plans are 
prepared at the project area/management unit level, addressing those 
deficiencies not required to be included in the State corrective action 
plan. State agencies may elect to prepare these plans for or in 
cooperation with the project area. These project area/management unit 
corrective action plans shall be open-ended and shall remain in effect 
until all deficiencies in program operations have been reduced 
substantially or eliminated. Any deficiencies detected through any 
source not previously reported to the State agency which require 
incorporation into the Project Area/Management Unit Corrective Action 
Plan shall be submitted to the State agency within 60 days of 
identification. As deficiencies are reduced substantially or eliminated, 
the project area/management unit shall notify the State agency in 
writing. The project area/management unit shall be responsible for 
documenting why each deficiency is being removed from the Plan. The 
removal of any deficiency from the Plan will be subject to State agency 
and FNS review and validation.
    (b) Content. Project area/management unit corrective action plans 
shall contain all the information necessary to enable the State agency 
to monitor and evaluate the corrective action properly. Also, State 
agencies shall establish requirements for project area/management units 
in planning, implementing and reporting corrective action to assist the 
State agency's efforts to fulfill its responsibilities for determining 
which deficiencies must be addressed in the State corrective action 
plan. States should consider requiring project area/management unit 
plans to include the following, based on the most recent information 
available:
    (1) Specific description and identification of each deficiency;
    (2) Source(s) through which the deficiency was detected;
    (3) Magnitude of each deficiency, if appropriate, as defined in 
Sec. 275.15(c)(3) of this part;
    (4) Geographic extent of the deficiency (throughout the project 
area/management unit or only in specific offices);
    (5) Identification of causal factor(s) contributing to the 
occurrence of each deficiency;
    (6) Identification of any action already completed to eliminate the 
deficiency;
    (7) For each deficiency, an outline of actions to be taken, the 
expected outcome of each action, the target date for each action, the 
date by which each deficiency will have been eliminated; and
    (8) For each deficiency, a description of the manner in which the 
project area/management unit will monitor and evaluate the effectiveness 
of the corrective action in eliminating the deficiency.

[Amdt. 160, 45 FR 15909, Mar. 11, 1980]