[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR248.1]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 248_WIC FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM (FMNP)--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  248.1  General purpose and scope.


    This part announces regulations under which the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall carry out the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. 
The dual purposes of the FMNP are:
    (a) To provide resources in the form of fresh, nutritious, 
unprepared foods (fruits and vegetables) from farmers' markets to women, 
infants, and children who are nutritionally at risk and who are 
participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, 
Infants and Children (WIC) or

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are on the waiting list for the WIC Program; and
    (b) To expand the awareness, use of and sales at farmers' markets.
    This will be accomplished through payment of cash grants to approved 
State agencies which administer the FMNP and deliver benefits at no cost 
to eligible persons. The FMNP shall be supplementary to the food stamp 
program carried out under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.) and to any other Federal or State program under which foods are 
distributed to needy families in lieu of food stamps.