[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 7CFR275.18]



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                          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]