113 HR 2147 IH: Preserving Healthy Food for the Hungry Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2013-05-23
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1.This Act may be cited as the
Preserving Healthy Food for the Hungry
Act
.
2.Quick freeze and
flash freeze local produce grants
(a)Section 231 of the
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a) is amended—
(1)in subsection
(b)(7)(B), by inserting and subsection (f)
after
subsection
;
(2)in subsection
(e)(2), by inserting , except pursuant to subsection (f)
before
the period; and
(3)by adding at the
end the following:
(f)Quick freeze and
flash freeze local produce grants
(1)Subject to the
availability of appropriations to carry out this section, the Secretary shall
make grants to institutions eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2,
1862 (12 Stat. 503–505, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 301–305, 307 and 308), or the Act
of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417–419, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321–326 and 328)
that applies therefor, to assist persons in preserving the quality and
shelf-life of fruit and vegetable crops produced by the persons on qualified
land, through the use of mobile and fixed flash freezing and quick freezing
units and other units utilizing freezing methods which produce the same result,
in accordance with any applicable Federal, State, or local food safety law,
regulation, or ordinance.
(2)In
this paragraph:
(A)The term qualified land means, with respect to
a person, any plot of land owned or operated by the person, the annual gross
sales from the specialty crops produced on which are not more than
$249,000.
(B)The term specialty crop has the meaning
provided in section 3(1) of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of
2004.
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(b)The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on
the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.