[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 11 (Monday, March 17, 2003)]
[Pages 314-315]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Implementation of Section 3107 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002, Relating to Food for Education and Child 
Nutrition

March 11, 2003

Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

Subject: Implementation of Section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002, Relating to Food for Education and Child 
Nutrition

    Effective upon the publication of this memorandum in the Federal 
Register, there is established the program relating to food for 
education and child nutrition authorized by subsection 3107(b) of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public

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Law 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1). Pursuant to subsection 3107(d) of the 
Act, the Department of Agriculture is designated to take actions 
specified in that subsection. The authorities and duties of the 
President under section 3107 (except the authority to designate under 
3107(d)) are delegated to the Secretary of Agriculture.
    In the implementation of a program for which section 3107 provides, 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall consult as appropriate with the Food 
Policy Assistance Council established by section 3 of Executive Order 
12752 of February 25, 1991, as amended, and such heads of Federal 
departments and agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 14, 
2003]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on March 17.