# Requirements for the Distribution and Control of Donated Foods-The Emergency Food Assistance Program: Implementation of the Agricultural Act of 2014
> **Food and Nutrition Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-04-19 · Effective 2016-06-20 · 81 FR 23086
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-08639
- **Category:** food-assistance
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Nutrition Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 23086
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 250
- **Publication date:** 2016-04-19
- **Effective date:** 2016-06-20
- **USDA docket:** FNS-2014-0040
## Abstract

This rule revises and clarifies requirements to ensure that USDA donated foods are distributed, stored, and managed in the safest, most efficient, and cost-effective manner, at State and recipient agency levels. The rule also reduces administrative and reporting requirements for State distributing agencies, revises or clarifies regulatory provisions relating to accountability for donated foods, and rewrites much of the regulations in a more user-friendly, "plain language," format. Lastly, the rule revises and clarifies specific requirements to conform more closely to related requirements in corresponding regulations and current law.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/04/19/2016-08639/requirements-for-the-distribution-and-control-of-donated-foods-the-emergency-food-assistance-program)
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