Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act Amendments

This rule incorporates changes to the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) required by the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989 and the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994 by: providing administrative funds to family day care home sponsors for expansion into low-income or rural areas; granting federally funded income-eligible Head Start participants automatic eligibility for free CACFP meals without further application or eligibility determination; and allowing the use of administrative funds to assist unlicensed day care homes in becoming licensed. These revisions are intended to encourage Program participation in low-income and rural areas and to reduce the level of administrative and paperwork burden for Federal, State and local Program administrators and for Program participants. In addition, this rule amends 7 CFR chapter II to reflect the renaming of the Food and Consumer Service as the Food and Nutrition Service.