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The Secretary may carry out a special supplemental nutrition program to assist State agencies through grants-in-aid and other means to provide, through local agencies, at no cost, supplemental foods, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support and promotion to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children who satisfy the eligibility requirements specified in subsection (d) of this section. The program shall be supplementary to—
(A) the supplemental nutrition assistance program;
(B) any program under which foods are distributed to needy families in lieu of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; and
(C) receipt of food or meals from soup kitchens, or shelters, or other forms of emergency food assistance.
the supplemental nutrition assistance program;
any program under which foods are distributed to needy families in lieu of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; and
receipt of food or meals from soup kitchens, or shelters, or other forms of emergency food assistance.
Subject to amounts appropriated to carry out this section under subsection (g)—
(A) the Secretary shall make cash grants to State agencies for the purpose of administering the program, and
(B) any State agency approved eligible local agency that applies to participate in or expand the program under this section shall immediately be provided with the necessary funds to carry out the program.
the Secretary shall make cash grants to State agencies for the purpose of administering the program, and
any State agency approved eligible local agency that applies to participate in or expand the program under this section shall immediately be provided with the necessary funds to carry out the program.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to permit the Secretary to reduce ratably the amount of foods that an eligible local agency shall distribute under the program to participants. The Secretary shall take affirmative action to ensure that the program is instituted in areas most in need of supplemental foods. The existence of a commodity supplemental food program under section 4 of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 shall not preclude the approval of an application from an eligible local agency to participate in the program under this section nor the operation of such program within the same geographic area as that of the commodity supplemental food program, but the Secretary shall issue such regulations as are necessary to prevent dual receipt of benefits under the commodity supplemental food program and the program under this section.