Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a)
Policy. NSIP rewards,
through cash or commodities, Title III-C nutrition projects for efficiently
delivering nutritious meals to participants. Title III-C nutrition projects
maintain certification of eligible participants for NSIP.
(b)
Authority. The authority for
this Section is Section 311 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as
amended.
(c)
Procedures. The requirements for implementing this Section are
outlined in this subsection.
(1) Projects and
their respective vendors apply to the appropriate state distributing agency for
certification as eligible participants in NSIP.
(2) Vendors and projects accept, store, and
use donated food commodities as supplied to them. Donated commodities, and cash
in lieu of commodities, are only used in meal preparation funded through Title
III-C.
(A) Vendors allow credit for the
amount of commodities used during each billing period.
(B) Community Living, Aging and Protective
Services (CAP) and Support Services Commodity Distribution Unit (CDU) of
Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) determines the amount of credit per
pound.
(3) Projects
develop management procedures pertaining to handling food
commodities.
(4) Documenting
recruitments include:
(A) NSIP foods utilized
in each day's menu;
(B) participant
eligibility, on required OKDHS forms, to obtain NSIP support for eligible
meals. Eligible meals are those meals served to eligible participants, per
Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC)
340:105-10-69(a)(1)
and
340:105-10-83(a).
The participant's eligibility and meal reimbursement documentation is recorded
on:
(i) Title III Program
Registration
(ii) Nutrition Project
Attendance Form or comparable CAP pre-approved form; and
(iii) activity roster generated by current
nutritional participants in the database;
(C) the number of meals served at nutrition
sites entered into the database with all required documentation no later than
the fifteenth day of the month following the report month; and
(D) age eligibility, only when project
management has reasonable cause to question the accuracy of age the participant
or the participant's representative provides on Title III Program
Registration.
(5) CAP
provides projects with NSIP cash or cash and commodity allocations of food
commodities based on the number of eligible meals actually served in the
previous year in relationship to the total number of meals actually served by
all Title III-C projects. OKDHS CDU distributes commodities to the
projects.
(d)
Cross
references. See OAC
340:105-10-50.1(a)(4)
and (7),
340:105-10-51,
340:105-10-68
through
340:105-10-78,
and
340:105-10-80.
Added at 11 Ok Reg
673, eff 11-29-93 (emergency); Added at 11 Ok Reg 2771, eff 6-13-94; Amended at
19 Ok Reg 1170, eff 5-13-02; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 898, eff 4-26-04; Amended at
23 Ok Reg 1062, eff 7-15-06; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1325, eff
6-1-07
