SUPPLEMENTATION OF COMMODITIES.

SEC. 102. SUPPLEMENTATION OF COMMODITIES.The Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended by adding after section 203C the following new section: “SEC. 203D. STATE AND LOCAL SUPPLEMENTATION OF COMMODITIES. “(a) Authorization.—The Secretary shall establish procedures under which State and local agencies, charitable institutions, or any other persons may supplement the commodities distributed under the program authorized by this Act for use by emergency feeding organizations with nutritious and wholesome commodities that such entities or persons donate to State agencies and emergency feeding organizations for distribution, in all or part of the State, in addition to the commodities otherwise made available under this Act. “(b) Use of Funds and Facilities.—States and emergency feeding organizations may use the funds appropriated under this Act and equipment, structures, vehicles, and all other facilities involved in the storage, handling, or distribution of commodities made available under this Act, and the personnel, both paid or volunteer, involved in such storage, handling, or distribution, to store, handle or distribute commodities donated for the use of emergency feeding organizations under subsection (a). “(c) Volunteer Workers.—State and emergency feeding organizations shall continue, to the maximum extent practicable, to use volunteer workers and commodities and other foodstuffs donated by charitable and other organizations in the operation of the program authorized by this section.”.