§ 5313. — Development of comprehensive plan for National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC5313]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 84--NATIONAL NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH
SUBCHAPTER I--NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH
Sec. 5313. Development of comprehensive plan for National
Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program
(a) Comprehensive plan
The Secretaries, with the advice of the Board, shall prepare and
implement a comprehensive plan for the coordinated program which shall
be designed to--
(1) assess, collate data with respect to, analyze, and report,
on a continuous basis, the dietary and nutritional status of the
people of the United States, and the trends with respect to such
status (dealing with such status and trends separately in the case
of preschool and school-age children, pregnant and lactating women,
elderly individuals, low-income populations, blacks, Hispanics, and
other groups, at the discretion of the Secretaries), the state of
the art with respect to nutrition monitoring and related research,
future monitoring and related research priorities, and relevant
policy implications of findings with respect to such status, trends,
and research;
(2) sample representative subsets of identifiable low-income
populations (such as Native Americans, Hispanics, or the homeless),
and assess, analyze, and report, on a continuous basis, for a
representative sample of the low-income population, food and
household expenditures, participation in food assistance programs,
and periods experienced when nutrition benefits are not sufficient
to provide an adequate diet;
(3) sponsor or conduct research necessary to develop uniform
indicators, standards, methodologies, technologies, and procedures
for conducting and reporting nutrition monitoring and surveillance;
(4) develop and keep updated a national dietary and nutritional
status data bank, a nutrient data bank, and other data resources as
required;
(5) assist State and local government agencies in developing
procedures and networks for nutrition monitoring and surveillance;
and
(6) focus the nutrition monitoring activities of Federal
agencies.
(b) Components of plan
The comprehensive plan, at a minimum, shall include components to--
(1) maintain and coordinate the National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey (NHANES) and the Nationwide Food Consumption
Survey (NFCS);
(2) provide, by 1991, for the continuous collection, processing,
and analysis of nutritional and dietary status data through
stratified probability samples of the people of the United States
designed to permit statistically reliable estimates of high-risk
groups and geographic areas, and to permit accelerated data analysis
(including annual analysis, as appropriate);
(3) maintain and enhance other Federal nutrition monitoring
efforts such as the Centers for Disease Control Nutrition
Surveillance Program and the Food and Drug Administration Total Diet
Study, and, to the extent possible, coordinate such efforts with the
surveys described in paragraphs (1) and (2);
(4) incorporate, in survey design, military and (where
appropriate) institutionalized populations;
(5) complete the analysis and interpretation of the data sets
from the surveys described in paragraph (1) collected prior to 1984
within the first year of the comprehensive plan;
(6) improve the methodologies and technologies, including those
suitable for use by States and localities, available for the
assessment of nutritional and dietary status and trends;
(7) develop uniform standards and indicators for the assessment
and monitoring of nutritional and dietary status, for relating food
consumption patterns to nutritional and health status, and for use
in the evaluation of Federal food and nutrition intervention
programs;
(8) establish national baseline data and procedures for
nutrition monitoring;
(9) provide scientific and technical assistance, training, and
consultation to State and local governments for the purpose of--
(A) obtaining dietary and nutrition status data;
(B) developing related data bases; and
(C) promoting the development of regional, State, and local
data collection services to become an integral component of a
national nutritional status network;
(10) establish mechanisms to identify the needs of users of
nutrition monitoring data and to encourage the private sector and
the academic community to participate in the development and
implementation of the comprehensive plan and contribute relevant
data from non-Federal sources to promote the development of a
national nutritional status network;
(11) compile an inventory of Federal, State, and nongovernment
activities related to nutrition monitoring and related research;
(12) focus on national nutrition monitoring needs while building
on the responsibilities and expertise of the individual membership
of the Board;
(13) administer the coordinated program, define program
objectives, priorities, oversight, responsibilities, and resources,
and define the organization and management of the Board and the
Council; and
(14) provide a mechanism for periodically evaluating and
refining the coordinated program and the comprehensive plan that
facilitates cooperation and interaction by State and local
governments, the private sector, scientific communities, and health
care professionals, and that facilitates coordination with non-
Federal activities.
(c) Additional requirements of plan
The comprehensive plan shall--
(1) allocate all of the projected functions and activities under
the coordinated program among the various Federal agencies and
offices that will be involved;
(2) contain an affirmative statement and description of the
functions to be performed and activities to be undertaken by each of
such agencies and offices in carrying out the coordinated program;
and
(3) constitute the basis on which each agency participating in
the coordinated program requests authorizations and appropriations
for nutrition monitoring and related research during the ten-year
period of the program.
(d) Publication of plan
(1) Proposed plan
Within 12 months after October 22, 1990, the Secretaries shall
publish in the Federal Register a proposed comprehensive plan for
public review for a comment period of no less than sixty days.
(2) Final plan
Within sixty days after the comment period under paragraph (1)
expires, and after considering any comments received, the
Secretaries shall submit to the President, for submission to the
Congress and for publication in the Federal Register, the final
comprehensive plan.
(e) Prohibition on construing
Nothing in this section may be construed as modifying, or as
authorizing the Secretaries or the comprehensive plan to modify, any
provision of an appropriation Act (or any other provision of law
relating to the use of appropriated funds) that specifies--
(1) the department or agency to which funds are appropriated; or
(2) the obligations of such department or agency with respect to
the use of such funds.
(Pub. L. 101-445, title I, Sec. 103, Oct. 22, 1990, 104 Stat. 1037.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 5302, 5312, 5314, 5331 of
this title.
