---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3030g–23"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3030g–23"
heading: "Nutrition services impact study"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3030g-23"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Programs for Older Americans"
  - "Subchapter III — Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging"
  - "Part C — Nutrition Services"
  - "Subpart iii — general provisions"
---

# §3030g–23. Nutrition services impact study

- (a) **Study—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall perform a study to assess how to measure and evaluate the discrepancy between available services and the demand for such services in the home delivered nutrition services [program](/usc/42/3056p.md?p=a-7) and the congregate nutrition services [program](/usc/42/3056p.md?p=a-7) under this part, which shall include assessing various methods (such as those that [States](/usc/42/3002.md?p=51) use) to measure and evaluate the discrepancy (such as measurement through the length of waitlists).
  - (2) **Contents—** In performing the study, the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall—
    - (A) consider means of obtaining information in rural and underserved communities; and
    - (B) consider using existing tools (existing as of the date the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) begins the study) such as the tools developed through the Performance Outcome Measurement [Project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2).
  - (3) **Analysis—** The [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall analyze and determine which methods are the least burdensome and most effective for measuring and evaluating the discrepancy described in [paragraph (1)](#a-1).
- (b) **Recommendations—**
  - (1) **Preparation—** Not later than 3 years after March 25, 2020, the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall prepare recommendations—
    - (A) on how to measure and evaluate, with the least burden and the most effectiveness, the discrepancy described in [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) (such as measurement through the length of waitlists); and
    - (B) about whether studies similar to the study described in [subsection (a)](#a) should be carried out for [programs](/usc/42/3056p.md?p=a-7) carried out under this chapter, other than this part.
  - (2) **Issuance—** The [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall issue the recommendations, and make the recommendations available as a notification pursuant to [section 3012(a)(34) of this title](/usc/42/3012.md?p=a-34) and to the committees of the Senate and of the House of Representatives with jurisdiction over this chapter, and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–73, title III, § 339B, as added Pub. L. 116–131, title II, § 216, Mar. 25, 2020, 134 Stat. 259.)