---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7506"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7506"
heading: "Assurances; anticipated use"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7506"
units:
  - "Chapter 102 — Emergency Food Assistance"
---

# §7506. Assurances; anticipated use

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall take such precautions as the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) deems necessary to assure that any [eligible recipient agency](/usc/7/7501.md?p=3) receiving commodities under this chapter will provide such commodities to [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) served by the [eligible recipient agency](/usc/7/7501.md?p=3) and will not diminish its normal expenditures for food by reason of the receipt of such commodities. The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall also take such precautions as the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) deems necessary to assure that commodities made available under this chapter will not displace commercial sales of such commodities or the products thereof. The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall not make commodities available for donation in any quantity or manner that the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2), in the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2)’s discretion, determines may, substitute for the same or any other agricultural produce that would otherwise be purchased in the [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1).
- (b) Commodities provided under this chapter shall be distributed only in quantities that can be consumed without waste. No [eligible recipient agency](/usc/7/7501.md?p=3) may receive commodities under this chapter in excess of anticipated use, based on inventory records and controls, or in excess of its ability to accept and store such commodities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203C, as added Pub. L. 98–92, § 2(5), Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 610; amended Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1566, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1591; Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1011(k), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 710.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1995—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–66 struck out at end “The Secretary shall submit to Congress each year a report as to whether and to what extent such displacements or substitutions are occurring.”

1985—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–198 inserted at end “The Secretary shall submit to Congress each year a report as to whether and to what extent such displacements or substitutions are occurring.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 98–92, § 2, Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 608, provided in part that this section is effective Oct. 1, 1983.