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Creates a new USDA Office of Food Loss and Waste to coordinate research, reporting, grants, and outreach aimed at cutting U.S. food loss and food waste 50% from 2016 levels by 2030. The bill funds regional coordinators, multiple grant programs (including public-private partnership grants and state/tribal block grants), requires federal contractor reporting and interagency collaboration, and establishes a national education campaign on food waste prevention and upcycled food products.
The bill increases federal support, coordination, and local capacity to recover and reduce food waste—helping low-income households, farmers, and recovery organizations—but does so with modest funding, new matching and reporting requirements, and administrative/regulatory burdens that could limit reach and strain smaller or rural participants.
Low-income individuals and families will get more recovered and redistributed food because federal grants fund improved storage, processing, distribution, and donation reporting that expand food-bank capacity and increase donated surplus.
State, local, and Tribal governments and nonprofits gain new grants, pilot programs, model policies, data collection, and technical tools that build local capacity to measure, coordinate, and reduce food loss and waste toward the 50% by 2030 goal.
Farmers and supply-chain producers can access research, tools, prioritized grant funding, and technical assistance to reduce on-farm losses (including milk loss) and to repurpose byproducts as animal feed, improving efficiency and potentially increasing farm income.
Taxpayers face increased federal spending and ongoing budget commitments (multiple line items between FY2026–2030), meaning higher federal outlays for relatively modest annual authorizations that may compete with other priorities.
Local, State, and Tribal governments — and some nonprofits — must provide matching funds (ranging from 10% to 50% in different programs), which could strain budgets, limit participation, or divert resources from other local services.
Smaller nonprofits, local governments, contractors, and small food businesses may face new administrative and compliance burdens (grant rules, reporting, application requirements, verifiable data for upcycled claims, audits), which can exclude low-capacity applicants and raise costs.
Introduced April 9, 2025 by Christopher A. Coons · Last progress April 9, 2025