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| Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced in a press release dated September 21, 2010, “USDA Announces Technology Grants for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children” that nearly $14 million of competitive FY 2010 technology grant funds have been awarded to 13 WIC State agencies. These competitive grant awards will be used to improve technology and enhance benefit delivery systems for the WIC Program. Eight of the 13 WIC State agencies received Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) planning grant funds; three received EBT implementation grant funds; and six received funding for technical standardization projects. In addition to the competitive grant awards, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service awarded $16 million of FY 2010 technology grant funds to 10 WIC State agencies for continued support of their existing EBT projects or State Agency Model (SAM) transfer projects. Other technology grant funds awarded this fiscal year include $4.2 million of recovered American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant funds to three WIC State agencies for technology projects that were not fully funded under their original ARRA grant award. |
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Type of Request |
State Agency |
Amount |
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Existing SAM |
Montana |
$190,575 |
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MPSC |
$472,970 |
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Alaska |
$447,768 |
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Chickasaw Nation |
$3,380,132 |
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Arkansas |
$93,088 |
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Missouri |
$93,009 |
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TOTAL Existing SAM |
$4,677,542 |
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.NET Upgrade (ARRA started) |
Kansas |
$460,091 |
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Arizona |
$1,749,385 |
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TOTAL REGULAR MIS |
$2,209,476 |
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EBT Planning |
California |
$389,000 |
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Connecticut |
$290,950 |
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Indiana |
$40,000 |
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Iowa |
$388,897 |
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Maine |
$226,748 |
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New York |
$400,000 |
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Rhode Island |
$255,585 |
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Washington |
$740,649 |
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TOTAL EBT PLANNING |
$2,731,829 |
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EBT Implementation |
Oklahoma |
$1,725,188 |
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Virginia |
$6,033,196 |
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West Virginia |
$1,848,049 |
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TOTAL EBT IMPLEMENTATION |
$9,606,433 |
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Existing EBT |
Chickasaw Nation |
$1,495,887 |
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Kentucky |
$7,732,386 |
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Wyoming |
$150,378 |
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TOTAL EXISTING EBT |
$9,378,651 |
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Technical Standardization |
Alaska |
$133,089 |
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Michigan |
$495,253 |
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Washington |
$969,570 |
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TOTAL TECHNICAL STANDARDIZATION |
$1,597,912 |
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TOTAL FY 2010 TECHNOLOGY FUNDING* |
$30,201,843 |
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*Please note that the table above does not include the following recovered and reallocated ARRA funds awarded in FY 2010: |
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California $699,146 (Equipment) |
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Texas $998,780 (Equipment) |
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Kansas $2,501,555 (Multi-State .Net upgrade) |
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