A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to preserve and enhance the historic relationship between agriculture and school feeding programs by (1) maintaining and improving the role of the United States Department of Agriculture in carrying out the price support, surplus removal and other programs which are designed in part to increase the consumption of domestic agricultural commodities and prevent waste; (2) maintaining and improving the role of the United States Department of Agriculture in determining the specific commodities and the amounts, quality, and timing of purchases for use in school feeding programs; (3) improving the purchase, delivery and payment mechanisms for such domestic agricultural commodities by increasing the levels of State and local responsibility; (4) enabling schools to improve meal acceptability and reduce plate waste by providing for maximum local choice in menu planning in line with local needs and tastes within established meal guidelines and standards; (5) achieving substantial cost savings at the Federal, State and local levels by using regular commercial channels of trade; (6) providing assistance to the States and schools to develop improved food procurement, storage, and sanitation methods for school feeding programs; the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 are amended to provide for the issuance of commodity letters of credit by the United States Department of Agriculture for the purchase of domestic agricultural commodities by schools to carry out school feeding programs in lieu of the purchase, storage, transportation, handling, processing and distribution of said commodities to the States by the United States Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.