Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Food Desert Oasis Act of 2009 or HR 3100 (111th) was introduced on June 26th 2009 by Congressman Bobby Rush of [D-IL1]. The bill was introduced to establish the Food Desert Oasis Pilot Program, intended to combat food deserts. A food desert defined by the United States Department of Agriculture's Healthy Food Financing Initiative working group, is a "low income census tract where a substantial number of\r share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store." The bill identifies several US cities as food deserts, defines a qualified food desert business, grants certain tax benefits for those designated food deserts, amends the Food Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report on the health of such communities. The bill did not come to a vote and did not become law, but other federal initiatives have been created to address food deserts."@en }
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- Food_Desert_Oasis_Act_of_2009 abstract "The Food Desert Oasis Act of 2009 or HR 3100 (111th) was introduced on June 26th 2009 by Congressman Bobby Rush of [D-IL1]. The bill was introduced to establish the Food Desert Oasis Pilot Program, intended to combat food deserts. A food desert defined by the United States Department of Agriculture's Healthy Food Financing Initiative working group, is a "low income census tract where a substantial number of\r share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store." The bill identifies several US cities as food deserts, defines a qualified food desert business, grants certain tax benefits for those designated food deserts, amends the Food Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report on the health of such communities. The bill did not come to a vote and did not become law, but other federal initiatives have been created to address food deserts.".