(a) The Department shall manage the Program.(b) Each administering agency shall:(1) provide emergency food providers with information about the Program, including Program guidelines and fund availability;(2) accept and process requests for funding assistance from emergency food providers; and(3) allocate funding to emergency food providers based on the procedures approved in the administering agency's grant application under § 6-413 of this subtitle.(c) An emergency food provider that receives a Program grant shall: (1) use the grant to purchase food for distribution to needy individuals;(2) as a condition of distributing food, provide to needy individuals information, developed in collaboration with the Department, that encourages self-sufficiency consistent with the goals of the Family Investment Program established under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of this article;(3) distribute information on the State's earned income tax credit established under § 10-704 of the Tax - General Article; and(4) submit a report to the Department and the administering agency detailing how the grant was used and how many units of service were provided.