The summer food service program for children, authorized by the National School Lunch Act is one of several childfeeding programs which the Congress authorized to safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children. Serious abuses, criminal as well as administrative, have occurred in the summer feeding program. Most have involved private nonprofit organizations which comprised three-fourths of the program's sponsors. Public agency sponsors operated programs relatively free of abuses. The Department of Agriculture revised the program's regulations to try to prevent abuses. The General Accounting Office (GAO) is recommending additional changes covering sponsor and site selection and termination, contracting procedures, state staffing and monitoring, sponsor recordkeeping, and advances of funds. Many of these changes would not be necessary if only schools and public agencies were permitted to be sponsors. GAO is recommending that the program's authorizing legislation be revised to authorize only schools and public agencies as sponsors. GAO is also recommending legislative changes dealing with adminstrative funds for states and sponsors, definitions of eligible sponsors and children, the number of food services allowed each day, and the issuance of program regulations. (Author/JM)