11-5-406. Program participation requirements; application; funding participation levels specified; restriction on expenditures.

(a) Any state agency or political subdivision may apply to the committee for participation in emergency insect management programs under this article. Applications shall be filed with the department of agriculture and shall at minimum, substantiate compliance with standards and guidelines established by the committee.

(b) Emergency management program participation under this article shall be subject to the following requirements:

(i) Insect vector management programs or nonoutbreak insect programs shall receive not more than fifty percent (50%) of total program costs from the account;

(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) of this subsection, a reactive program for the suppression of outbreaks of grasshoppers, Mormon crickets or other outbreak insects on state and private lands shall receive not more than fifty percent (50%) of total program costs from the account;

(iii) If the emergency insect management program under paragraph (ii) of this subsection is for grasshopper suppression, the program shall consist of treatments targeting infestations greater than two thousand (2,000) acres or those suppressing less than the entire infestation regardless of size;

(iv) Subject to paragraph (v) of this subsection, a proactive, preventative program targeting incipient infestations of grasshoppers, Mormon crickets or other outbreak insects on state and private lands, with the potential to expand into outbreaks, shall receive not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of total program costs from the account;

(v) If the emergency insect management program under paragraph (iv) of this subsection is for grasshoppers, the program shall include up to two thousand (2,000) acres if the entire infestation is included within the program;

(vi) During the first three (3) years of operation of any emergency insect management program, not more than twenty percent (20%) of funds provided to the program from the account shall be used for administrative costs, equipment and mapping activities, and not more than ten percent (10%) of such funds shall be used for these purposes in subsequent years;

(vii) In addition to paragraph (vi) of this subsection and during the first three (3) years of program operation, not more than twenty percent (20%) of funds provided from the account to any program shall be expended for applied research specifically designed to provide immediate results directly in support of improved integrated pest management practices, and not more than ten percent (10%) of such funds may be used for this purpose in subsequent years.