As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board" means the State Loan and Investment Board.
(b) "Director" means the Director of the Office of State Lands and Investments.
(c) "Office" means the Office of State Lands and Investments.
(d) "Eligible project costs" means total project cost, less ineligible project costs.
(e) "Energy development" means oil and gas development.
(f) "Energy impacted counties" means counties that the Board determines to be impacted by energy development in the Niobrara or similar formations. Counties included in this definition are: Campbell, Converse, Goshen, Hot Springs, Laramie, Natrona, Niobrara, Park, Platte and Washakie. In awarding grants, the Board shall consider (1) whether the county's total proposed energy impacted road project(s) exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the average total annual county expenditures for its road and bridge maintenance and construction expenditures for the preceding five (5) years; (2) whether the county has demonstrated that it has pursued alternative methods of funding including cost sharing from private sources; and (3) that the grant funds will not supplant existing funding levels from traditional sources.
(g) Energy impacted county road means a county dedicated and maintained road serving a site or sites, on which energy development has occurred, which requires construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or expansion as a result of energy development as determined by the Board.
(h) Road includes:
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