79-9-203. Use of outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding.
(1) An eligible county that receives grant funding under Section: 79-9-201 shall use grant funding: to pay for any present or ongoing visitor-related emergency costs or visitor-related safety costs; to reimburse a provider of search and rescue efforts or emergency medical services for any past, unpaid services within the eligible county; to support the activities of a special district providing search and rescue efforts, emergency medical services, solid waste disposal, or road repair; as proposed in the eligible county's or eligible special district's application for grant funding; shall report to the division on the expenditures made with the grant funding by December 31 of each year in which grant funding is received or is unexpended; may not use grant funding to: supplant existing funds; or purchase real property or make payments toward the ownership or leasing of real property.
(2) If a grantee does not expend or encumber the funding within 18 months of the day on which the funding was received by the grantee due to a lack of need within the eligible county, the grantee: shall inform the division regarding the remaining grant funding; may retain the remaining grant funding until fully expended unless required by the division to return the remaining grant funding to the division; and may not apply for a new outdoor recreation mitigation grant until the grant funding is fully expended or returned.
(3) Upon receipt of unexpended outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding from a grantee, the division shall deposit the unexpended grant funding into the Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant Fund created in Section. 79-9-103