1. a) The practices, policies, specifications, components eligible for cost-sharing, the maximum cost allowed for each component and the cost-share rate for each enduring practice, structure or device shall be established annually by the Department and published in a Cost-Sharing Participating Schedule. The State cost-sharing rate shall not exceed the cost-sharing rate allowed for each component. No cost-sharing funds shall be available for land which does not exceed "T" value. The annual maximum dollar limit for cost-sharing per person shall not exceed the maximum allowable amount as established in the Cost-Sharing Participating Schedule.
2. b) In determining the practices to be cost-shared and the rates and amounts to be set and published in the Cost-Sharing Participating Schedule, the Department shall consider the number of acres needing land treatment, type of treatment needed, the extent of a practices' adaptability in the state, funds available in the Department's budget as granted by the legislative process and signed by the Governor, cost of materials, labor, etc., the amount a practice reduces soil losses versus the cost of the practice, and other pertinent matters which may affect the establishment of the practices and their cost-share rates.

(Source: Amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 5482, effective April 15, 1982)