(a) The division shall develop and implement a grant and cooperative agreement program to support the planning, acquisition, development, maintenance, administration, operation, enforcement, restoration, and conservation of trails, trailheads, areas, and other facilities associated with the use of off-highway motor vehicles, and programs involving off-highway motor vehicle safety or education. (b) When appropriated by the Legislature for grants and cooperative agreements, available funds shall be awarded in accordance with the following categories: (1) Operation and maintenance. (A) Fifty percent of the funds appropriated by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 5090.61 shall be expended solely for grants and cooperative agreements for the acquisition, maintenance, operation, planning, development, or conservation of authorized trails and facilities associated with the use of off-highway motor vehicles for recreation or motorized access to nonmotorized recreation. (B) Guidelines developed to implement this paragraph, pursuant to subdivision (d), shall at a minimum: (i) Give preference to applications that sustain existing authorized off-highway motor vehicle recreation opportunities. (ii) Give additional consideration to applications that improve facilities that provide motorized access to nonmotorized recreation opportunities. (C) Applications that would affect lands identified as inventoried roadless areas by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture are eligible for cooperative agreements under paragraph (1) if the application is for a project that does any of the following: (i) Realigns a forest system road or trail to prevent irreparable resource damage that arises from the design, location, use, or deterioration of a classified route and that cannot be mitigated by route maintenance. (ii) Reconstructs a national forest system road or trail to implement a route safety improvement project on a classified route determined to be hazardous on the basis of accident experience or accident potential on that route. (iii) Maintains a road or trail that is included in the National Forest System Roads and Trails on or before January 1, 2009. (D) Any unencumbered funds under this paragraph shall only be used in future grant cycles for purposes consistent with this paragraph. (2) Restoration. (A) Twenty-five percent of the funds appropriated by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 5090.61 shall be expended solely for grants and cooperative agreements for projects that restore or repair habitat damaged by either legal or illegal off-highway motor vehicle use. (B) The division shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Wildlife Conservation Board, a competitive grant and cooperative agreement program which shall be administered in accordance with this paragraph. (C) Funds identified in this paragraph shall be available for grants and cooperative agreements for projects that restore or repair habitat damaged by both legal and illegal off-highway motor vehicle use. (D) Eligible projects include: (i) Removal of a road or trail or restoration of an area associated with the rerouting and subsequent closure of a designated road or trail. (ii) Removal of roads or trails and the restoration of damaged habitats in any area that is not designated for motorized vehicle use. (iii) The removal of closed roads or trails, or a portion of a closed road or trail, that will help to prevent off-highway motor vehicle access to closed areas. (iv) Scientific and cultural studies regarding the impact of off-highway motor vehicle recreation not otherwise required by state or federal laws. (v) Planning to identify appropriate restoration techniques, strategies, and project implementation, including planning associated with environmental review. (vi) Restoration projects that generally improve and restore the function of natural resource systems damaged by motorized activities. (E) Eligible ap
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