3.__Application. In order to apply for expenditures from the insurance fund, a requesting state must submit the following in writing:

A.__A detailed statement of the circumstances that occasion the request for invoking the compact;

B.__Evidence that the pest for which eradication or control assistance is requested constitutes a danger to an agricultural or forest crop, product, tree, shrub, grass or other plant having a substantial value to the requesting state;

C.__A statement of the extent of the present and projected program of the requesting state and its subdivisions, including full information as to the legal authority for the conduct of the program or programs and the expenditures being made or budgeted therefor, in connection with the eradication, control or prevention of introduction of the pest concerned;

D.__Proof that the expenditures being made or budgeted as detailed in paragraph C do not constitute a reduction of the effort for the control or eradication of the pest concerned or, if there is a reduction, the reasons that the level of the program detailed in paragraph C constitutes a normal level of pest control activity;

E.__A declaration as to whether, to the best of the requesting state's knowledge and belief, the conditions that in its view occasion the invoking of the compact in the particular instance can be abated by a program undertaken with the aid of money from the insurance fund in one year or less, or whether the request is for an installment in a program that is likely to continue for a longer period of time; and

F.__Any other information as the governing board requires consistent with this compact.