A.__Maintaining pest control and eradication activities of interstate significance by a party state at a level that would be reasonable for its own protection in the absence of this compact; and

B.__Meeting emergency outbreaks or infestations of interstate significance to no less an extent than would have been done in the absence of this compact.

2.__Requests. Whenever a party state is threatened by a pest not present within its borders but present within another party state, or whenever a party state is undertaking or engaged in activities for the control or eradication of a pest or pests and finds that such activities are or would be impracticable or substantially more difficult because of the failure of another party state to cope with infestation or threatened infestation, that state may request the governing board to authorize expenditures from the insurance fund for eradication or control measures to be taken by one or more of the other party states at a level sufficient to prevent or to reduce, to the greatest practicable extent, infestation or reinfestation of the requesting state. Upon authorization of the expenditures, the responding state or states shall take or increase eradication or control measures as warranted. A responding state shall use money made available from the insurance fund expeditiously and efficiently to assist in affording the protection requested.

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