262 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 3, § 004
Except for funds to be obligated by the Commission in accordance with Chapter 2, Section 001, Subsection 001.03, applications for cost-sharing assistance from the Fund cannot be approved by the district board of directors unless it determines that federal funds were not available for the proposed project or practice at the time the application was submitted by the landowner. Federal funds shall be deemed to be unavailable in the county where the land is located if all such funds then available for obligation in such county through federal cost-sharing programs have been obligated or if the particular project or practice proposed is not eligible for federal cost-sharing funds in that county but is eligible for state cost-sharing assistance. Federal cost-sharing funds shall also be deemed to be unavailable to the extent that the maximum allowable dollar amount available from a federal cost-sharing program to individual landowners in a given year has limited or will limit the landowner's federal cost-share payment to an amount less than that to which such landowner would have been entitled in the absence of such a dollar limitation. In the event of the utilization of both state and federal cost-share funds on the same project or practice, the state cost-share funds provided to the landowner shall not exceed the amount which ineligible contributors are authorized to provide by federal regulations and operating procedures.
262 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 3, § 004