If on any particular proposed project or practice, the district determines that landowner assumption of all operation and maintenance responsibilities would constitute an undue burden upon such landowner or would not assure operation or maintenance adequate to protect such project or practice from failure, the district may agree to be or require that it be responsible for all or a part of such operation and maintenance and may prior to and as a condition for approval of an application for cost-share funds, require the landowner to provide the district with the right of access necessary to perform such operation or maintenance.
262 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 4, § 004