(1) Counties eligible to apply for county ferry capital improvement funds are Pierce, Skagit, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom.

(2) For the project to be eligible it must be included in both the county's six-year transportation program and its ferry system fourteen-year long range capital improvement plan as described in WAC 136-400-040.

(3) Any county holding an approved and executed county ferry capital improvement program contract is ineligible to submit a project funding application for additional ferry capital improvement funds until the existing contract is fully performed or has been mutually terminated.