Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-11-13: Grant program to mitigate costs

A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry

shall develop a grant program for the purpose of providing grants to

incorporated municipalities to mitigate extreme purchase costs,

extraordinary costs, or both, incurred by the incorporated

municipality's owned or controlled unregulated utility affected by

the extreme weather event that began February 7, 2021. To qualify

for a grant, the following requirements shall be met:

1. The incorporated municipality must show proof of extreme

purchase costs, extraordinary costs, or both incurred by the

incorporated municipality's owned or controlled unregulated utility;

2. The population of the incorporated municipality shall be no

greater than three thousand five hundred (3,500) persons according

to the most recent Federal Decennial Census or most recent annual

estimate of the population by the United States Census Bureau; and

3. The incorporated municipality's owned or controlled

unregulated utility has had no costs mitigated through

securitization as provided by Sections 9070 through 9081 of Title 74

of the Oklahoma Statutes.

B. The Department shall promulgate rules necessary for

determining the eligibility and priority of applicants for the

grants. In determining the priority of applicants, the Department

shall consider the implications of the extraordinary costs and

extreme purchase costs regarding the incorporated municipality's

solvency and the amount of the incorporated municipality's

extraordinary costs and extreme purchase costs on a per capita

basis.

C. On or before February 1, 2023, the Oklahoma Department of

Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall provide a report to the

Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of

the House of Representatives that includes the list of

municipalities who applied for the grant, the amount requested by

each municipality, municipalities that were awarded grants, the

amount of each grant awarded, and any other information the

Department determines to be necessary.