(a) Applications; amount. — If a county has established a county farmland protection program, the authority shall distribute within sixty days after the end of its fiscal year at least eighty percent of that fiscal year's remaining funds to county farmland protection boards who have certified to the authority that there is then pending an application for one or more conservation or preservation easements. Each certification shall include:
(1) The name of each applicant for an easement and the date of each application for an easement during the fiscal year;