As in effect on May 1, 2008
(A) This rule is promulgated under authority of 4-20-9 and Subsections 4-2-2(1)(f) and 4-2- 2(1)(j).
(B) By this rule, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Food of the State of Utah hereby reinstates the Grazing Advisory Boards, which the Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America has failed to recharter as of July 1, 1994. The reinstated boards will direct the expenditure of the funds collected by the Secretary of the Interior under the Taylor Grazing Act, as enacted by Congress in Section 43-USC-315.
(1) Upon the effective date of this rule, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Food hereby reinstates the grazing advisory boards as presently constituted.
(2) The boards shall hereby be chartered as State of Utah Grazing Advisory Boards.
(3) If a vacancy occurs during the term of a board member, existing board members shall present to the commissioner nominations to fill that vacancy.
(4) Pursuant to section 4-20-9, or until the Secretary of the Interior reinstates the grazing advisory boards, replacement boards shall be appointed in the following way:
(a) Legal notice in publication of general circulation soliciting the name of persons who desire a position of board member, and asking for a written request from such persons to be submitted to the existing board.
(b) Existing board members of each board will act as a nominating committee for that board. The chairman of each board will thereafter present to the commissioner all nominations for each board position to be filled.
(c) The commissioner will review the names and appoint persons to fill the vacancies on the board. The commissioner may ask for other names if needed. The board members will be a group of stockmen and permittees within a particular grazing district, and represent resource areas of that district.
(5) Each chartered State Grazing Board shall choose officers to administer the board's functions in the respective grazing districts.
(6) The board may appoint affected interested parties as ex-officio members to serve with the board.
(7) Pursuant to the requirements of 4-20-5, each State Grazing Board shall direct the expenditures of budgeted funds for each respective grazing district.
(8) Within six months of the Secretary of the Interior's resumption of appointments to a state grazing advisory board, the commissioner may repromulgate this rule to provide for an orderly transition.
agriculture associations, grazing
September 17, 1996
July 30, 2003
4-20-9; 4-2-2(1)(f); 4-2-2(1)(j)
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