§ 1753. — Grazing advisory boards.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1753]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 35--FEDERAL LAND POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER IV--RANGE MANAGEMENT
Sec. 1753. Grazing advisory boards
(a) Establishment; maintenance
For each Bureau district office and National Forest headquarters
office in the sixteen contiguous Western States having jurisdiction over
more than five hundred thousand acres of lands subject to commercial
livestock grazing (hereinafter in this section referred to as
``office''), the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon the
petition of a simple majority of the livestock lessees and permittees
under the jurisdiction of such office, shall establish and maintain at
least one grazing advisory board of not more than fifteen advisers.
(b) Functions
The function of grazing advisory boards established pursuant to this
section shall be to offer advice and make recommendations to the head of
the office involved concerning the development of allotment management
plans and the utilization of range-betterment funds.
(c) Appointment and terms of members
The number of advisers on each board and the number of years an
adviser may serve shall be determined by the Secretary concerned in his
discretion. Each board shall consist of livestock representatives who
shall be lessees or permittees in the area administered by the office
concerned and shall be chosen by the lessees and permittees in the area
through an election prescribed by the Secretary concerned.
(d) Meetings
Each grazing advisory board shall meet at least once annually.
(e) Federal Advisory Committee Act applicability
Except as may be otherwise provided by this section, the provisions
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (86 Stat. 770) shall apply to
grazing advisory boards.
(f) Expiration date
The provisions of this section shall expire December 31, 1985.
(Pub. L. 94-579, title IV, Sec. 403, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2775; Pub.
L. 95-514, Sec. 10, Oct. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 1808.)
References in Text
The Federal Advisory Committee Act, referred to in subsec. (e), is
Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, as amended, which is set out
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-514 substituted ``sixteen contiguous
Western States'' for ``eleven contiguous Western States''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1752, 1904 of this title.
