To provide for a general welfare, public peace, health and safety
of the citizens of Otero County, emergency passage of this article
is required to protect the economic base upon which this County and
its citizens depend.
The Public Rangelands Improvement Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1901
et seq., shall be adopted as a County ordinance by the County Commissioners
of Otero County, New Mexico.
The procedures set forth in the Public Rangelands Improvement
Act and accompanying Memorandum of Understanding, as modified by this
article, shall govern all actions involving the federal agencies of
the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service
and either an individual or group of livestock grazing permittee(s)
or lessee(s), including, but not necessarily limited to, the issuance
of a grazing permit(s) or lease(s) from one party to another, the
creation or revision of an allotment management plan, and other like
actions or as requested by the permittee(s) or lessee(s).