NOTICE OF SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE
1. Agency Information
Agriculture and Food, Conservation Commission
Taylorsville State Office Building, South Building, Floor 2
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6500
2. Contact Persons
Please address questions regarding information on this notice to the persons listed above.
3. General Information
A. Rule or section catchline:
R64-2. Conservation Commission Electronic Meetings
B. Purpose of the new rule or reason for the change:
The Department of Agriculture and Food (department) is amending this rule as part of a comprehensive review of all administrative rules, aiming to remove redundant information found in statute, and in another rule.
Rule R51-7, Open and Public Meetings Act Electronic Meetings, provides the information required for public bodies created within Title 4, Utah Agricultural Code.
C. Summary of the new rule or change:
This filing repeals this rule in its entirety because the statute makes the information redundant, and Rule R51-7 governs the relevant information for the Conservation Commission electronic meetings.
5. Fiscal Information
Provide an estimate and written explanation of the aggregate anticipated cost or savings to:
This filing does not have an impact on the state's budget because the requirements are not changing.
This filing does not have an impact on local governments because the requirements are not changing.
C. Small businesses ("small business" means a business employing 1-49 persons):
This filing does not have an impact on small businesses because the requirements are not changing.
D. Non-small businesses ("non-small business" means a business employing 50 or more persons):
This filing does not have an impact on non-small businesses because the requirements are not changing.
E. Persons other than small businesses, non-small businesses, state, or local government entities ("person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or public or private organization of any character other than an agency):
This filing does not have an impact on other persons because the requirements are not changing.
F. Compliance costs for affected persons:
The compliance costs are not changing.
6. Regulatory Impact Summary TableEnter the cost or savings in the relevant cell. If there is no cost or savings, enter, "$0." If a cost or savings is inestimable, enter, "inestimable."
7. Regulatory Impact Analysis Approval
The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Food, Kelly Pehrson, has reviewed and approved this regulatory impact analysis.
8. Family Impact Information
A. The agency has considered this rule's impact on family health, stability, and formation:
9. Citation Information
Provide citations to the statutory authority for the rule. If there is also a federal requirement for the rule, provide a citation to that requirement:
11. Public Notice Information
The public may submit written or oral comments to the agency identified in box 1.
A. Comments will be accepted until:
12. Effective Date Information
This rule change MAY become effective on:
(NOTE: This is the date the agency anticipates making the filing effective. It is NOT the effective date)
13. Agency Authorization Information
Agency head or
designee and title:
Kelly Pehrson, Commissioner
R64. Agriculture and Food, Conservation Commission.
[R64-2. Conservation Commission Electronic Meetings. R64-2-1. Authority and Purpose. (1) Section 52-4-207 requires any public body that convenes or conducts an electronic meeting to have a rule in place governing the use of electronic meetings. This rule establishes procedures for conducting Conservation Commission meetings by electronic means. (2) This rule is enacted under the authority of Sections 52-4-207, and 4-18-105. The definitions found in Section 52-4-103 apply to this rule. In addition, the following definitions apply: (1) "Commission" means the Utah Conservation Commission. (2) "Electronic meeting" includes any meeting where at least one member of the public body participates in the public meeting by telephonic or other electronic means. (3) "Meeting" means a meeting of the public body that is required to be public by Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act. R64-2-3. Public Notice and Public Participation. (1) If commission members constituting a voting majority intend to participate in a meeting electronically or by telephone, public notice of the electronic meeting shall be posted. (2) The public notice shall specify the anchor location where the members of the commission not participating electronically or by telephone will be meeting and where interested persons and the public may attend, monitor, and participate in the open portions of the meeting. 
