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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Merced County is processing a programme that volition let vetted personnel, livestock producers, owner-operators, managers, and much to get constricted exigency entree to restricted areas during a disaster, according to the county's website.
The programme is called the Livestock Pass programme and it volition beryllium utilized during exigency situations.
The county's website says the programme volition supply a azygous mode of identifying vetted commercialized livestock producers, owner-operators, and managers to firefighting personnel, California Highway Patrol officers, sheriff's deputies, and different instrumentality enforcement and exigency personnel.
To person a "Livestock Pass" the individual's spot indispensable beryllium zoned arsenic cultivation and operated by a commercialized livestock producer, according to the Livestock Pass Application. The exertion specifies that a commercialized livestock shaper is an idiosyncratic oregon entity engaged successful the concern of raising animals for profit.
It besides says connected the exertion that each walk holder indispensable beryllium an owner, operator, oregon managerial worker oregon a adaptable commercialized livestock cognition with a moving cognition of the spot and entree to indispensable infrastructure.
According to the county's website, the possession of the Livestock Pass whitethorn let the rancher during a wildfire oregon akin catastrophe with constricted exigency areas to feed, water, oregon attraction for livestock sheltering-in-place oregon for evacuating livestock.
The region says they are looking for feedback from funny stakeholders to assistance them successful the improvement of this programme wrong the requirements of Section 2350, Division 2, Chapter 4, of the California Food and Agricultural Code.
Once developed, this programme volition beryllium brought earlier the Merced County Board of Supervisors for approval. After constitution by the Board, applications volition beryllium accepted, and mandatory grooming volition beryllium held anterior to issuance of the livestock pass.
The region officials are besides asking the assemblage for feedback and comments connected the improvement programme and 2 draught documents; the Merced County Livestock Pass Program and the Livestock Pass application.
Comments tin beryllium submitted by email to magpermit@countyofmerced.com. There volition besides beryllium 2 in-person opportunities to perceive a little instauration to the programme and feedback volition beryllium provided astatine the pursuing locations and times:
On July 17 astatine 6 p.m. astatine the Merced County Agricultural Complex Classroom located astatine 2145 Wardrobe Ave., Merced.
On July 18 astatine 6 p.m. astatine Los Banos Spring Fairgrounds successful the Germino Building located astatine 403 F St., Los Banos.
To RSVP successful advance, email magpermit@countyofmerced.com or telephone 209-385-7431.
