HOUSE BILL 1204

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Irvin Harrison

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SURVEY OF URANIUM MINES IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND COMPLETION OF AN ASSESSMENT TO CLOSE EXISTING URANIUM MINES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for a nonprofit group to conduct a survey of uranium mines in northwest New Mexico and to complete an assessment to close existing uranium mines. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

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