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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Griego

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/14/07

HB

SHORT TITLE STUDY ACEQUIA CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM SB 1032

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$25.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 1032 appropriates $25.0 to the Local Government Division so the State Acequia

Commission can convene and coordinate a task force to study the acequia construction program

of the Interstate Stream Commission.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $25.0 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund. Any

unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the General

Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

SB 1032 appropriates $25.0 to the Local Government Division so the State Acequia Commission

can convene and coordinate a task force to study the acequia construction program of the

Interstate Stream Commission. The task force is to include the nonprofit state acequia

association, the natural resources conservation service, the army corps of engineers, the New

Mexico association of conservation districts and the interstate stream commission. Its charge is

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to study the acequia construction program of the interstate stream commission and make

recommendations to the legislature.

DFA reports that one option the task force may wish to consider is to evaluate requests for

capital outlay funding of ditch improvements on technical merits by engineers at the ISC but

manage contractual monies through DFA. The task force, if it exercised this option, would offer

a microcosm of the need for overall capital outlay reform.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Relates to SB which appropriates $130.0 to the Local Government Division to provide staff

support to the State's Acequia Commission

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