HOUSE BILL 282

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Terry T. Marquardt

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY OF THE FEASIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING A STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR WATER FROM THE TULAROSA CREEK IN OTERO COUNTY.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($365,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the interstate stream commission for expenditure in fiscal year 2005 for a study of the feasibility of constructing a reservoir on the Tularosa creek and a pipeline to deliver stored water to the Tularosa community ditch association in Otero county. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.

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