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

SPONSOR Tripp

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/07/06

HB 467

SHORT TITLE NM Tech I-Casa Program

SB

ANALYST Earp

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

$300.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 467 appropriates $300,000 from the general fund to the Board of Regents of New

Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMTech) to support computer security efforts and

provide matching funds for federal contracts at the Institute for Complex Additive System

Analysis (ICASA).

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $300,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert

to the general fund. These funds would augment a recurring base appropriation of approximately

$523,000 contained in the General Appropriation Act for this program.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

This proposal was included among the special program funding requests submitted by NMTech

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to the Higher Education Department (HED) for review. However, this proposal was not included

in the HED fiscal year 2007 funding recommendations to the Legislature.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

These funds would augment an existing program at NMTech. No significant additional adminis-

trative impact is evident if this legislation is adopted.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

Information provided through HED indicates that the Institute for Complex Additive Systems

Analysis (ICASA) is a cooperative alliance among academia, industry, and government that

NMTech administers under contract with the Department of Defense along with the support of

the State of New Mexico. This alliance is dedicated to studying the behavior, vulnerabilities, and

predictability of complex systems through ICASA's unique approach, known as the Complex

Additive Systems Analysis (CASA) process. ICASA's basic research focus is to understand the

additive effects (or unintended consequences) of efficient design in interdependent systems of

systems, and applying this research to real-world problems.

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