SENATE BILL 821

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

INTRODUCED BY

Michael S. Sanchez

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO BEGIN WATER RIGHTS ADJUDICATION ON THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the office of the state engineer for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 and subsequent fiscal years to initiate water rights adjudications in the middle Rio Grande. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

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