HOUSE BILL 165

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2020

INTRODUCED BY

Jack Chatfield

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE OF NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY TO STUDY GROUND WATER RESOURCES IN COLFAX, HARDING, MORA AND UNION COUNTIES.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal years 2021 and 2022 for the cooperative extension service to study the quantity and quality of ground water resources in Colfax, Harding, Mora and Union counties, with a focus on Colfax and Harding counties, for the purpose of determining appropriate land use in rural agricultural areas of those counties. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2022 shall revert to the general fund.

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