0001|                            HOUSE BILL 54
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          PAULINE K. GUBBLES
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN ORPHAN SITES TECHNOLOGY
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0012|     DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--Four hundred fifty thousand
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0016|     dollars ($450,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
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0017|     the board of regents of New Mexico state university for
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0018|     expenditure in fiscal year 1999 for the purpose of creating an
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0019|     orphan sites technology development program.  The program will
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0020|     establish a testing, verification and ranking system for
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0021|     selection and application of new technologies for reduction,
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0022|     remediation and prevention of nitrate contamination.  The
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0023|     program will be implemented by the waste-management education
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0024|     and research consortium, administratively located at New
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0025|     Mexico state university.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0001|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert
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0002|     to the general fund.
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