0001|                            HOUSE BILL 58
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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. GUBBELS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR REGIONAL WATER PLANNING FOR
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0012|     SANDOVAL, BERNALILLO, VALENCIA AND SOCORRO COUNTIES; DECLARING
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0013|     AN EMERGENCY.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand
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0017|     dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
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0018|     the interstate stream commission for expenditure in fiscal
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0019|     years 1998 and 1999 for the purpose of funding regional water
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0020|     studies in Sandoval, Bernalillo, Valencia and Socorro
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0021|     counties.  The money appropriated shall be expended for a
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0022|     cost-sharing agreement with the United States army corps of
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0023|     engineers pursuant to its planning assistance to the state
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0024|     regional water planning program.  The studies shall be to
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0025|     determine the water planning needs of the four counties; to
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0001|     compile background information, map products and historical
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0002|     water use in each of the counties in accordance with the
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0003|     regional water planning handbook of the commission; and to
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0004|     provide necessary information to initiate a regional water
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0005|     plan pursuant to Sections 72-14-43 and 72-14-44 NMSA 1978. 
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0006|     Work undertaken pursuant to this appropriation shall be
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0007|     planned and coordinated in advance with entities pursuing
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0008|     regional water planning by or on behalf of the counties.  Any
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0009|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0010|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund.
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0011|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0012|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0013|     immediately.
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