0001|                           SENATE BILL 170
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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|                          FERNANDO R. MACIAS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND SALINITY FLOW STUDIES BY THE
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0012|     LOWER RIO GRANDE WATER USERS ORGANIZATION TO IDENTIFY SOURCES
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0013|     OF SALINITY BETWEEN CABALLO DAM AND SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY;
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0014|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand
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0018|     dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
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0019|     the local government division of the department of finance and
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0020|     administration for expenditure in fiscal years 1998 and 1999
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0021|     for the purpose of funding salinity flow studies to be
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0022|     conducted by the lower Rio Grande water users organization to
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0023|     identify sources of salinity between Caballo dam and southern
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0024|     Dona Ana county.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0025|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0001|     general fund.
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0002|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0003|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0004|     immediately.
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