0001|                           SENATE BILL 278
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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|                          BEN D. ALTAMIRANO
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT ACQUISITION OF NEW MEXICO'S
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0012|     WATER ALLOCATION FROM THE GILA RIVER PURSUANT TO THE CENTRAL
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0013|     ARIZONA PROJECT.
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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 thousand dollars
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0017|     ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0018|     interstate stream commission for expenditure in fiscal years
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0019|     1999 and 2000 for the purpose of assessing the needs of small
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0020|     users in southwest New Mexico to support acquisition of
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0021|     eighteen thousand acre feet of Gila river water from the United
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0022|     States bureau of reclamation pursuant to the central Arizona
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0023|     project component of the federal Colorado River Basin Project
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0024|     Act.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the
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0025|     end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund.
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