0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 31
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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|                              JOHN PINTO
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND
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0012|     THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO GIVE PRIORITY TO
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0013|     CERTAIN NEEDED ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, infrastructure is a vital link in the economic
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0016|     development master plan for New Mexico; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, the senate is committed to advancing the state's
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0018|     economic development prospects by improving the state's
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0019|     highway and transportation system; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, the state highway and transportation
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0021|     department's funds may be available in fiscal year 1999 to
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0022|     meet these needs; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, annual federal highway funding authorizations
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0024|     and reauthorizations result in hundreds of millions of dollars
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0025|     available to New Mexico for highway construction and
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0001|     improvements; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, through various treaties and acts of congress,
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0003|     the federal government has promised Indian tribes certain
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0004|     goods and services, one of which is transportation services,
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0005|     to serve the social and economic needs of Indian tribes; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, Indian tribes are totally dependent on the
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0007|     federal transportation programs for their transportation needs
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0008|     due to federal law denying Indian tribes eligibility to
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0009|     administer federal highway trust funds directly or to receive
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0010|     a portion of fuel tax revenue collected on Indian reservations
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0011|     for transportation purposes; and
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0012|          WHEREAS, there is a critical need to improve
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0013|     transportation services on the Indian reservations throughout
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0014|     the United States to promote economic development, improve
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0015|     health care, enhance education and increase employment; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, local governments must participate with at least
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0017|     ten percent of the costs of the projects enumerated within
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0018|     this memorial, and these projects are contingent upon local
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0019|     governments obtaining the required rights of way for the
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0020|     specified projects enumerated in this memorial and upon all
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0021|     projects being under contract by the end of fiscal year 1998;
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0022|     and
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0023|          WHEREAS, the projects listed below are to be regarded
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0024|     with equal priority; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, the projects are as follows:
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0001|               A.  In McKinley county:
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0002|                    (1)  improvements to the road to the
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0003|     university of New Mexico Gallup campus;
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0004|                    (2)  feasibility study for a bypass on the
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0005|     north side of Gallup;
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0006|                    (3)  improvements to four miles of United
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0007|     States highway 666 between mile markers 65 and 69;
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0008|                    (4)  plan, design and construct the Deer
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0009|     Springs road near Mexican Springs;
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0010|                    (5)  plan, design and construct the Coyote
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0011|     canyon road;
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0012|                    (6)  plan, design and construct the Rainbow
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0013|     Trail road near Panatella;
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0014|                    (7)  plan, design and construct the Red Willow
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0015|     road, N7113, near Tohatchi;
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0016|                    (8)  rights of way and clearances for the
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0017|     Pipeline road;
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0018|                    (9)  plan, design and construct Johnson and
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0019|     Tohlakai roads;
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0020|                    (10)  plan, design and construct Nenahnezad
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0021|     and San Juan chapter bus routes;
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0022|                    (11)  plan, design and construct Twin Lakes
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0023|     east road, N9659;
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0024|                    (12)  plan, design and construct a road
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0025|     between New Mexico highway 264 and Rock Springs; and
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0001|                    (13)  archaeological clearances and
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0002|     environmental assessment of the Rio Lobo canyon road to the
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0003|     Kerr-McGee uranium mine; and
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0004|               B.  in San Juan county:
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0005|                    (1)  improvements to the San Juan chapter
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0006|     school bus routes;
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0007|                    (2)  feasibility study on widening and
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0008|     improving the Upper Fruitland chapter road;
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0009|                    (3)  complete phase 4 street lighting in the
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0010|     community of Shiprock;
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0011|                    (4)  improvements to four miles of United
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0012|     States highway 666 between mile markers 65 and 69 in the
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0013|     Sanostee chapter area;
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0014|                    (5)  improvements to ten miles of the road
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0015|     from the table Mesa area and area three in the Sanostee
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0016|     chapter area;
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0017|                    (6)  improve the Sanostee chapter road through
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0018|     Hidden valley to Wheatfields;
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0019|                    (7)  plan, design and construct the Crystal
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0020|     community road;
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0021|                    (8)  rights of way and clearances to county
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0022|     road 7750 near Lake Valley;  
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0023|                    (9)  plan, design and construct the access
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0024|     road and parking area at Crystal;
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0025|                    (10)  rights of way and clearances for N571
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0001|     near Rattlesnake;
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0002|                    (11)  rights of way and clearances for N5012
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0003|     and N5010 from Sanostee to Mitten Rock;
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0004|                    (12)  rights of way and clearances for N69 in
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0005|     the Naschitti chapter area;
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0006|                    (13)  plan, design and construct N9652 between
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0007|     Naschitti road and White Rock;
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0008|                    (14)  improvements to school bus routes,
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0009|     including N5010, in the Sanostee chapter area;
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0010|                    (15)  rights of way and clearances for N5031
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0011|     at Hogback;
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0012|                    (16)  plan, design and construct school bus
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0013|     routes in the Nenahnezad and San Juan chapter areas;
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0014|                    (17)  plan, design, and construct N69, the
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0015|     Naschitti east loop road;
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0016|                    (18)  plan, design and construct school bus
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0017|     routes in the Naschitti area; and
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0018|                    (19)  improvements to school bus routes in the
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0019|     Red Valley area;
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0020|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0021|     OF NEW MEXICO that the state highway and transportation
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0022|     department be directed to use unexpended funds from the state
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0023|     road fund in fiscal year 1999 in the above-described manner
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0024|     for the purposes listed herein; and
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0025|          BE IF FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0001|     sent to the secretary of highway and transportation, each
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0002|     member of the state highway commission, each member of the New
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0003|     Mexico congressional delegation and the secretary of the
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0004|     federal department of transportation.
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0005|                              
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