SENATE BILL 228

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Ben D. Altamirano

FOR THE WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BENEFICIAL USE OF GILA RIVER WATER PURSUANT TO THE ARIZONA WATER SETTLEMENTS ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Four million six hundred thousand dollars ($4,600,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the interstate stream commission for expenditure in fiscal years 2008 through 2014 to comply with the requirement in the 2004 Arizona Water Settlements Act to consider the impacts to endangered species and the environment, protect the invaluable ecology of the Gila river basin in New Mexico and create by 2014 a plan that maximizes beneficial use of New Mexico's water pursuant to that act. The interstate stream commission shall make annual reports to the appropriate interim committee of the legislature on the status of planning resulting from this appropriation. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2014 shall revert to the general fund.

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