HOUSE BILL 5

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH.

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the "Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act".

     SECTION 2. DEFINITION.--As used in the Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act, "federal funds" means payments by the United States government to state government or state agencies, except those payments made in accordance with the federal Mineral Leasing Act and the federal State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.

     SECTION 3. FORMAT.--The general format of the appropriations set forth in the Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act, with respect to symbols used, column headings and stating of amounts, is that used in the General Appropriation Act of 2012.

     SECTION 4. FISCAL YEAR 2014 APPROPRIATIONS.--

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                General  State   Interagency  Federal Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer     Funds   Target

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH

(1) Field Operations:

The purpose of the field operations program is to promote and assist the implementation of law enforcement, habitat and public outreach programs throughout the state.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

    employee benefits  5,912.2                 210.7 6,122.9

(b) Contractual services  72.3                          72.3

(c) Other              1,671.6                       1,671.6

Authorized FTE: 96.00 Permanent

(a) Outcome: Number of conservation office hours spent in the field checking for compliance                        30,000

(b) Outcome: Number of hunter and conservation education programs delivered by field staff                       350

(c) Outcome: Number of special field operations to deter, detect and apprehend off-highway vehicle and game and fish violators                                                45

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                General  State   Interagency  Federal Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer     Funds   Target

(2) Conservation services:

The purpose of the conservation services program is to provide information and technical guidance to any person wishing to conserve and enhance wildlife habitat and recover indigenous

species of threatened and endangered wildlife.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

employee benefits       4,491.3               4,947.1 9,438.4

(b) Contractual        1,407.5               1,720.3 3,127.8

    services

(c) Other              3,498.1               4,624.0 8,122.1

(d) Other financing uses  45.0                 452.3   497.3

Authorized FTE: 141.00 Permanent; 10.00 Term; 3.00 Temp

Performance Measures:

(a) Outcome: Number of days of elk hunting

     opportunity provided to New Mexico resident

    hunters on an annual basis                       167,000

(b) Outcome: Percent of public hunting licenses

drawn by New Mexico resident hunters86%

(c) Output: Annual output of fish from the

department's hatchery system, in pounds 455,000

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                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency  Federal Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer     Funds   Target

(3) Wildlife depredation and nuisance abatement:

The purpose of the wildlife depredation and nuisance abatement program is to provide complaint administration and intervention processes to private landowners, leaseholders and other New Mexicans so they may be relieved of, and precluded from, property damage and annoyances or risks to public safety caused by protected wildlife.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

employee benefits280.4280.4

(b) Contractual services 125.7                         125.7

(c) Other                634.3                         634.3

Authorized FTE: 4.00 Permanent

Performance Measures:

(a) Outcome: Percent of depredation complaints resolved

    within the mandated one-year time frame               90%

(4) Program Support:

The purpose of program support is to provide an adequate and flexible system of direction, oversight, accountability and support to all divisions so they may successfully attain planned outcomes for all department programs.

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                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency  Federal Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer     Funds   Target

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and                         

employee benefits3,792.0116.23,908.2

(b) Contractual services 569.9                          569.9

(c) Other              3,021.2                        3,021.2

Authorized FTE: 55.00 Permanent

Subtotal               25,521.5             12,070.6  37,592.1

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