0001|                        HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 7
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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|                           NICK L. SALAZAR
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0008|     FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
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0009|     
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     RECOGNIZING LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR ITS
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0012|     CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE'S ECONOMY THROUGH PROCUREMENT FROM
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0013|     LOCAL AND REGIONAL BUSINESSES.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory has implemented
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0017|     an aggressive procurement outreach program, purchasing
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0018|     products and services from small, disadvantaged and woman-
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0019|     owned businesses; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, the program has provided tremendous benefits to
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0021|     the economy of northern New Mexico and the entire state; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, procurement in New Mexico by the laboratory in
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0023|     fiscal year 1997 totaled four hundred two million dollars
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0024|     ($402,000,000), which is fifty-seven percent of the
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0025|     laboratory's procurement budget, and many of those business
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0001|     contracts are for multiple years, which creates a stable
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0002|     regional economy; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, that amount is an increase of almost forty
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0004|     million dollars ($40,000,000) from fiscal year 1996; and
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0005|          WHEREAS, the laboratory continues to expand its outreach
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0006|     and regional purchasing strategies and to foster mutual
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0007|     understanding and trust between the northern New Mexico
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0008|     business community and the laboratory through its creation of
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0009|     the northern New Mexico procurement advisory committee, which
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0010|     is composed of laboratory representatives, university of
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0011|     California administrative personnel and regional business
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0012|     leaders; and
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0013|          WHEREAS, the laboratory's small business office also
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0014|     promotes small business procurement through its many efforts,
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0015|     including providing training to businesses on understanding
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0016|     the laboratory's procurement procedures and providing
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0017|     assistance to local economic development groups;
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0018|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0019|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that it recognize the tremendous positive
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0020|     impact that Los Alamos national laboratory's procurement
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0021|     policies have on the state's economic development, both
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0022|     regionally and statewide; and
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0023|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0024|     sent to the director of Los Alamos national laboratory, the
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0025|     governor and the secretary of economic development, the
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0001|     speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro
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0002|     tempore of the senate.
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