0001|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 30
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND
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0003|     SESSION, 1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                        TOM R. BENAVIDES
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0010|     
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO OPEN THE
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0013|     MANAGEMENT CONTRACT FOR LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY TO
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0014|     COMPETITIVE BIDDING AND ALLOW A CONSORTIUM THAT INCLUDES THE
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0015|     UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO AND OTHER ENTITIES REPRESENTING NEW
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0016|     MEXICO'S INTERESTS TO SUBMIT BIDS FOR THE CONTRACT.
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0017|     
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0018|       WHEREAS, the university of California has managed Los
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0019|     Alamos national laboratory (LANL) since 1943, earning as much as
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0020|     twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) annually from the
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0021|     contract; and
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0022|       WHEREAS, LANL is the fourth largest single employer in New
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0023|     Mexico, with more than nine thousand employees; and
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0024|       WHEREAS, the importance of LANL to New Mexico's economy is
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0025|     such that LANL's management should not be solely in the hands of
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0001|     an organization, the university of California, whose financial
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0002|     interests are clearly independent of the welfare of the state of
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0003|     New Mexico; and
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0004|       WHEREAS, many employees of LANL and residents of New Mexico
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0005|     believe the management of LANL is insensitive to the needs of
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0006|     New Mexico; and
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0007|       WHEREAS, New Mexico is largely populated by people of
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0008|     Spanish and Native American descent, and the university of
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0009|     California, as indicated by its repudiation of affirmative
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0010|     action on July 20, 1995, has shown disregard and indifference
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0011|     for concerns of minorities in general; and
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0012|       WHEREAS, the current LANL restructuring plan reflects
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0013|     disregard and indifference towards New Mexicans in particular,
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0014|     since most employees in the recent layoffs were native New
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0015|     Mexicans of Spanish descent; and   
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0016|       WHEREAS, the state of New Mexico might earn as much as
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0017|     fifteen to twenty million dollars in management fees as a member
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0018|     of a management consortium, a large sum considering the state's
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0019|     current budget problems; and
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0020|       WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico has imminent
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0021|     scientific and administrative capabilities reflected by the
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0022|     caliber of its faculty in the engineering school, the
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0023|     engineering research institute, the Robert O. Anderson school of
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0024|     business and other science and management-related departments;
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0025|     and
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0001|       WHEREAS, a consortium composed of the university of
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0002|     California, the university of New Mexico and perhaps expertise
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0003|     from other New Mexico-based institutions might strengthen LANL's
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0004|     role in the nation's scientific and defense community, serve the
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0005|     economic needs of northern New Mexico and stimulate greater
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0006|     opportunities for technology transfer and business spinoffs
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0007|     throughout the state's economy;
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0008|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0009|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the United States department of energy
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0010|     be requested to open the management contract of Los Alamos
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0011|     national laboratory to competitive bidding when the contract
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0012|     expires in 1997; and
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0013|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the university of New Mexico be
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0014|     requested to negotiate with the university of California and
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0015|     other New Mexico institutions to form a consortium to bid on the
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0016|     LANL management contract; and
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0017|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the rehiring of layoff LANL
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0018|     employees be a central component of the consortium's bid; and
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0019|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0020|     transmitted to the secretary of the department of energy, the
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0021|     president of the university of New Mexico, the chancellor of the
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0022|     university of California and New Mexico's congressional
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0023|     delegation. 
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0024|                                    
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0001|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0002|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0005|                                             February 10, 1996
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0006|   
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0007|   Mr. President:
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0008|   
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0009|     Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0010|   
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0011|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 30
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0012|   
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0013|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0014|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0015|   
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0016|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0017|   
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0020|                              __________________________________
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0021|                              Gloria Howes, Chairman 
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0025|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0001|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0005|                     Date ________________________
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0008|   The roll call vote was <u> 7 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0009|   Yes:  7
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0010|   No:        0
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0011|   Excused:   EJennings, Wray
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0012|   Absent:    0
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