0001|                            HOUSE BILL 250
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            G. X. MCSHERRY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND SALINITY FLOW STUDIES TO BE
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0012|     CONDUCTED BY THE LOWER RIO GRANDE WATER USERS ORGANIZATION TO
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0013|     IDENTIFY SOURCES BETWEEN CABALLO DAM AND SOUTHERN DONA ANA
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0014|     COUNTY; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand
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0018|     dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0019|     local government division of the department of finance and
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0020|     administration for expenditure in fiscal years 1997 and 1998
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0021|     for the purpose of funding studies to be conducted by the lower
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0022|     Rio Grande water users organization, an organization comprised
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0023|     of government entities, to identify sources of salinity between
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0024|     Caballo dam and southern Dona Ana county.  Any unexpended or
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0025|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998
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0001|     shall revert to the general fund.
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0002|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0003|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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