0001|                            HOUSE BILL 368
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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|                           MIGUEL P. GARCIA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION; PROVIDING FOR A STUDY AND
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0012|     DEMONSTRATION BY THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS OF THE
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0013|     FEASIBILITY OF CONVERTING STATE-OWNED VEHICLES FROM GASOLINE
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0014|     POWER TO RENEWABLE ENERGY POWER; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  RENEWABLE ENERGY POWERED VEHICLES--
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0018|     DEMONSTRATION AND STUDY--APPROPRIATION.--
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0019|               A.  The commissioner of public lands shall conduct
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0020|     a study and a practical demonstration of the feasibility of
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0021|     converting state-owned automobiles and vans from gasoline
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0022|     power to renewable energy power, including hydrogen batteries
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0023|     and hydrogen fuel cells.  The study shall include a cost-
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0024|     benefit analysis that considers life cycle costing and the
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0025|     costs of environmental degradation associated with gasoline
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0001|     vehicles.  The commissioner shall submit his study and
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0002|     recommendations to the second session of the forty-fourth
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0003|     legislature.
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0004|               B.  One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000)
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0005|     is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of
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0006|     public lands for expenditure in fiscal years 1999 and 2000 for
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0007|     the purposes of carrying out the provisions of Subsection A of
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0008|     this section.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0009|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the
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0010|     general fund.
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