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HOUSE BILL 482
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
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2025
INTRODUCED BY
Susan K. Herrera and Kathleen Cates and Anita Gonzales
and Michelle Paulene Abeyta and Raymundo Lara
AN ACT
RELATING TO WATER; CREATING A COMMUNITY WATER AND WASTEWATER
SYSTEM ASSISTANCE PILOT PROJECT; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] COMMUNITY WATER AND WASTEWATER
SYSTEM ASSISTANCE PILOT PROJECT--CREATED.--
A. The "community water and wastewater system
assistance pilot project" is created as a three-year pilot
project to support statewide technical assistance providers
that support public community water and public community
wastewater systems.
B. The community water and wastewater system
assistance pilot project shall be administered by the local
government division of the department of finance and
administration.
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C. A community water or wastewater system that
participates in the community water and wastewater system
assistance pilot project shall receive assistance, as needed,
with technical, financial and managerial operations.
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--Nine hundred thousand dollars
($900,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local
government division of the department of finance and
administration for expenditure in fiscal years 2026 through
2028 for the community water and wastewater assistance pilot
project. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at
the end of fiscal year 2028 shall revert to the general fund.
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