SB 197 TAOS COUNTY WATER PROJECTS

Sen Roberto "Bobby" Gonzales

Actions: [2] SCC/SCONC/SFC-SCC-germane-SCONC [4] DP-SFC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

  Senate Bill 197 (SB 197) makes appropriations to the Department of the Environment and the Interstate Stream Commission for water projects in Taos County  

 
Analysis: Senate Bill 197 (SB 197) makes appropriations from the General Fund (GF) to Department of the Environment for expenditure in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 through FY 2028 in Taos County as follows:
Wastewater treatment facility
•	One million dollars ($1,000,000) Village of Questa;
•	Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) El Valle de los Ranchos WSD

Mitigation Well
•	One million eight hundred thousand dollars $1,800,000 Acequia del Monte del Rio Chiquito;
•	One million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) Llano Quemado Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association

Water System Improvements
•	Two million two hundred thousand dollars ($2,200,000) El Prado Water and Sanitation District (WSD) 

To the Interstate Stream Commission (ICC) for expenditure in fiscal years 2025 through 2028 in Taos County as follows:
Diversion dam
•	Three hundred eighty thousand dollars ($380,000) Citizen's Middle Ditch Association, Questa;
•	Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) Jose Cleofes Arellano Acequia Association, Amalia
•	Two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) Santa Barbara Ditch Association, Penasco;
•	Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) Los Cordovas Ditch Association;
•	One hundred eighty thousand dollars ($180,000) Los Lovatos Acequia Association;

Ditch Improvements Including Diversion Structures and Irrigation Pipelines
•	One million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) Llano Irrigation Company
•	Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) Rio Lucio Water Ditch Association;
•	Thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) Sanchez Ditch,  La Loma.

Flume Project
•	Thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) Trampas Ditch Association;
It prohibits these appropriations from being used to pay indirect project costs or to be subject
to a binding written agreement with a third party prior to the authorized state agency's approval to enter into that agreement. It defines unexpended balance 

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining within six months of completion of a project but no later than the end of FY 2028 reverts to the GF.
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 SB 197 relates to HBs 148, 201 and SB 185