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SB 173: INTERSTATE MINING COMPACT ACT

An Act Relating To Mining; Enacting The Interstate Mining Compact Act To Provide For New Mexico's Entry To Membership On The Interstate Mining Compact Commission.

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MILD SB 173
INTERSTATE MINING COMPACT ACT

Legislative URL:
SB 173 on nmlegis.gov
Emergency Clause:
No
Germane:
Yes
Location:
Signed
Action:
[2] SCC/SCONC/SJC/SFC-SCC [4]germane-SCONC [10] DP/a-SJC [15] DP/a-SFC [18] DP [22] PASSED/S (27-10) [17] HJC [19] DP [20] PASSED/H (51-13) SGND BY GOV (Mar. 8) Ch. 74.
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Introduced
SCC Committee Report
SCONC Committee Report
SJC Committee Report
SFC Committee Report
Final Senate Vote
HJC Committee Report
Final House Vote
Fiscal Impact Report
Final Version
Summary

This bill enacts into law the Interstate Mining Compact and authorizes the governor to participate in the compact as a member of the Interstate Mining Compact commission. The governor may designate the Secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources or the Director of the Mining and Minerals Division of the EMNRD as the governor’s alternate to the commission.

 

The purposes of the compact are to:

(1) advance the protection and restoration of land, water, and other resources affected by mining;

(2) assist in the reduction or elimination or counteracting of pollution or deterioration of land, water, and air attributable to mining;

(3) encourage programs in each of the party states which will achieve comparable results in protecting, conserving, and improving the usefulness of natural resources;

(4) assist the party states in their efforts to facilitate the use of land and other resources affected by mining, so that such use may be consistent with sound land use, public health, and public safety, and to study and recommend techniques for improvement, restoration or protection of such land and resources; and

(5) assist in achieving and maintaining an efficient and productive mining industry and in increasing economic and other benefits attributable to mining.

 

A possible benefit of this bill might be better regulation of mining and more effective protection of the state’s air, land and water due to a constructive sharing of resources with other states through the compact.

 

On February 4 the Senate Conservation Committee amended SB 173 to strike both the findings and purpose section and another section authorizing the governor to exercise the power of the office of the governor to maintain the state in good standing as a member of the Interstate Mining Compact and commission, and authorizing the Legislature to withdraw from the Interstate Mining Compact by repeal of the Interstate Mining Compact Act.

 

A possible benefit of this bill might be better regulation of mining and more effective protection of the state’s air, land and water due to a constructive sharing of resources with other states through the compact.

 

On February 11 the Senate Judiciary Committee amended SB 173 to reinstate the section authorizing the governor to exercise the power of the office of the governor to maintain the state in good standing as a member of the Interstate Mining Compact and commission.

 

A possible benefit of this bill might be better regulation of mining and more effective protection of the state’s air, land and water due to a constructive sharing of resources with other states through the compact.