DRAFT
TENTATIVE AGENDA
for the
WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
November 26-28, 2007
Room 307
State Capitol
Monday, November 26
9:00 a.m. Call to Order
–Senator Phil Griego, Chair
Deep Water Development
–Mark Fesmire, Director, Oil Conservation Division, EMNRD
–Ned Godshall (invited)
–Peter White, Attorney
10:30 a.m. Acequia Legislation for Adjudication Reform
–David Benavidez, Attorney
–Paula Garcia, New Mexico Acequia Association
12:00 noon Lunch
1:30 p.m. Responses to Committee Questions and Adjudication Reform Issues
–John D’Antonio, State Engineer
–D.L. Sanders, General Counsel, OSE
–Greg Ridgely, Counsel, OSE
4:30 p.m. Recess
Tuesday, November 27
9:00 a.m. Proposed Legislation
–Pecos alternative water rights retirement method
–Utton Transboundary Center appropriation
–Precision Irrigation appropriation
–Water Adjudication Reform Memorial
10:30 a.m. Indian Water Rights Negotiations and Settlements
–Estevan Lopez, Director, Interstate Stream Commission
–John D’Antonio, State Engineer
–Victor Marshall
12:00 noon Lunch
1:30 p.m. Water Markets
–Lee Brown, Economist
3:00 p.m. Mutual Domestic Water Consumers’ Associations Critical Needs
–George Maestas, Rodarte Mutual Domestic Water Consumer’s Association (invited)
–Charlie Sanchez, Rodarte resident
–Rick Martinez, Department of Finance and Administration (invited)
4:30 p.m. Recess
Wednesday, November 28
9:00 a.m. Game and Forest Management Impacts;
Grazing Units and Damage on National Forest Allotments
–Mrs. Jimmy Goss, Rancher
–Charles Walker, Rancher
County Resource Management Programs
–Doug Moore, Chair, Otero County Commission (invited)
–Marty Moore, Otero County Manger (invited)
Game and Fish Department Programs
–Alfredo Montoya, Game Commission Member
–Bruce Thompson, Director, Game and Fish Department
Range Improvement Task Force
–John Fowler, Chair, RITF (invited)
Forest Management Policies
–TBA, U.S. Forest Service (invited)
–Butch Blazer, State Forester
12:00 noon Adjourn
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Ned A. Godshall is Founder and President/CEO of Altela, Inc., a new high-tech company developing a revolutionary new low-cost water desalination product. Altela removes the dissolved salts and other contaminants from brackish water (either aquifer or seawater) and water co-produced with natural gas and oil production and other industrial processes, therebyremoving the high costs and environmental liability of produced water disposal.
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Arthur “Butch” Blazer
New Mexico State Forester
Arthur “Butch” Blazer, New Mexico State Forester, is a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Elected to the tribal council in 1998, he served on the Executive Committee as Treasurer until the end of his 2nd term in 2002. Prior to his State appointment, Blazer held the position of Director of Planning and Development for the Tribe, working on several economic and social initiatives, including the development of a tribal fish hatchery. Blazer, 50, carries a 27-year career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to his new position with state government. With the BIA, he served in the capacity of a Range Specialist, the Albuquerque Area Natural Resources Manager, and as Agency Superintendent on two different reservations. In 1983, he co-founded the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (NAFWS), an organization now comprised of 230 member tribes and Alaskan villages; Blazer served as the President of NAFWS from 1997-2000. Recently, he was elected as Interim President of the newly established Southwestern Tribal Fish Commission. A graduate of New Mexico State University, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1975.