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• And so, we've mapped that out, we've done a lot of work, and when you add the acequias as well as the
• watersheds that feed those acequias, the entire National Forest is a major player in providing those
• acequias.
• So, we're constantly having to rebuild our acequias.
• I believe that acequias are really the backbone of our communities.

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• They're really taking over our acequias.
• They make their dens along the the banks of the acequias.
• So it's costing the acequias a lot of money to have that control.
• So they need to collaborate with the acequias because they're costing the acequias a lot of money.
• On the acequia project, most acequias need a full board.

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• Larger acequias have access to funding.
• Okay, I was just wondering because there is an acequia association in the North Valley in Albuquerque
• Then, it would probably be the agency that would likely apply on behalf of the Acequia Association.
• I would recommend that the Acequia Association.
• The actual Acequia Association is a non-profit qualified, but acequias are qualified for the funding;

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• I do think that land grants and acequias are very similar.
• In fact, for a minute, I was the treasurer of my acequia.
• , look, if that acequia is in my district, It's fair game, right?
• DLA is an office holder with the acequia.
• I bet you there's somebody on staff who's an acequia board member, a land grant person.

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• So they can use the well or the acequia, whatever is available.
• By chance, do you know the name of the acequia? Madam Chair, not offhand.
• The event is sponsored by the Acequia Association, La Asociación de los Acequias del Valle de Mora, the
• Acequia de la Isla, Acequia de San Jose, the Rio de las Gallinas Acequia Association, and the Cow Creek
• All of the acequias up in this area and the acequia association are putting on this dinner for us.

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• The Acequia manages who gets the water distributed, and we very rarely go within issues in an Acequia
• We very rarely go within issues in an Acequia for diversion.
• So, we almost never go within an Acequia and look at policing individual diversions within the Acequia
• as long as the Acequia itself is taking water as it should.
• Within an Acequia, we look at policing individual diversions as long as the Acequia itself is taking

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• It's hard to say if the acequia traditions will survive.
• It's hard to say if the acequia traditions will survive.
• That also discusses acequias. Have they visited your area this year? Yeah, the acequias...
• The association, is that the New Mexico Acequia Association?
• So, there are two acequias. Well, there are several acequias in the area.

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• collaboration of the Legislative Council and world-renowned experts on traditional land-based land grant and acequia
• Chairman, is a monumental piece of legislation that places our centuries Old Spanish land grants and acequia
• Chairman, House Bill 21 places a land grant and acequia infrastructure fund in the budget for all capital

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• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill

Bills: HM19

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• In addition to that, we also have five different established acequias and other ditches with our district
• We have a lot of streams and acequias that come through that area.
• In that conversation, Madam Chair and Senator, it was talked about the— acequias.
• What happens in the acequias in the erosion— And he was also charging my grandfather downstream because
• especially in moving them, where you put them before you position them, and if it's going to affect the acequias

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• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Speaker, your Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, to whom has been referred House Bill
• Section 5(B)(1) of the New Mexico Constitution, ordered printed, and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequia
• House Memorial 26 has been read by title, is ordered printed, and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequia

Bills: HM3, HM11, HM14, HM15, HM21

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• understanding from some recent research by some of my friends and some of the work around land grants in acequias
• evaluate a curriculum that was created for children; I think it was the first one, and it was around acequias
• We do not have any acequias or land grants in San Juan County, but my family is multi-generational Rio
• I've been working with the New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA) for almost 30 years and have attended
• First of all, I want to mention that I work with the New Mexico Acequia Association.

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• in farming right there on Railroad Avenue in Espanola, New Mexico, which is watered by the Vigil Acequia
• , one of the oldest acequias.
• The settlement didn't happen until 1703, so our acequia, la acequia de Atrisco, la acequia... de los
• That's when they came in, put up their little tents, built the adobes, the terron, opened up the acequia

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• And so those **acequias** and groups that receive less, And so those **acequias** and groups that receive
• So if you give an **acequia** $75,000 and that's all they need, that's all they're going to receive,
• There's another portion of the bill that does auditing requirements for the **acequias**, but that's
• If we want to talk about the **acequia** limits and where they have to have financial statements and
• audits, that would be a About the **acequia** limits and where they have to have financial statements

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• So it was a wonderful education on acequias, the politics of Rio Arriba in the North.
• But the thing about Susan and Representative Herrera is that my brother is an acequia commissioner.
• Also, esteemed Speaker, you know, we have here a warrior of our land grant communities and our acequia
• And so you made a lot of allies, a lot of friends in both the acequia and the land grant communities.
• I learned so much from the people in the district, my mutual domestic water associations, my acequias

Bills: HB111, HB108, HB145, HB164, HB291, HJR6, HR1, HB63, HB64, HB165, HB184, HB200, HB4, HB7, HB20, HB65, HB66, HB80, HB88, HB96, HB166, HB285, HB295, HB306, SB29, SB37, HJM2, HJM3, HJM1, HM7, HM17, HM4, HM22, HM23, HM24, HM26, HM2, HM16, HM32, HM13, HM47, HM20, HM51, HM1, HM31, HM35, HM36, HM46, HM53, HM54, HM11, HM14, HM21, HM34, HM50

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• And, presenter as senator, then why are the acequias?
• It would be excluded just like the acequias and the land grants. So it is excluded. Thank you.
• You said that the acequias didn't need to be excluded, but then they are excluded.
• And the reason for that is they do not, like the land grants, like the Acequia associations, would have

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• It could be for acequias and other small water users. users.
• drill down a little bit further because putting it in another ditch, I don't care if you call it an acequia
• My ditch is a ditch, and I feel the same way about my ditch that an acequia, a farm runner in an acequia

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• And it's also very clear that all around the state, there are people, the entities, the acequias, soil
• We are doing a lot of work in New Mexico to help restore acequias. It's been damaged.
• And that money has gone to help with acequias, to help with federal lands projects.
• I'm glad to know that the acequias are part of this because they need help whenever I hear about the

Bills: SB47, SB195, SB196, SB197, SB198, SB78

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• Agriculture, Acequia, and Water Resources Committee, and it's my first time ever presenting here, so
• And so I'm just curious how this helps the smaller sort of farmers acequias as they're going through
• And experts, how do the smaller farmers and acequias get this type of information? Out to them.

Bills: HM26, HB243, HB109

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• Ordered printed and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee, then
• Section 5B1 of the New Mexico Constitution, ordered printed, and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequia
• New Mexico Constitution, ordered printed, and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequia, and Water Resources
• Section 5B2, House Executive Message No. 13, ordered printed, and referred to the House Agriculture, Acequia

Bills: HB1

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