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Back To The Future: Regional Differences In New Mexico Water Rights, G. Emlen Hall

Faculty Scholarship

You could say that I am here this morning as an advance man of tomorrows detailed talks on the active water rights management regulations that were recently adopted by the Office of the State Engineer, because I am going to talk about those a little bit in a historical context. You could also say that I am here to warm you up to that topic, so that you are ready for tomorrow's detailed controversial discussion of those. My job as the warmer up may be simply to inform you about the acronym that people are using in my world to …

History Of Colorado River Law, Development And Use: A Primer And Look Forward, Greg Hobbs, Jr.

Hard Times on the Colorado River: Drought, Growth and the Future of the Compact (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

Presenter: Greg Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Supreme Court.

25 pages.

Contains references.

Weighing And Balancing Social And Economic Considerations Of Siting Landfills To Address Environmental Justice Concerns, Sharon Shaheen

Student Thesis Honors (1996-2008)

Environmental justice in permitting new landfills is best addressed as one element of many weighed in an agency discretionary decision-making process. Siting landfills necessarily includes consideration of technical, social, economic and political issues. Currently, the landfill permitting process in New Mexico examines only technical, scientific, and geological factors. In effect, a permit must be granted if all of the technical specifications and notice requirements are met. To adequately address all of the impacts on a community when a landfill is sited nearby, an agency should have both the discretion to weigh and balance all relevant factors and the authority to …

The Disenfranchisement Of The American Indian, Brenna Clani

Student Thesis Honors (1996-2008)

The history of the enfranchisement of the American Indian is complicated and complex. This paper will sort through this complicated and complex history. The paper will first analyze the unique status of Indians and how it excluded them from the meaning of "citizen," as interpreted by the United State Supreme Court. It is against this backdrop that the way in which states denied American Indians the right to vote after the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 will then be analyzed.

Wet Water Law: New Mexico Style, G. Emlen Hall

Faculty Scholarship

Table of Contents for a course reader. v. 1. The nature of a New Mexico prior appropriation water right -- The attributes of new Mexico water rights -- Surface water and groundwater in New Mexico -- The State Engineer: an administered system -- Statutory adjudications -- New appropriations, transfers and sales of a New Mexico water right -- Emerging issues -- Water planning in New Mexico -- Constraints on the state law of prior appropriation -- v. 2. Emerging local issues -- Federal constraints on the state system -- Native American constraints on the state system -- Interstate water rights.