New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 2 - STATE TRUST LANDS PART 24 CULTURAL PROPERTIES PROTECTION
Part 23 - STATE TRUST LANDS RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION FUND
Section 19.2.23.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
As used in 19.2.23 NMAC, the following terms have the meaning set forth in this section unless otherwise indicated in the text of this rule:
A. "clearance and compliance requirements" means biological and archeological surveys, or site delineation surveys, or any other state or federal regulatory requirement that may be needed to proceed with a restoration or remediation project.
B. "commissioner" means the New Mexico commissioner of public lands, and the commissioner's appointees under Section 19-1-7 NMSA 1978 acting within the scope of their authority. The commissioner may delegate to state land office staff the performance of functions required of the commissioner under this part.
C. "contaminant" means solid waste, hazardous materials, or any other state- or federally-regulated substance that threatens, or could threaten, public health or the environment.
D. "contractual surface damage and watershed restoration and remediation projects" means projects performed by vendors or service providers through contracts with the state land office to repair surface damage on, restore or remediate state trust lands.
E. "in-kind contribution" means a contribution of labor, materials, or other non-monetary resources by an individual or entity other than the state land office.
F. "matching contribution" means a monetary contribution by an individual or entity other than the state land office.
G. "reclamation" means returning land that has been rendered unusable by human activities or natural processes to a usable state.
H. "remediation" means actions necessary to investigate, prevent, minimize, remove, or mitigate threats to the public health or to the environment that may otherwise result from a release or threat of release of contaminants.
I. "restoration" means repairing or treating a site to return it to a desired previously existing condition or to achieve native plant cover and diversity levels equal to or exceeding the natural potential levels in undisturbed soils adjacent to the project area.
J. "restoration and remediation fund" means the state trust lands restoration and remediation fund.
K. "state land office" means the New Mexico state land office established under Section 19-1-1 NMSA 1978, the executive officer of which is the commissioner.
L. "surface damage" means the removal of, mechanical disturbance to, or introduction of hazardous materials to, the ground surface, vegetation, or soils in a given location.
M. "trust lands" means those lands, their natural products and all assets derived from them, which are under the care, custody and control of the commissioner.
