Bruce F. Vento: “we are giving this commission the dollars and I do not think the proper guidance. It is actually seven out of eight…”

“we are giving this commission the dollars and I do not think the proper guidance. It is actually seven out of eight States that are not included in this, only the State of New Mexico is the focus. This is a 10-year commission we are setting up. Fundamentally, this is $10 million in new spending. There are no additional dollars here being recognized that this is going to cost the State Department, this is going to cost the land management agencies, in order to try and deal with this. This is just the tip of the iceberg, the $10 million that is placed in this bill that is authorized by this bill. We can double or triple that particular amount, and we are basing it on a flawed supposition in terms of the charge we are giving to this particular commission. Also, we are only dealing with one State, so we can probably multiply that number by eight or ten times in terms of the commissions that are going to have to be established based on this bill. We are looking at a bill that is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, just in terms of the judicial process, no doubt about that and that will just be for attorneys and legal redtape. One of the ways to cut through this is by dealing with the clouded titles, but we do not have that solution.”