The supply line caused 21,000 hectares of mogote hill fire, which is now under control

Rural electrical cooperatives have most of the supply lines in this area.

In this legislative meeting, the legislators consider the house law 334, which would eliminate liability for rural electrical cooperatives that trigger a forest fire as long as they have submitted forest fire reduction plans for approval of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.

The legislator has announced Source New Mexico that the draft law is an attempt to complain that small electrical cooperatives prevent bankruptcies that usually have little money available, especially with strong wind events during the continued drought.

At an interim-legislative Finance Committee last summer, Rep. Joe Sanchez (D-Alcalde) said a lawsuit against the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative, in which Sanchez used to work, had to pay $ 25 million for his role in Las Conchas Fire 2011.

The amount of the risk cooperatives from forest fire complaints limits the amount of insurance that you can secure, and after the Las Conchas fire can only receive the cooperative $ 2 million to $ 3 million.

“Each lawsuit would put the cooperatives bankrupt, and everything that will do is to increase the cost of poor people in our rural areas,” he said at the meeting.

HB334, which Sanchez and four other legislators have sponsored, is waiting for a hearing at the House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee. The committee's schedule for the last week of the session has not yet been published.

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