New Mexico in Focus; 1451; Cannabis & Conquistadors, PFAS Pollution Accountability, Air Force Plans

>> FUNDING FOR NEW MEXICO IN THE MCCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION >> Gene: THIS NEW CONGRESSWOMAN ON THE POLITICAL >> Stansbury: WHEN YOU LOOK AT RIGHT NOW WITH DROUGHT ACROSS IT IS THE NEXT BIG >> Gene: SPEAKING OF CLIMATE IS IT TOO LATE TO BEAT THE LINE OPINION PANEL TAKES NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS STARTS THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS I AM YOUR HOST, GENE GRANT. WE HOPE YOU'RE COOL AND SAFE EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE THE LINE OPINION PANEL ALSO THE CANNABIS LEGALIZATION DATE AS WELL AS WHAT HAS PROTESTS ERUPTED OVER STATUES NEW MEXICO'S CONTROVERSIAL AFTER TESTIFYING AT CONGRESS

NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY LAURA PASKUS WHO ALSO SPOKE WITH ABOUT WHY YEARS AFTER THE MILITARY BENEATH SEVERAL INSTALLATIONS. REMINDER YOU CAN CATCH ANY BY WATCHING ON THE NEW MEXICO SEARCHING OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL. SCORCHING TEMPS, POOR AIR WILDFIRES. TINDERBOX AFTER DAYS OF RECORD PRESCIOUS LITTLE METEOROLOGISTS WITH THE THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE IT'S ANOTHER NEW NORMAL, AS CLIMATE CHANGE THAT COULD COME HERE TO OFFER THOUGHTS AND VIRTUAL LINE OPINION PANEL. THEY PUT INTO RESEARCHING FORMER SENATOR DEDE FELDMAN

RURAL NEW MEXICO WHERE ALWAYS THE MOST RELIABLE OR ALSO JOINED BY INEZ RUSSELL AT THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN TJ TROUT FROM KKOB RADIO. STRAIN ON OUR UTILITIES AND AND IT IS ONLY JUNE. FROM HERE ON OUT, DEDE, WHAT TERMS OF STAYING SAFE AND >> Dede: WELL, THIS IS A IT IS NOT A CRISIS THAT IS WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR WATER OF WATER CONSERVATION. FIRST TIME FARMERS ARE FARM BECAUSE OF THE VERY POOR

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS COUPLE OF YEARS. DRYNESS NOW. VERY POOR SNOW PACK. TOO EARLY FOR THE FARMERS TO USE SITUATION WHERE THERE HAS TO BE USAGE, EVEN DRINKING WATER AND SO, THAT IS ONE. I THINK CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE WITH WATER CONSERVATION BUT, THE REAL WATER USER IN AND FOR YEARS NOW WE HAVE BEEN WATER CONSERVATIVE IRRIGATED IRRIGATION ON CROPS THAT ARE

I THINK WE DO NEED -- WE ARE BUT AS FAR AS CITIES GO, I THINK ALBUQUERQUE IS GOOD, BUT WE >> Gene: TJ, A QUESTION FOR YOU. JULY 4 IS COMING UP QUICK AND THE GOVERNOR HAS ALREADY MADE WE DO THIS EVERY SUMMER NO DOUBT. POWER ON A STATE-WIDE BASIS OR FORGET PERSONAL FIREWORKS WHAT IS THE RIGHT SOLUTION? PRETTY MUCH BY WHO IS IN BECAUSE WHOEVER IS IN DECISIONS AND SAYS YES IT IS YOU HAVE GOT TO LOOK IN TERMS I MEAN AS DEDE JUST SAID, WE ON OUR HANDS AND WE ARE

WORRIED ABOUT AGRICULTURAL HAVING ANY WATER IN IT. MY GOD, WHAT IS GOING ON UP IT IS CRAZY. SHOULDN'T -- COMMON SENSE SHOULD IF WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY RAIN, IF WE ARE GETTING IF ANYTHING CAN START A BRUSH CAR CAN START A BRUSH FIRE, CIGARETTE OUT OF -- THIS PEOPLE THROW CIGARETTES OUT OF IF THAT STARTS A FIRE, WELL, START FIRES. GOVERNMENT WOULD BE ABLE TO SAY, LOOK, THIS IS VERY COMMON YOU'RE PUTTING THINGS ON FIRE, THEY LAND SOMEWHERE. FIREWORKS. >> Gene: INTERESTING YOU >> TJ: I LOVE FIREWORKS. ABSOLUTELY, BUT, INEZ, IN

WONDERING MUNICIPALITIES MIGHT BAN THEM? PROVEABLE FIRE SOMEWHERE THAT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SQUARE WITH PUBLIC SAFETY THEIR FUN. BEEN GOING THROUGH NOW FOR AN WE ARE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING THE GREATER GOOD. THEMSELVES AND A MOMENTS THEIR HEELS IN ON AN ISSUE. FOR THESE PEOPLE THAT SELL THIS IS THEIR ONE CHRISTMAS INEZ, THERE ARE WILDFIRES AS THERE WAS A BOSQUE FIRE IN LOS SAY THIS COULD BE AN EXTREMELY

SANTA FE. BE DOING FROM A PREVENTIVE DOWN TO A DULL ROAR? LITTLE IT CAN DO BECAUSE THE BILLS THAT WOULD ALLOW THE FIREWORKS. ORDERS SUGGESTED IT TURNS OUT OF BECAUSE THE YOU CAN ONLY BAN 20 DAYS IN AND IT IS TOO LATE IF YOU THERE IS VERY LITTLE YOU CAN YOU BAN THE SALE AND YOU BAN AROUND AND CATCH THE PEOPLE ORDERED THEM ONLINE OR THERE WAS A BILL, I THINK, BY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE GOVERNOR -- THAT POWER. LET'S

YOU WANT IT AT A DIFFERENT THE FIRE MARSHAL WITH DATA COULD HAVE AND IT SEEMS WHAT TJ SAYS IS COMMON SENSE. WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE IT WORSE >> Dede: I TRIED TO DO THIS IN FIRE AND IT IS REALLY WE ARE NOT ABLE TO BAN THE DURING A TIME OF EXTREME AS YOU SAID, INEZ, THE FIRE HERE AND REGULATE THIS, BUT IT THAT IS ABLE TO BLOCK THIS IN YOU KNOW, COMMON SENSE, I THERE WEREN'T TOO MANY THINGS ON BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THEM. IN THE PROSPECT OF JUST TWO OR

ROSWELL AND FARMINGTON WHO THE COMMITTEES AND BLOCK IT. >> Inez: GEORGIA JUST DID THIS. ILLEGAL AND LEGALIZING -- PART THE GOVERNOR, USING A DROUGHT DECISION, THERE IS AN ACTUAL GETS TO X HE CAN SAY, YES, WE SO, IF A CONSERVATIVE BAN FIREWORKS, IT SEEMS LIKE NOT BE A PART THAT WE COULD DO LIVES AT RISK AND PROPERTY. WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS >> Inez: IF PEOPLE WERE WE WOULDN'T NEED >> TJ: GETTING AROUND THE LAW THE FIRST FOURTH OF JULY WAS

MOVING BACK, AND I THINK IT LEAST IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW, LIKE INCOMING. EVERY SINGLE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS HOW DO YOU FIGHT THAT? RESCUE OUT A COUPLE DAYS THEY ARE ALMOST DOE IN THE FOR THEM. YOU CAN'T DO IT. THERE IS >> Gene: THERE ARE PEOPLE OFF FIREWORKS NOW GETTING >> Inez: ANOTHER THING IS TAX >> Gene: THAT IS A TRIED AND NEW SUBJECT. HAVE YOU FOUND CREATIVE WAYS IF SO, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR SHOOT US A LINE ON FACEBOOK, SHARE THEM WITH THE REST OF SPEAKING OF HEAT, THERE WAS AS NEW MEXICANS IN THE FIRST WHO SHOULD DEMOCRAT MELANIE STANSBURY WON

SWORN INTO OFFICE ON MONDAY. WITH HER AFTER THE ELECTION TO AND WHAT HER BIGGEST TASKS ARE HERE IS A BIT OF THAT >> Gene: HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE SINCE THE WIN? ELECTION NIGHT AND GAVE US A THE PRESIDENT AND VICE DAY AS WELL, WHICH WAS REALLY BUT, YEAH, I THINK THAT THIS OVER THE COUNTRY. THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS. I THINK, VERY MUCH A BELL POLITICAL NARRATIVE, HOW IT ELECTIONS AND ALSO BECAUSE IT NEW MEXICO AND BECAUSE THIS SEAT OUR AMAZING SECRETARY, DEB THE COUNTRY WERE WATCHING >> Gene: IT IS AMAZING YOU

FOCUS. AND LOOK AT ALL THE HEADLINES, NAME ALMOST DOMINATED ALL IT WAS AMAZING. TALK ABOUT BELL WEATHER. DID WERE WATCHING THIS RACE THIS >> Stansbury: THE THING THAT REQUEST FOR ME TO COME ON TO THE INTERNATIONAL BBC DAYS AFTER. ACROSS THE WORLD WERE ACTUALLY BECAUSE OF THE NATIONAL I RECEIVED MESSAGES AND ALL OVER THE PLACE. THINK IT BECAME CLEAR, A MONTH OUT IN THIS RACE THAT ELECTIONS HAPPENED, THAT THIS THAT EVERYONE WAS WATCHING. THE WASHINGTON POST AND NEW

NATIONAL MEDIA STARTED SO, I WASN'T SO MUCH SURPRISED WE HAD AND MARGIN SHOCKED IT DIDN'T SHOCK US BECAUSE WE TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE BUT, I THINK THAT IT REALLY PEOPLE ARE STILL TRYING TO THE PARTY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR NEW IT HAS BEEN REALLY INTERESTING >> Gene: INTERESTING FOR SURE. I CAN'T SAY I HAVE KNOWN ANY EVERY WENT INTO OFFICE WITHOUT BURNED IN THEM THAT THEY IT MAY NOT EVEN HAVE BEEN BUT I THINK IT IS FOR YOU, DO YOU HAVE ONE THING YOU'RE A GOAL THAT YOU WANT TO SEE >> Stansbury: WATER AND IS THE THING I

SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE WORKING I FORMERLY WORKED AS A SENATE COMMITTEE WHERE I WORKED ON WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT IS WITH THE DROUGHT ACROSS IT IS THE NEXT BIG AM EXCITED TO WORK WITH MY NEW IDEAS AROUND WATER POLICY COMMUNITIES AND ESPECIALLY THERE IS STILL COMMUNITIES DRINKING WATER THAT NEED WATER THAT. BUT I THINK IN THE SHORT TERM HELPING THE COUNTRY AND NEW AFTER THE PANDEMIC, GETTING, YOU KNOW, THE RELIEF AND INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE ACROSS THAT IS MY IMMEDIATE WORK BRING AND DELIVER DOLLARS BACK

SO WE'RE IN THE EXCITING PHASE SET UP AND ONE OF THE THINGS HAVE A STRONG PRESENCE IN >> Gene: INFRASTRUCTURE, I LET ME STITCH IT TO WHAT YOU THIS IS BIG IN THE NEWS RIGHT PRESIDENT BIDEN NOT HAVING MEMBERS NOW, KIND OF GOING IT BIPARTISAN FOLKS. ANYTHING INFRASTRUCTURE WISE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN IF WE THAT DOES PASS? THINGS THAT I THINK ARE REALLY CONSTITUENTS AND STATE AND OFFICIALS, IS NUMBER ONE IS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, I THINK, HAVING BROADBAND ACCESS DURING REVEALED THAT RURAL AREAS, BROADBAND AND THE FEDERAL

THESE INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGES BUT WE NEED DESPERATELY TO CAN GET IT IN THE GROUND. INFRASTRUCTURE. IN CD1 IS THE TOHAJIILEE AND REALLY SEVERE DRINKING COMMUNITY. CHAPTERS IN NAVAJO NATION AND NEED DRINKING WATER AND THE THIRD REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT IN THE AMERICAN JOBS INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE IS ALL RENEWABLE ENERGY. REALLY ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE WE PASSED THE GRID PASSED THE ENERGY TRANSITION SO WE ARE LIKE POISED TO CLEAN ENERGY SPACE BUT WE NEED THAT EXTRA SUPPORT AND SECTOR.

THINK ARE REALLY CRITICAL. OUR LONG TRADITION OF OUR CLOSELY WITH OUR SENATE MEMBERS, IN NEW MEXICO, TO BRING HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK HAVE YOU HAD HEADS TOGETHER AND THINK WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO IN >> Stansbury: WE HAVEN'T SENATORS HEINRICH AND LUJAN CAMPAIGN AND I DID HAVE THE SENATOR HEINRICH LAST WEEK AND COLLABORATION AND ALSO HAVE LEGER-FERNANDEZ WHO HAS BEEN SUPPORT ME AS I AM GETTING HARRELL WILL ACTUALLY HELP WE HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE BUT NEW MEXICO I WE HAVE A VERY TIGHT WORKS CLOSELY TOGETHER AND

OFFICIALS WITH THE GOVERNOR LEGISLATURE. WE GOT SOME BIG IMPORTANT >> Gene: THANK YOU FOR WE KNOW YOU'RE RUNNING FAST AND BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR >> Stansbury: THANK YOU FOR IT WAS WONDERFUL TO BE WITH YOU >> Sec. Kenney: WE CAN'T WAIT MUCH PRESSURE ON THE BIDEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO HELP EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT SURE THEY >> Gene: RECREATIONAL CANNABIS JUST UNDER TWO WEEKS. STATE BEGINS THE UNIQUE PROCESS ALREADY THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT FOR LAWMAKERS WHO WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE DECISIONS NAMELY WE RECENTLY LEARNED OF CANNABIS LEGALIZATION ACT,

UP A FULL SERVICE CANNABIS LAW MS. DUHIGG SAYS SHE WASN'T WHEN SHE SPONSORED THE BILL POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF FORWARD, BUT, TJ, ARE THESE MANY SECTORS AS LONG AS WE >> TJ: ARE YOU ASKING THE DUDE IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING? >> Gene: YES, I AM. >> TJ: YOU'RE PICKING ON ME. THE THING THAT PEOPLE DON'T THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS. CORRUPTION, GUESS WHERE IT IS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LAW IS I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WAS >> Gene: ARE WE HEAVY HANDED I AM NOT QUITE SURE. CANNABIS GOES, OR ANYTHING

SHOULD THERE BE A TIME LIMIT OR ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THAT THAT THEY WORKED ON, A OR ANY OTHER NEW LAW FOR THAT SHOULD THE LEGISLATORS BE OR SHOULD THERE BE A YEAR WHAT DO YOU THINK? >> Gene: KICKBACK TO THE WE DID HAVE STUART ENGLE AND PASSED THAT FROM APPLYING FOR A LICENSE DOES THAT DO ANYTHING, THERE IS LOTS OF WAYS TO GET WITHOUT BEING A LICENSE >> Dede: JUST LET ME ADDRESS AND THAT IS, THERE IS A LAW LAWMAKERS FROM PROFITING FROM IT IS IN THE GOVERNMENTAL

QUESTION IS THE SMELL TEST, REFERRING TO. DOESN'T SMELL RIGHT, PEOPLE AND OUR SYSTEM HERE WHERE WE THAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST IS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS AND GAS OR WHETHER IT IS SO MANY OF THE LEGISLATORS ARE AND, IT IS ACCEPTED THAT THEY IT DOES NOT PROFIT THEM FOR THE MOST PART, THEY UPHOLD BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE ON THE NOW WE HAVE AN ETHICS I THINK NOW IS THE TIME THAT WEIGH IN ON ALL OF THIS AND WE AMENDMENT TO ALLOW LEGISLATORS

KEEP COMING UP AGAIN AND AND THE LEGISLATORS CAN'T THAT IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST THERE HAS TO BE A THE ETHICS COMMISSION IS X, Y AND Z OF THAT MATTER. FOR INEZ RUSSELL GOMEZ. SENATOR CANDELARIA AND SPEAKER BOTH HAVE REPRESENTED MEDICAL CONFLICTS KNOWN OR SAT OUT THAT SITS WELL FOR SOME FOLKS SENATOR FELDMAN THAT IT HAS TO HONOR SYSTEM HERE? WE SHOULD PAY CITIZEN LEGISLATORS SO THAT THEY ARE CONFLICTS AREN'T AS OBVIOUS

IF YOU HAVE A LEGISLATURE WORKING OUT OF YOUR OWN POCKET DIEM AND MILEAGE, IT REALLY LEGISLATURE. FAMILY AND YOU CAN'T TAKE TIME AND HAVE POLICY IDEAS, PERSON TO BE IN THE CAN'T AFFORD IT? LEGISLATURE FULL OF RETIRED REAL ESTATE, DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WORK LANL AND ALL OF THOSE CONFLICTS. NEW, BUT THERE IS A MILLION KNOW THAT MONEY AND A SALARY EVERYTHING IN ADDITION TO THE OUT, IS IT GOING TO BE A LEGISLATURE? COMPENSATED FOR THEIR WORK AND LEGISLATURE IS NOT

WE START FROM THAT AND THEN WE MORE CONFLICTS. PAYING OUR LEGISLATORS IS NOT IN FACT IT COMES BUT I AM CURIOUS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE MIGHT END UP BEING A TIPPING SMELL TEST, AS SENATOR FELDMAN WELL WITH A LOT OF PUBLIC. WITH ISSUES LIKE THIS AND SO GENE, I DON'T I THINK IF YOU DIG DEEPER INTO EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. LEGISLATURE WHO ARE VOTING ON CONFLICTS OF INTEREST? MAYBE. FULL -- I GUESS WE NEED FULL IF YOU'RE IN THE STATE PEOPLE KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES.

KNOWLEDGE KNOWN BEFORE YOU YOU'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON. LOOK, I AM INVOLVED IN THE OIL TO WORK ON THIS SPECIFIC SHOULD I OR SHOULD I JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW. DON'T EVEN -- I DON'T WANT TO JUST EVEN THE ILLUSION >> Gene: SENATOR, WE HAVE A CURIOUS, FLIP WHAT IS HONESTLY THE MATTER WITH PRIVATE SECTOR AND TRYING TO IS IT THAT BAD THAT SHE SHOULD INTO THE INDUSTRY COMPLETELY? BUT I THINK THIS IS EXACTLY HERE YOU HAVE THREE YOUNG KATIE DUHIGG, JACOB CANDELARIA

THEY ARE OUT TO MAKE A LIVING, LEGISLATORS. CONFLICTS ARE GOING TO COME OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, IT IS HAVE A CLIENT AND YOU ALREADY, INDUSTRY AND THEN YOU'RE ASKED RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, AFTER THAT LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN ALREADY SO IT HAS GOT TO BE CHANGED. IT IS NOT REALLY ENFORCED IT NEEDS TO BE. IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH FULLER AND WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS

IMPORTANT HERE. ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE TO HOLD IT IS NOT FAIR BUT COMES WITH >> Gene: THAT IS ALL THE TIME THERE IS STILL PLENTY MORE TO TALK ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO THIS WEEK, I HAD A CHANCE TO THEIR STRUGGLE TO COME UP WITH REGULATIONS FOR CANNABIS YOU CAN SEE THAT FULL >> Dede: FOR EVERY TIME THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THAT WANT TO FROM EVEN BEING TAUGHT IN THE IT IS A REAL STICKY WICKET AND >> Gene: THIS MONTH NEW

OFFICIAL TESTIFIED BEFORE HELP WHEN IT COMES TO TOXIC PFAS CHEMICALS FROM CANNON MEANWHILE, THE AIR FORCE HAS TO TEST WATER TREATMENT WILL BE ONLINE IN 2023. THIS CHECKS IN WITH AIR FORCE AND ALSO NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT LATEST FROM THE FRONT LINES >> Laura: WELCOME CHRIS GIERKE. THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON NEW THE AIR FORCE ANNOUNCED A 16.6 TO AECOM AND CANNON AIR FORCE BASE. TREATMENT SYSTEM INSTALLED AT THE BASE TO TREAT PFOA AND IT WILL TEST THREE DIFFERENT WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO LEARN >> Gierke: THE DATA THAT IT IS

ONE, IT WILL SHOW US CAPTURE HOW CLOSE, HOW FAR APART DO BE PUT. ARE GOING TO BE PULLING TREATABILITY STUDY. EITHER GRANULATED ACTIVE COMBINATION OF THE TWO TO METHODS FOR TREATING PFAS, STUDY PORTION OF IT AND THEN THEY'LL GO INTO THE DESIGN AND PILOT STUDY THAT WILL GET PUT OPERATION OF THE PILOT STUDY TAKEN AND IT WILL HELP INFORM AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS INFORMATION FROM THE EECA AND FULL SCALE PUMP AND TREAT VIABLE OPTION FOR TREATING THE FORCE BASE, THEN THIS SYSTEM,

CREATED, IS DONE IN A WAY TO BE EXPANDED UPON SO THEN WE SYSTEM QUITE EASILY TO GO TO SYSTEM ON THE BASE. >> Laura: WHAT KIND OF PROJECT WHEN THE >> Gierke: THANK YOU FOR THAT. ACTUALLY THIS IS GOING TO BE A FAST PROJECT. WE -- SO WE WERE AWARDED CONTRACT ON MAY 27 AND WE HAD CONTRACTOR ON JUNE 2 FOLLOWED WE HAD OUR ACTUAL KICKOFF HERE AT THE BASE TO PERFORM PLANNING. ACTUALLY BE OUT ON THE BASE ON SAMPLES TO DO THAT

SO, WE ARE GOING TO ROLL RIGHT AND DESIGN PHASE VERY QUICKLY, CONSTRUCTION TO START AROUND WITH THAT, IT WILL BE ABOUT -- BUT ABOUT A ONE-YEAR THEN THAT WILL BE WHEN THE START COLLECTING ACTUAL SO, YES, THE PUMPING AND COMMENCE THEN, SO, WE'RE FOR THE ACTUAL OPERATION TO >> Laura: IT SAYS IT CAN PUMP WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT WATER THOSE TWO SPECIFIC TYPES OF THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PFAS >> Gierke: THE TREATED WATER

BACK INTO WE'LL TAKE IT OUT, TREAT IT AS FAR AS THE DISPOSAL OF USED DEPEND WHERE WE ARE AT IN THE ROAD BECAUSE THINGS ARE SO AS NEW GUIDELINES COME OUT WASTE GENERATED AT THAT TIME. REGULATIONS ARE IS WHAT THE >> Laura: IF YOU FIND OUT SYSTEM WORKS OR ONE OF THESE THAN OTHERS, IS THIS SOMETHING WATER SYSTEM, TIE INTO THE CITY WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE >> Gierke: WE ARE RIGHT NOW PILOT STUDY WITH EECA SO WE WITH THIS INTERIM ACTION IT IS

MITIGATE ANY FURTHER OFF BASE THOSE FURTHER INTERACTIONS >> Laura: WE HAVE TALKED IN THE A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION I THINK LAST SUMMER IN CAN YOU GIVE ME AN UPDATE ON HAS STARTED AND WHAT THAT HOW IT TIES INTO THIS PILOT >> Gierke: ABSOLUTELY. WITH LAST TIME WE TALKED WAS WE OF DEVELOPING THAT WORK PLAN FOR A 30-DAY REGULATORY WE'LL GET THAT BACK AND INTO IT AND THEN WE CAN FIELD WORK. SLATED TO START IN OCTOBER OF RIGHT NOW WE ARE ACTUALLY 30-DAY COMMENT PERIOD GOING

SO WE ARE AHEAD OF THE CURVE, COMMENTS WE GET AND WHAT IT INTO THE WORK PLAN AND THEN ONCE WE GET THAT FINALIZED, WE SOON AS POSSIBLE. WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO MAKE FINALIZES WE CAN START WORK AS AND THE FIRST STAGE THAT WE COLLECTING OFF-BASE GROUND FROM THE LOCAL OUTSIDE AREA TO PFOS, PFOA IMPACT OFF BASE. >> Laura: THERE IS A LONG LEAD BETWEEN THE AWARDING OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORK PLAN FIELD WORK. SEEMS TO COME TOGETHER MORE CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHY THAT IS >> Gierke: IT IS A DIFFERENT WITH THE RI, IT WAS GOING

FOR ACQUISITION. MORE IN-DEPTH AND AS WE GO THE EECA UNDER A PILOT STUDY, THEY HAVE SOME UP FRONT WORK SAMPLING PORTIONS OF THE WORK BENCH SCALE TESTING AND AS THAT IS GOING, THEY WILL BE TANDEM WHEREAS WITH REMEDIAL THAT COULD BE DONE UP FRONT. FULLY DEVELOPED AND FINALIZED WE ARE PUSHING AS QUICKLY AS SHOOTING TO BE OUT AHEAD OF >> Laura: ALL RIGHT, CHRIS, ON NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS. >> Gierke: THANK YOU FOR HAVING >> Laura: SECRETARY KENNEY, WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO IN

THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME >> Sec. Kenney: PLEASURE TO BE >> Laura: THE AIR FORCE PROJECT THEY ARE GETTING READY IT IS A WATER TREATMENT PLANT. THIS PILOT PROJECT TIE IN WITH AT CANNON AIR FORCE BASE? >> Sec. Kenney: THAT IS A GREAT I UNDERSTAND CANNON IS WILL PREVENT PFAS CONTAMINATED MIGRATING OFF BASE. DELINEATION AND CLEANUP OF THE IN CONTACT WITH US TO TALK HOWEVER THE NEW MEXICO LEADING AN EFFORT THERE. THAT WAS DONE THAT REVEALED FROM PFAS AT CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, SEEMS LIKE THOSE TESTS

FOUR YEARS AGO. ABOUT WHERE THESE PLUMES HAVE >> Sec. Kenney: GREAT THE TIME FRAME BY WHICH WE ARE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO DO THAT EFFORT, AND THEN THERE IS NEW MEXICO IS INDEPENDENTLY SO, WE HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL, ANNOUNCEMENT, THAT THEY ARE MIGRATION AT CANNON. HAS GONE BACK TO THE APPROPRIATIONS AND HAS BEGUN A UNDERSTAND AND TO KNOW WHERE FIGURE OUT WAYS TO CLEAN IT WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS. THAT THE AIR FORCE AND STATE NECESSARILY COOPERATING ON CAN YOU CHARACTERIZE THE STATE HAVE HAD SINCE

IN 2018 ABOUT THIS >> Sec. Kenney: I THINK WHEN TOOK IN THE STATE OF NEW DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTABLE, WE WE WANTED ACTION QUICKLY. THAT WASN'T ON THE TABLE, THAT IN REALITY, LITIGATION, BASED PROPOSED TO US, SEEMED LIKE THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE HAD QUITE POSITIVE. CONTRIBUTE A LOT TO THE STATE THAT OBVIOUSLY. SOMEHOW WAIT TO PROTECT NEW ECONOMY, THAT IS THE PART THAT

AND THAT IS WHERE WE ARE IN A >> Laura: AS I UNDERSTAND IT, LAWSUIT AGAINST NEW MEXICO COMPEL THE MILITARY TO CLEAN RECENTLY THE BIDEN THAT THIS LAWSUIT, THAT THE AND CAPRICIOUSLY. THAT LAWSUIT RIGHT NOW? >> Sec. Kenney: IT MIGHT BE AS YOU POINT OUT, TO FIRST LAWSUIT WAS SUING THE PFAS CLEANUP AT CANNON AIR THAT LAWSUIT IS CONTINUING TO WE STAND FIRMLY BY WE MADE THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, A FOR THE REASONS WE HAVE TALKED

PUBLIC HEALTH. CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON MAKING I WOULD HOPE THAT UNDER THE UNDER ALL THE MOVEMENT BY THE AGENCY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RISK THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AS JUSTICE AND THEY UNDERSTAND HAVE TO BE FIGHTING TO CLEAN AND THEY ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE >> Laura: YOU RECENTLY IN CONGRESS ASKING FOR THE STATES LIKE NEW MEXICO. WHAT DO STATES NEED FROM, SAY, >> Sec. Kenney: THAT IS A GREAT AND ONE OF THE TESTIFY BEFORE THAT FULL ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS OUR NEEDS ARE, ONE, TO HAVE

CHEMICAL IT IS. UNDERSTAND WHETHER THEY ARE SUBSTANCE OR NOT. WE NEED A COMPREHENSIVE WAY TO AND THAT IS WHAT I WAS CONGRESS THAT WE UNDER FEDERAL LAW AS INTENDED IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE HAVE A TIME IT COMES INTO THE STATE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. SO WE ARE NOT JUST FINDING IT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS WE ALSO NEED A DRINKING WATER AS YOU KNOW, AND MANY VIEWERS NATIONAL DRINKING WATER

STATES ARE TAKING A LEADERSHIP WE MOVE FORWARD TO ADDRESS -- ADDRESS PFAS AS A HAZARDOUS WATER, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS OUR EXPERIENCE HERE IN ARE BEING INNOVATIVE AND PROBLEMS IN COMMUNITIES AND WE NEED FEDERAL LEADERSHIP ON >> Laura: EPA HAS SAID THAT BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. WITH THEIR EXPERT TO TALK STUDIES FOR A GREATER NUMBER TOLD ME THAT IT IS PREMATURE ABOUT ANY OF THIS. PRIORITY FOR THE EPA UNDER THE >> Sec. Kenney: I DO. I THINK THAT IN ANY LAST TRANSITION FROM THE TRUMP

ADMINISTRATION, THERE IS A BE DONE, NOT ONLY TO STOP THE TRACKS BUT REVERSE COURSE. OF THE BUREAUCRACY AND FORWARD COMPREHENSIVELY IS I AM OPTIMISTIC, BASED ON MY THEY ARE GOING TO LEAN IN VERSUS LEANING IN NOW ARE TWO EVERYDAY WE THINK ABOUT THE PFAS IN NEW MEXICO FROM THEIR HEALTH. CONTINUE TO PUT AS MUCH ADMINISTRATION AS POSSIBLE AND IF THEY ARE NOT SURE THEY ARE >> Laura: SECRETARY KENNEY, ON NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS. >> Sec. Kenney: THANK YOU. IT'S >> Gene: IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SCULPTURE IN OLDTOWN

THE COUNTER-PROTESTORS THE PUBLIC AND POLITICIANS ALIKE THEIR HANDLING OF THE SITUATION. CONQUISTADOR DON JUAN ONATE THE CITY HELD PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT COVER CULTURALLY BUT SO FAR NO RESOLUTION. CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT CYNTHIA ADDRESSED AGAIN UNTIL THIS ISN'T JUST AN ALBUQUERQUE SANTA FE IS DEALING WITH A THE CONTROVERSIAL OBELISK ON PROTESTORS LAST OCTOBER. THE IT SEEMS, ROUTINELY VANDALIZED INEZ, IS THAT DAY THAT PASSES WITHOUT A WHAT HAS BEEN THE DELAY HERE? WHAT IS GOING ON? >> Inez: THE DELAY -- A POSITIVE WAY TO LOOK AT IT,

POSSIBLE TO CREATE AN THAT WHATEVER DECISION COMES DECISION OF THE CITY. THEY CALL IT THE CHART PROCESS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION WHERE THE OBELISK BUT HOW THE PRESENTED IN A PUBLIC WAY IN WHETHER THERE ARE TOO MANY YOU KNOW, WOMEN OR FARMERS OR JUST ARE WE TELLING OUR WHOLE THAT TAKES A WHILE AND HAVE SAID I THINK THAT IN THE OBELISK, IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE SAID -- WE SAID IN IT IS GOING TO BE A WOUND. DO SOMETHING IN THE SHORT TERM MY LAST SUGGESTION WAS JUST THE BOX AND CALL IT A GARDEN.

WHATEVER REASON AND THE LATEST UNION PROTECTIVA, WHICH IS A DESPITE IT BEING A NONPARTISAN HAS FILED A LAWSUIT SAYING THAT EMBOLDENED PROTESTERS AND THEY AT HIS COMMAND AND THAT PROTECT THE PLAZA BECAUSE IT THAT JUST HAPPENED A FEW DAYS THEIR SOLUTION IS TO FORGET THE FORGET EXCEPT FOR THEM. IT AS IT WAS BECAUSE ANYTHING WHOM IT WAS DEDICATED, IT AND I HAVE TO LOOK, I MIGHT THE BATTLE AT VALVERDE AND THE IT BACK, PERIOD, AND THAT IS

THAT IS WHERE WE ARE AT IN NO DECISION ON WHAT TO DO BUT >> Gene: INTERESTING POINTS. TJ, ALBUQUERQUE CITY LEADERS AND PUBLIC INPUT SO FAR, DO YOU THINK THAT IS WHAT IS HAS A DECISION ARE NOT TIPPING THEIR HOW DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOING WHOLE CONTROVERSY TOOK PLACE. NO. 1, I THINK, QUITE FRANKLY, NOW TO MAKE A DECISION BECAUSE TO MAKE AND THEY REALIZE ANY GOING TO GET GRIEF FROM WITH IT. ISSUES, I THINK, OH, GOD WE THIS, YES YOU DO. JUST, GENE, AN OVERALL LOOK AT WE ARE GOING THROUGH A PERIOD A PERIOD OF JUST INTROSPECTION

HAVE SOLUTIONS. I AM OBSERVING ALL THIS AND WE PAUL ANDREW HUTTON, WHO IS THE UNM HISTORY I HAVE HIM ON THE SHOW EVERY WE WERE HAVING A DISCUSSION A COUPLE OF MONTHS HISTORY OF IT AND I GO, PAUL, HE KIND OF CHUCKLED. REALIZE BACK THEN, THEY WERE WERE BAD DUDES. A VALID POINT. SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSETS. INDIVIDUAL. NEED TO REALIZE THAT THIS NEVER WAS, AND NEVER WILL BE A THEY HAVE GOT TO GET USED TO

PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES. ENLIGHTENED. SOMETHING THAT WE ARE NOT EVEN WILL COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF WE HAVEN'T COME UP WITH IT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS. WE ALL WITNESSED A YEAR AGO ISSUES FESTER EVEN IF WE CAN'T THE NEAR FUTURE, ARE CITIES DOING ENOUGH TO KEEP THE UNDERLYING ISSUES? OR NO PANDEMIC, HOW THE IN BOTH SANTA FE AND YOU THINK THIS WOULD BE A VERY SINCE IT HAPPENED. SOCIAL RECKONING CANNOT BE DECISION HAS TO BE MADE.

ALBUQUERQUE PROCESS WHICH IS HEALING PROJECT. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR BUT, NOTHING HAS BEEN DECIDED. SO, THAT IS WHERE THE RUBBER UP TO THE CITY COUNCIL, BUCK THE MAYOR HAS ORGANIZED THE DOESN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT AND THE DELAY IS AT THEIR OWN SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN SANTA FE BUT, I JUST WANT TO MENTION, NOW CALLED FORGET THE ALAMO. HEARD OF IT OR NOT. WE WERE AND DAVY CROCKETT AND ALL THAT STUFF.

OF THAT WAS A MYTH AND THESE THE MEXICANS WHO WERE THAT THEY WERE DEFENDING, SO IT BUT FOR EVERY TIME THAT SOME OF THIS NEW RESEARCH, STOMP IT DOWN. CRITICAL RACE THEORY FROM EVEN SO, IT IS A REAL STICKY WICKET >> Gene: INEZ, COINCIDENTALLY ARE MAYORAL ELECTIONS BOTH ALBUQUERQUE AND SANTA FE. THE LACK OF ACTION ON THESE WOULD YOU SAY? >> Inez: I AM NOT SURE IT'S A BECAUSE WHEN GEORGE FLOYD

>> Gene: YOU'RE GOOD. GO AHEAD. STEPPED UP AND SAID THESE SPECIFICALLY SINGLED OUT DON PARK AND THE OBELISK, AND THE OFFENSIVE BY MANY NATIVE THE SAVAGE INDIANS WHO HAD HE DELAYED THAT SUMMER BECAUSE IS A THOUGHTFUL PERSON WHO AT THIS MOMENT WE NEED TO ACT IS, THE PEOPLE INVOLVED THINK TIME. WE DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE YOU HAVE TO DO A FEW THINGS TO GET GOING AND SHOW THAT YOU RIGHT NOW WE HAVEN'T EVEN HATE THAT WORD, TO HELP MOVE WE CAN'T EVEN PICK A PERSON TO

GET FOLKS IN A ROOM. THAT >> Gene: DIALOGUE, DIALOGUE. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK THIS WEEK. MEDIA CHANNELS, FACEBOOK, JUST SEARCH FOR NM SOME 300 ALL TIME HIGHS ARE HARD TO FATHOM WITH TRIPLE FROM MONTANA TO SIGHT. THE EXCEPTIONAL FEEDBACK OF HEAT AND MAKES THE WHAT IS HAPPENING. OUT THAT OVER THE LAST THREE FOR 30% OF THE MANUFACTURING WHILE WE HAVEN'T SEEN A HUGE THAT WERE CREATED, TRENDS PRIME CHOICE FOR ALL THIS FIERCE ACTIVITY UNDER OR NOW THIS PUTS NEW MEXICO IN A DO WE CHASE THE MANUFACTURING WATER CONCERNS.

THE TIME FOR THE INTERSTATE DROUGHT STRATEGY IS NOW. HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE LIKE OUR IT'S TIME FOR LAWMAKERS TO THE HEAT TO HEART. AND STAYING INFORMED AND SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK, >> FUNDING FOR NEW MEXICO IN THE MCCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND VIEWERS LIKE YOU.