HB 127

This bill amends New Mexico's Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Act to prohibit the storage or disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste within the state, unless a permanent federal repository is operational. The legislation also restructures the state's Radioactive Waste Consultation Task Force by updating its membership (adding homeland security, emergency management, and Indian affairs officials while removing highway department representation) and requiring it to meet at least annually rather than just "regularly." Additionally, the bill expands the task force's negotiation duties with the federal government to explicitly include considerations of economic impacts, water quality, and environmental justice issues related to radioactive waste disposal facilities, while clarifying that the task force must now monitor both federal and private disposal facilities within the state.