Democracy for New Mexico

Next Santa Fe County Public Meeting on Oil & Gas Drilling Set for 12.6.07

From Drilling Santa Fe:
On December 6th, beginning at 6:30 PM, Santa Fe County will host a public oil and gas meeting at the Santa Fe High Gym. This is a much bigger venue, so people should not be turned away at the door this time. Officials attending: all five of the Santa Fe County Commissioners; Representatives King and Wirth; Senator Geigo; John Bemis of the State Land Office; and Mark Fesmire of the Oil Conservation Division (OCD).

This meeting is critically important. Not only do we need to address the draft oil and gas ordinance that if left as is, would weaken, not strengthen the protections of the existing mining ordinance.

In addition, the oil and gas industry is being hostile about any proposed regulations beyond the currently adopted State regulations. The oil and gas industry is on the attack about the proposed OCD pit rule that would help protect groundwater from the oil and gas industry waste pit pollution. The oil and gas industry is threatening to have legislation passed that would eviscerate the Oil Conservation Division and to disallow counties the ability to regulate oil and gas activities. By attending this meeting, you would show your support against such legislative attempts.

Santa Fe High School is at 2100 Yucca St, Santa Fe, NM (505) 467-2400. It is just South of Siringo Road.
Mapquest map link, which can be enlarged, is here.

You can download a meeting flyer in pdf hardcopy here for printing and distributing, which is highly encouraged. If you have a problem with the link, email drillingsantafe@earthlink.net and we will send it to you as a pdf email attachment.

Links to our previous posts and other background info on this issue are available here, and DrillingSantaFe.org has a wealth of information, a petition, etc.

Guest Blog: ABQ City Council to Reconsider Public Subsidies for Large Developers at December 3 Meeting

This is a guest blog by Gabriel Nims, the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of New Mexico. He does a great job of explaining public financing tools for development called TIFs and TIDDs -- and how they are being used in ways that can be damaging to our communities, water supplies and economic future. He asks us to join 1000 Friends of New Mexico, the SouthWest Organizing Project, AFSCME , New Mexico Voices for Children and others in pushing for a reconsideration of the TIDD concept, as well as a proposed ban on their use in what are called 'green fields'.

The issue is on the agenda at the Albuquerque City Council meeting on December 3, 2007 in the form of amendments sponsored by Councilor Michael Cadigan. Please contact your City Councilor, State Legislator and Governor Richardson to weigh in on this issue.

The debate over growth and development in the Albuquerque region has taken a turn to the absurd over the past year with the emergence of a new set of crazy acronyms: TIF and TIDD.

Many will remember the political uproar over the Planned Growth Strategy, better known as PGS. The ire of development interests in the city was raised to the point where they felt compelled to create a political action group called CGA, or Citizens for a Greater Albuquerque, with the sole purpose of denying “no-growth” and “anti-Paseo” candidates seats on the City Council during the 2003 municipal elections. And lest we forget the infamous and now seldom-mentioned ABQPAC scandal.

But Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, and its little spawn, the Tax Increment Development District, TIDD, opens a new chapter in the book of urban growth-related acronyms. What these new acronyms mean and do is a very complicated story, which is why you may just be hearing about this for the first time. But allow me to explain as best I can. For deeper understanding of how TIF works check out publications from Good Jobs First Good Jobs First and the studies by FRESC in Denver.

What Is TIF?
TIF is an economic development tool available to developers in 48 states. TIF was originally conceived as a way to induce reinvestment in older, blighted areas deemed too risky or costly for private investors to improve.

It works like this:

1. an area (the District) is defined for (re)development;
2. a baseline of property and, as in New Mexico, gross receipts tax is established within the district;
3. a deal is cut between the developer and the taxing agencies that allows the developer to receive up to 75% of the increase (the Increment) in tax revenue resulting from the improvements and new economic activity within the District;
4. the developer is granted the Increment for up to 25 years to offset the costs of infrastructure (sewers, sidewalks, roads, etc) within the District.

Phew!-- Any questions?

New Mexico TIF law puts a new twist on this mechanism. Where other states try to limit the tool’s use to redevelopment by applying strict criteria for demonstrating blight, New Mexico, with some nudging from developer lobbyists, requires a developer to simply demonstrate increased economic development, regardless of where a district is created, blight or otherwise.

Therein lies the rub.

TIDDs in Greenfields
In New Mexico, greenfields are only green for a few weeks after intermittent monsoons, but it’s a commonly used term referring to the undeveloped expanses that surround our cities and towns. In Albuquerque, our greenfields of notoriety are Mesa Del Sol -- about 13,000 acres between the Sunport and Isleta Pueblo -- and Westland -- the whopping 55,000 acre former Atrisco Land Grant on the West Side. The developers, Forest City Covington and SunCal, respectively, are salivating over the chance to turn these greenfields into billions of greenbacks -- and they expect to use TIDDs to get as many greenbacks as they can.

The problem? Refer to step 2 above. In a greenfield, the baseline tax revenue is next to nil because nothing is out there. That means the Increment (step 3) is virtually the entire increase in revenue that will come from the District. For Mesa Del Sol, that translates to $500 million greenbacks from the state’s cut of taxes that will be generated in just the first phase of the development. Mesa Del Sol will also get percentages of the City and County’s gross receipts and property tax revenue. All of this cash to a developer for the next 25 years!

For perspective -- this represents the largest TIF arrangement ever allowed, in terms of land area and money, anywhere in the country. Wow. A new chapter in the urban development book, indeed! And a very dangerous one, too!

Dangerous Problems
Why?  First and foremost -- it’s the precedent this sets for how TIF is applied in New Mexico. You think Mesa Del Sol’s deal is big? One only needs to look across the river to SunCal’s 55,000 acres to anticipate TIDDs of even greater magnitude. And, not surprisingly, TIDDs are now popping up in other parts of the state.

So there will be a rush on creating TIDDs! From a state finance perspective, this is a very dangerous precedent. The state general fund, recently bolstered by oil and gas revenue, may soon find itself in a precarious position after millions in revenue from businesses and properties in these districts is captured by TIDDs, first in Mesa Del Sol, and likely by new developments all over. Even with the extra support from oil and gas revenue, the state can’t find enough revenue to meet its current obligations. Transportation funding dried up this year, health care costs continue to rise and we can’t find the money to build schools fast enough or pay enough to retain/recruit high-quality educational professionals. 

Fast forward five years to this likely scenario: The state is strapped for cash -- the economy has slowed and oil and gas revenue declines. Oops! Millions of dollars of revenue needed by the state to cover the public’s shared needs is tied up for the next 20 years in TIDD deals for developers laughing all the way to the bank. Faced with such a predicament, the state must choose to cut back on services, raise taxes or both.

It gets worse. TIDDs in greenfields can really hurt existing neighborhoods, small businesses and any hope of managing growth in sustainable ways. Because TIDDs can be created just on the basis of economic development, there is no limit on their magnitude. Mesa Del Sol will be an economic giant, subsidized with public dollars, competing directly with Albuquerque. As will SunCal’s Westland, only a few notches bigger.

Imagine these areas as huge vacuums sucking jobs, economic activity, homebuyers and vitality out of the existing community. Recall one of the basic principles of the Planned Growth Strategy: to reinvest and revitalize the existing community as a priority over building brand new at the fringe. The PGS pointed to a $1.7 billion backlog in basic infrastructure needs within the city as justification for this approach.

Tell me how diverting the city’s tax revenue to private mega-developers on the fringe will help us address this backlog, when what we currently receive is already not enough? When the city can’t reach a 1000 officer police force because money is tight, how will we find the public safety professionals for these new fringe developments that, combined, are projected to grow the city from 550,000 population to 700,000 or more over the ensuing decades? Never mind all the other services the public expects to maintain a reasonable quality of life.

Oh yeah -- and where is the water?

The Response
By and large, developer requests for TIDDs have sailed through elected bodies at the state and in Albuquerque and the same will likely occur at Bernalillo County. Mesa Del Sol was the first out of the gate securing approval from the City and State for the creation of five TIDDs earlier this year.

With SunCal in the batter's box, West Side City Councilor, Michael Cadigan, was the first to decry “buyer’s remorse” on the Mesa Del Sol deal and he quickly introduced a bill prohibiting the creation of TIDDs in greenfields last Spring. A series of deferrals and compromise drafts have led to final action on his measure at the upcoming  City Council hearing on Monday, December 3rd, 2007.

Many groups including 1000 Friends of New Mexico, SouthWest Organizing Project, New Mexico Voices for Children, and AFSCME strongly favor prohibiting TIDDs in greenfields. 

The development community stands by their arguments that TIDDs are a necessary ‘incentive’ to creating jobs and high-quality “new urbanist” communities. The developers have carefully constructed smoke and mirrors to demonstrate how wonderful and safe TIDDs for their developments will be. They’ve spared no expense hiring the best consultants, lobbyists and PR machines in the business, while placing sizable political contributions in the coffers of key office holders as extra insurance.

The reality is simply that state lawmakers have opened a Pandora’s Box, with little idea of the long-term consequences of allowing TIDDs in greenfields.

What You Can Do
If you are outraged, confused and concerned all at the same time, then you know more than the majority of our lawmakers about the pitfalls of these seemingly harmless acronyms: TIF and TIDD.

Actually, I urge you to express your feelings to your elected officials, starting first with your City Councilor , followed by your Legislators and even the FAIR BlogGovernor.

If you have any questions contact me at 1000 Friends of New Mexico.

Again, please take action by contacting your officials. Urge them to consider the consequences and keep the community’s, not the developers’, best interests in mind.

Gabriel Nims, Executive Director
gabe@1000friends-nm.org
505.848.8232

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog by Gabriel Nims, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of New Mexico. To learn more about this issue, watch KNME TV's show, New Mexico In Focus, this Friday night, November 30, at 7:00 PM, which will include a segment with Gerry Bradley from New Mexico Voices for Children discussing the issue of TIDDs and Councilor Cadiagan's proposed amendment.

Also see these informative posts on SWOPblogger that discuss the local TIDD situation:

• Forest City Covington and SunCal Early Favorites for Corporate Welfare IRBIE Awards
• TIDD's, TIF's, Taxes...We're all in bed with developers now

Guest blogging provides readers with an opportunity to express their views on relevant issues and may or may not reflect our views. If you'd like to submit a piece for consideration as a guest blog, contact me by clicking on the Email Me link on the upper left-hand corner of the page.

Common Cause New Mexico seeks Campaign Manager

From Common Cause New Mexico:
The nonprofit good-government organization Common Cause New Mexico (CCNM) seeks a Campaign Manager to advocate for the Clean Elections initiative appearing on the Santa Fe ballot on March 4. The employment period for this position will extend from the beginning of January through the election. CCNM would like to hear from applicants with a passion for this crucial electoral reform combined with direct experience managing municipal election campaigns. Ideally, the Campaign Manager would be a resident of Santa Fe. Contact CCNM’s executive director Steven Robert Allen at 610-4790 or sallen[at]commoncause.org for details.

NM State Rep. Wirth Requests Galisteo Basin Drilling Moratorium

An article in the Santa Fe New Mexican reports on a letter sent by State Rep. Peter Wirth to Oil Conservation Division Director Mark Fesmire and Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Secretary Joanna Prokop asking them to consider a six-month oil and gas drilling permit moratorium for the Galisteo Basin. A draft of a new Santa Fe County ordinace governing such drilling is scheduled to be released today, but many residents and policymakers want more time to consider how drilling in the area should be regulated.

A moratorium, Wirth wrote, "would give the state time to determine whether oil and gas drilling in this area can be prevented all together ... or if any special stipulations are needed on approved permit applications." Wirth also said in his letter that the moratorium would give Santa Fe County more time to draft and implement its new ordinance.

"My feeling is that we should not rush the process," Wirth said Monday. "The Galisteo Basin has seen such limited oil and gas drilling. I'm concerned things are moving at a real high rate of speed, and I think we should slow down."

The acquisition of 65,000 acres of mineral rights centered in the Galisteo Basin area by Tecton Energy of Houston has caused an uproar among Santa Fe County residents and others who are fearful that extensive drilling will create pollution and other damage. The mineral rights for much of the land in the Basin aren't controlled by those who own the land itself.

Prukop said Monday that New Mexico has never issued a moratorium on oil and gas drilling permits before, though it did issue a temporary moratorium on open-pit mines in Otero Mesa in 2004. She said the division's attorneys are looking at state laws to try to define jurisdictional issues and options. She said she plans to meet with county commissioners after the next public meeting on the subject in December "to figure out a reasonable pathway forward."

... Tecton Energy representatives — who have estimated the basin area holds as much as 100 million barrels of "light, sweet crude" — began pumping oil out of an existing well last spring. But the company will need new permits to carry out its plans to re-enter two plugged wells and drill six more exploratory wells. The county's existing mining ordinance relates primarily to hard-rock mining.

County officials are also concerned about the drilling:

County Commissioner Mike Anaya also wants a moratorium at the county level to stall any drilling applications until the new ordinance is finalized. Anaya is the sponsor of a resolution that will be considered by the commission today, which calls for a three-month moratorium on drilling permits.

... Anaya and Commissioner Jack Sullivan told a crowd of about 500 people at a public meeting in Eldorado on Nov. 15 that the county's draft ordinance would be available for public review today and that written comments on the ordinance would be accepted through Dec. 21.

There was a huge turnout for an 11/15/07 public meeting organized by the Santa Fe County Commission to discuss Tecton's proposed plans, and passions ran high among attendees. Since then, public officials have been deluged with messages from those critical about the proposed drilling:

Wirth said he was prompted to ask for a moratorium in part because of the overwhelming public input he's received on the topic. "The number of e-mails, letters and phone calls I've received, it's really more than almost any issue I've faced since being in the Legislature," Wirth said. "I've not had a single person, constituent or otherwise, contact me in support of this proposition."

Background Information:

From the website of Drilling Santa Fe, a citizen's group working to stop or limit the drilling:

• Online Petition (iPetition.com)- Oil and gas exploration and development permitting moratorium (iPetition.com has a donation button and is only an option and those donations do not go to Drilling Santa Fe). For printing hard copies (pdf)
• The County Attorney is in the process of writing a new oil and gas ordinance to supplement the existing mining ordinance. The ordinance should strengthen, not weaken. On 11/15/2007, there was a public forum about the oil & gas issue. Click here for a newspaper article of the forum and click here about the ordinance process. The draft ordinance is on the BCC amended agenda (click here) under "Matters from the County Attorney."
• Click here for Santa Fe County Mining Ordinance overview flyer (PDF) and click here for the Santa Fe County Land Development Code, which contains the mining ordinance (Chapter 5).
• For upcoming events, click here.
• For an excellent educational website, go to the Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)
• With permission, here are links provided by Tony Bonanno Photography (click here) of the Tecton public presentation (click here) and of the Santa Fe County public forum (click here). Tony says that anyone is welcome to download anything at no charge.

You can read our previous posts on this issue by clicking on these links:

• Join Noted NM Activist and Rancher Tweeti Blancett for a Discussion on Oil and Gas Drilling in Santa Fe County, July 10, 2007
• Grassroots Group 'Drilling Santa Fe' Sets Up Online Petition Drive, July 23, 2007
• Now Available: Video of Tweeti Blancett Event for Drilling Santa Fe, August 6, 2007
• Important Drilling Santa Fe Meeting Coming 8.23.07, August 15, 2007

NM Youth Organized is Hiring Two Coordinators

From New Mexico Youth Organized:
New Mexico Youth Organized (formerly known as the League of Young Voters NM), a community-based organization that works to identify and foster young leaders to realize and wield their power, is seeking to hire two coordinators. Applicants are being sought for an Outreach Coordinator position and a Youth Program Coordinator position for the 1Sky Campaign, a program that will develop and implement a campaign plan for state and local climate change initiatives. The deadline for applications is 5 PM, Saturday December 1, 2007. Click to see the job descriptions and other info about how to apply for these positions (PDFs):

• Outreach Coordinator
• 1Sky Youth Program Coordinator

Have questions? Call Keegan King, New Mexico Youth Organized, 505/385.8760.

Thanks

You may celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional way, replace the turkey with veggie vegan something, protest the holiday's origins or just plain ignore it and watch football or travel down to the Bosque del Apache to see the cranes instead. Any way you roast it, I hope you'll enjoy another experience of Arlo Guthrie's T-Day song, Alice's Restaurant, as you mark the day in your own way.

Here's a video of Arlo from 2005 performing the entire song in concert. When was the last time you heard the 18-minute plus saga about what happened to young Arlo and his hippie friends in Stockbridge, MA on a Thanksgiving long, long ago? The video above is the film's original trailer from 1969, when many of us were suffering through an earlier quagmire war -- but with way fewer gray hairs on our heads, during an eran when Thanksgiving herb meant something other than parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme.

Fore more to ponder, here's the 2007 version of 21 Reasons to Give Thanks by the Think Progress Report:

21 Reasons To Give Thanks

• We're thankful for our country's troops.
• We're thankful the minimum wage has been increased for the first time in a decade.
• We're thankful MC Rove has more free time to work on his dance moves.
• We're thankful Congress has "wasted time" trying to end the war in Iraq. 
• We're thankful radio stations don't play "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
• We're thankful for journalists like Molly Ivins, who was never afraid to "raise hell."
• We're (not) thankful for wide stances.
• We're thankful to Michael Moore, whose documentary SiCKO started a national discussion on health care reform.
• We're thankful people don't call us Buzzy, Cookie, Brownie, or Scooter.
• We're thankful we can now call Al Gore the "Oscar-winning, Emmy-winning, Nobel Prize laureate" former vice president of the United States.
• We're thankful Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales won't visit our bedside if we're sick in the hospital.
• We're thankful not all Dick Cheney's cousins think like he does.
• We're thankful to be considered one of the "ten most dangerous organizations in America."
• We're thankful that visiting the Mall of America isn't really like visiting Iraq.
• We're thankful President Bush isn't giving out any more back rubs.
• We're thankful for 12-year olds who can take down Rush Limbaugh in a fight.
• We're thankful our Halloween costumes aren't very "original."
• We're thankful no one (except the birds) gets hurt when Dick Cheney goes hunting now.
• We're thankful for "phony soldiers" who have the courage to speak out about the war in Iraq.
• We're thankful the "Commander Guy" has only 425 days left in office.
• And last but not least: We're thankful to The Progress Report readers for their tips, energy, and support.

Thanks to You
Finally, thanks to all the readers, commenters and guest bloggers from here and places far away who've driven our daily page hit stats steadily up, up, up since I started this blog back on July 15, 2004 -- some 3,386 posts, 5,617 comments and 313,890 visitors ago and counting. The posts in the early days were rather sporatic, and the visitors few. At the time, I think Joe Monahan was the only other political blogger in New Mexico. Now there are many local bloggers focusing on a variety of angles and targeting a number of niches. By all accounts readership and participation across the board is still growing rapidly.

With a presidential race picking up steam, competitive U.S. House and U.S. Senate contests already garnering national attention and legislative and local elections on the horizon, I can only imagine what the traffic stats will be for New Mexico's blogger community in the coming months. Let's hope we have some election results we can really be thankful about when election day 2008 has come and gone and our troops can finally come home. We've all suffered much too long within the Bush regime's distorted version of reality. Let's hope the worst of our national nightmare ends next November and that next Thanksgiving we can truly be in a hopeful, celebratory mood. Only we can make it happen. Peace.

4th Annual Health Policy Legislative Forum Set for 12/6/07

From the New Mexico Public Health Association:
It's that time again! Time to begin preparing for working with our partners statewide on legislative issues for the 2008 session. Here's a chance to hear what others are planning AND to take advantage of a chance to learn about how the state budget process works or get some basic skills in policy advocacy or media advocacy. This year's Forum is being planned and presented in collaboration with New Mexico Voices for Children. Here's what is happening...

The 4th Annual Health Policy Legislative Forum will be held on Thursday, December 6, 2007, at the CNM Workforce Training Center at 5600 Eagle Rock Avenue NE in Albuquerque. Last year's Forum broke records with over 130 people in attendance. This year's Forum will kick-off with two state legislators speaking about priority health and human services issues for the 2008 legislative session. This will be followed by roundtable discussions for sharing of policy issues and legislative priorities by participants. Lt. Governor Diane Denish has been invited to give the luncheon address regarding health care reform.

The afternoon sessions will include the following:

Behind the Curtain - Demystifying the New Mexico Budget Process: This training will focus on understanding how, when, and where budget/funding decisions are made by the NM Legislature -- with presenters including current and former legislators, state agency staff who are experts in the budget formation and decision process, and NM Voices for Childrens own state budget expert. Space will be limited to the first 75 registrants.

Policy Advocacy 101: What is the legislative process for advocating for health-related issues in New Mexico? How do you communicate with legislators and other policymakers on health care reform? What specific steps do you need to take to promote legislation?

Media Advocacy 101: What is media advocacy and how can we frame our message to the media for successful health policy campaigns? What kind of preparation and planning is needed to be effective? What are the basic tools and rules of accessing the media?

Registration: You can choose to register for the full day, the morning only or the afternoon only. We are offering a discounted registration fee to NMPHA members this year, so take advantage of that! Please see the attached flyer-registration form (doc) for more details and how to register.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you there!

Marsha McMurray-Avila, Executive Director
New Mexico Public Health Association
(505) 715-9004
mcavila.nmpha@comcast.net

12.4.07: Emerge NM Woman of the Year Awards Dinner

Emerge New Mexico
Invites You to join us for the
Woman Politician of the Year Awards Dinner at the
Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
6:00 - 7:00 PM VIP Reception
7:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner, Live Auction & Awards

To honor Women Leaders for A Democratic Future
Lt. Governor Diane Denish,
the life of Justice Pamela Minzner,
& an Emerging Woman Leader
Presidential Silver Sponsors
Bill Marchiondo
Legislative Turquoise Sponsors
Christina Argyres
Anne Bingaman
Karen & Stephen Durkovich
Koob & Ralstin
Ruth Kovnat
McGinn, Carpenter, Montoya & Love
Sutin, Thayer, and Browne
UNM Law Professors

Individual Tickets $100
Individual VIP Tickets $150
Sponsorships $1500 / $2500 / $5000

Please RSVP to contact@emergenm.org or Julie at 505-920-6002. Please contact us to RSVP, to purchase tickets, or to sponsor the Dinner. Mailing Address: emerge New Mexico, PO Box 27207, Albuquerque, NM 87125

Emerge New Mexico inspires, recruits, and trains Democratic women to win elected office. Proceeds from this event will support emergeNM participants in 2008. Emerge New Mexico is a 501c(4) organization. Donations are not tax-deductible. The program application for our 2008 class is now available and can be downloaded . Completed pplications must be mailed to Emerge and postmarked no later than January 15, 2008.

Keep the Pressure On to Save the UNM North Golf Course

Hundreds gathered at the University of New Mexico Law School last Sunday to protest turning UNM's North Golf Course into a "retirement village." They later met with UNM President David Schmidly to express their views. See KOB-TV's coverage and this Flickr group for photos. To keep the pressure on the UNM Regents and others to see the short-sighted nature of their proposed plans for the largest green space in central Albuquerque, please write some letters NOW.

You can see our previous posts on this issue here and here and here.

11.15.07: Public Meeting on Controversial Proposal to Pave Chaco Canyon Entrance Road

Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

A presentation and public comments session regarding the future of the main entrance road to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in Northwest New Mexico will be held on November 15, 2007 at the New Mexico Department of Transportation, 7500 Pan American Freeway NE in Albuquerque (map). An open house begins at 6:00 PM with the presentation at 6:30 PM, followed by a comment session at 7:00 PM. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Federal Highway Administration, the New Mexico Department of Transportation and San Juan County.

The options for improving the unpaved portion of San Juan County Road 7950 will be explained -- a controversial proposal with serious consequences for preserving the fragile integrity of the currently isolated park. Up until now, the main access road was left deliberately unpaved to discourage heavy traffic, large tour buses and large RVs from bringing in increased crowds that might compromise the park's extensive ruins and artifacts -- which have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

URS Corporation and Taschek Environmental Consulting (TEC) are currently preparing the design and environmental analysis for the proposed road project on behalf of San Juan County. If you can't attend the meeting, you can contact John Taschek at TEC at 505-821-4700, email your comments on the proposed paving to taschek@aol.com or mail them to John Taschek, 8901 Adams NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113.

More resources:

• Chaco Canyon (wikipedia)
• Not paving Chaco road preserves area's value, Albuquerque Tribune editorial
• Paving road to Chaco fraught with pitfalls, Albuquerque Tribune
• Stop the Chaco Road, Chaco Alliance
• Protect Chaco Canyon Blog
• San Juan Citizen's Alliance